[LargeFormat] Snowy Landscapes

[Pam Niedermayer]

If you want the snow to look like snow and detail in the shadow, take
a reading of your palm in shadow, open one stop (or of a zone V gray
card, which reading you can use directly without opening). Then you
may want to warm up the blue shadows a bit, so use a filter,
incorporate the filter factor. Since Provia is color transparency
film, if and only if the sun is out, you can close down a stop to gain
additional saturation.

Pam

grees@bucks.net wrote:
> 
> In the UK it has been snowy the last few days and I have been out with
> my Pacemaker Speed graphic 4x5 shooting 100ASA Provia using a Weston
> Master IV for metering - the question is how much should I bias the
> exposure for a snowy scene?  I'd been guessing about +2 stops but unlike
> 35mm braketing is not practical - any general rules of thumb?
> 
> Regards and Thanks
> 
> Gareth Rees
> 
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