Titus213 wrote in post #16676247
You are certainly welcome to shoot any way you want. On this one you appear to have gotten a correct exposure although I would like to see the full frame. My advice is not to rely on one time experience but to trust the collective wisdom of years of photography by thousands, if not millions of photographers and use exposure compensation when shooting snow scenes. It's proven science. And has been for more years than I expect you've lived.
But, and this is a valid but, I have just been shooting birds in the snow. I use a 7D and have been using spot metering for the birds and the occasional squirrel. Assuming I have done my job correctly, the spot meter will ignore the snow and meter off the bird. This will give the correct exposure for the subject but the snow will be a bit bright.
You are certainly welcome to shoot any way you want. On this one you appear to have gotten a correct exposure although I would like to see the full frame. My advice is not to rely on one time experience but to trust the collective wisdom of years of photography by thousands, if not millions of photographers and use exposure compensation when shooting snow scenes. It's proven science. And has been for more years than I expect you've lived.
But, and this is a valid but, I have just been shooting birds in the snow. I use a 7D and have been using spot metering for the birds and the occasional squirrel. Assuming I have done my job correctly, the spot meter will ignore the snow and meter off the bird. This will give the correct exposure for the subject but the snow will be a bit bright.
I didn't realize I had been bucking the conventional wisdom on this one all these years. Most of the time things seem to work out. I shoot raw, that seems to give you a fair amount of latitude in exposures, maybe I'm fixing a few of these from time to time without realizing the reason.
