Cyclist in the snow Svetlana Volkova

摘要

I HAVE included Svetlana's snow scene so we can begin thinking about how we will deal with the snow of our own. It can't be too far away! Svetlana used -0.3EV exposure compensation here, which seems quite the opposite of what we might usually do. Camera metering systems would usually look at a snow scene, see lots of brightness, and close down, making the snow a dirty grey. With the exposure compensation i should think that grey was very dirty, and that she has had to do some work to lift the image. And work she has, increasing the contrast and brightening the tones to the point where the highlights have burned out and the noise from an image shot at ISO 200 is very noticeable.