snow
Any suggestions on getting the right color for snow? It usually looks blue out of the camera, but I haven't yet found the right combination of adjustments for a natural look. Thanks.
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White balance tool? My suggestion for the "right "color for snow: white.
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OK I'll try WB, I don't usually do a lot with it. Yes I know white :), somehow I seem to get more blue or light beige. Thanks.
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When shooting snow in camera, take an image of the white snow and go into the camera settings - where you can set white balance. It should give you the opportunity to set white balance using an image (the one you just show). So the camera knows that is white. Then off you go. If you shoot in RAW, then you can adjust later. If you (god forbid) shoot only in JPG, then you only have limited opportunity to change the white balance.
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Good idea - thanks!
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Of course, snow is rarely fully white even when fresh.
Most cameras using Auto Exposure settings tend to under expose. White Balance may also pick up other light based colour influences based on time of day and weather conditions.
Use Exposure Adjustment (or one of the equivalent tools available) and White Balance to get to a starting point you feel happy with.
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My suggestion for the "right "color for snow: white
wrong ! as with all close to neutral colors color contamination is a big factor I can guarantee you above 2000m on a sonny cloud free day in the alps snow looks in fact blueish and not neutral.
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Well, yes, color contamination is a big factor, but color perception too. What is the "correct" color of a white sheet of paper under incadescent light? Color contamination would answer yellow, color perception would answer: White.
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no I disagree here too when you light a sheet of paper with a candle it does not look white, white balanced it look wrong. same is true for sunsets or other situations with coloured light, our eyes only adapt to a certain level and the environment plays a roll too.
for me snow on a bright sonny day has a slight blueish cast which I can also see with my eyes, when you make snow neutral in such a case it looks dirty. our vision is more complex than a recoding of wavelength. getting snow right is really not easy, to make it look natural you need an artistic approach not a technical one.
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to make it look natural you need an artistic approach not a technical one.
Exactly.
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thanks for all yr ideas! I haven't responded because i couldn't sigh in to my account on chrome & finally used Firefox. I kept getting this:
{"message":"invalid json response body at https://app-co-myaccountspaclientbff-we-live.azurewebsites.net/api/v1/Sso/GetZendeskSsoUrl?redirectUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fsupport.captureone.com%2Fhc%2Fen-us%2Fcommunity%2Fposts%2F4414960518801-snow reason: Unexpected end of JSON input"}0 -
Happy New Year!
I use FF but after a session timeout I also get an error message when I try to sign in again on an open forum tab (probably the same message text, can't check now because the session is still valid).
Login to your C1 account first (in another tab, I have this always open) and then reload the forum page or click "sign in" on the page.
But maybe it is a differnt issue with Chrome.
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Thanks. Back on FF, i can't even log in on another tab with chrome. Never had this issue before. I submitted it to tech support.
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