Patman Posted January 7, 2011 Share #1 Posted January 7, 2011 Advertisement (gone after registration) I plan on doing some shooting today or tomorrow with my M8, landscape shots either with my 21mm or 35mm. I want to keep the the ISO down to between 160 -300 and what I'm looking for is a suggestion for an EV setting. I've been using -1/3 and not so sure I'm happy with it. I don't have a lot of time to experiment I have bad knees and getting out in this weather kills me so I don't like do overs. Anyone got some suggestions? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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andybarton Posted January 7, 2011 Share #2 Posted January 7, 2011 You need to "over expose" by one or two stops in snowy conditions. It won't take you more than 5 minutes to experiment to find the right setting for the amount of snow where you are. This is true of all cameras and all media of course, not just digital. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaapv Posted January 8, 2011 Share #3 Posted January 8, 2011 If you are using a fixed -1/3rd setting and AE in general, you are certainly not getting the best out of your camera. I would advise you to read up on exposure. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
beewee Posted January 8, 2011 Share #4 Posted January 8, 2011 I normally just shoot full manual exposur and just try to keep the highlights towards the right of the histogram without over exposing. You can then post process it later to make it look the way you want, while retaining most of the shadow detail. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaapv Posted January 8, 2011 Share #5 Posted January 8, 2011 That is correct, as long as you push the specular highlights off the righthand side of the histogram (that is blow them out -they are specular highlights after all) at ISOs above 1250. That way you'll avoid getting noise in your image. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ishkra Posted January 8, 2011 Share #6 Posted January 8, 2011 I'm not sure if this is the best setting, but recently i've been taking a lot of pictures on the snow settings from - 1/3 EV to -1 EV and it was correct. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ptarmigan Posted January 9, 2011 Share #7 Posted January 9, 2011 Advertisement (gone after registration) In these sort of conditions I'd set exposure manually - though to be honest I shoot with manual exposure 95% of the time anyway. Also a good trick is to shoot raw+jepg and set to B&W so you get a better tonal representation than with just the histogram alone. obviously the jpeg will be B&W though. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikael Siirilä Posted January 9, 2011 Share #8 Posted January 9, 2011 I've been using a hand-held meter in snowy conditions. The M8 metering does not help and estimating is tricky when your eyes get used to the snow. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
farnz Posted January 10, 2011 Share #9 Posted January 10, 2011 I'm not sure if this is the best setting, but recently i've been taking a lot of pictures on the snow settings from - 1/3 EV to -1 EV and it was correct. ... Sorry, Fabio, the snow looks grey and underexposed to me. Pete. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ishkra Posted January 10, 2011 Share #10 Posted January 10, 2011 Sorry, Fabio, the snow looks grey and underexposed to me. Pete. yes that's famous "italian grey snow" Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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