blue snow

[madhg]

Snow in shade under blue sky can come out _very_ blue:

http://www.griffel.eclipse.co.uk/rotspitze-1.jpg
http://www.griffel.eclipse.co.uk/mntns.jpg

Does the snow in the foreground look right to you? To me it looks too blue, though I don't think the camera is lying. Would you try to tone it down? These pictures in any case need editing, but I'd like to make my mind up on the blue issue first, with your help.

[Leighow]

HI:

It has been too cold for my G2 this month. But last year I ran into the same blues -- and a lack of yellow-- that you are describing, etc.

1: I certainly did not recall seeing these excessive blues -- and a lack of yellow -- with my film/slide SLR and that includes shots skiing Aspen, etc.

2: I now beleive that my eyes see a lot more blue in the sun and snow than they every did before the G2. So, I now accept the fact that the brain may be playing a part here too!

3: I have a lovely oil painting of a mountian top snow scene in Western Canada. For a certain sun-lite portion of the painting the artist has overlayed both blue and yellows -- so these colors have big role to play

3: On close, snow -- IMHO -- should be grayer. I used to reduce the Blue or Cyan... now I tend to leave the hue & saturation alone, and just turn down the lightness. I have not found a solution for the yellows.

HOWIE

[thewhitenite007]

OOOOO sooo close. If you waited another 10-20 minutes it would have been perfect. The sun would have been bright orange on the mountains and it would have been darker too.

[JohnMN]

The colour of light changes throughout the day. In the early morning it is red/orange and as it goes into afternoon it turns blue and then back to a red/orange in the evening just before sunset (that is presuming the sun is shining!). Can you remember what the white balance settings were on your camera that day?

JohnMN

[madhg]

JohnMN wrote:
Can you remember what the white balance settings were on your camera that day?

Auto white balance on G2. I've never changed the WB settings, preferring to correct balance during picture editing.

The sunlit parts of the scene, and the sky, are the "right colour" in the pictures. I can only conclude that if the snow in shade was the same colour as the sky in the image, it was the same colour in real life.

David

[jallan]

looks like you metered for highlight exposure and didn't do anything for shadow.