The other day when i went and shot a roll of tri-x 400 film and today i developed the roll and found out that i didn't expose for the snow!
So why is exposing for the snow important?
The lightmeter on a camera tries really hard to give you a good exposure but snow plays a nasty trick by being really bright which results in pictures where the snow is grey instead of being white.
In my case my Canon A-1 is from the late 1970:s and it has only one light metering mode (center weight), as a comparison a modern dslr has four different ways of metering light!
Thankfully center weight metering mode is easy to use and as long as you remember to adjust the exposure the result will be great!
So as a "this happens when you fail" example here is two images that show how badly underexposed some of the photos ended being for me:
So the next time you go out for some snow photography make sure to go into your camera settings and overexpose the image and you will see that snow will look white and not gray!
What is your experience when using a film slr and compensating for the snow?
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