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How to get a perfect exposure of a snow covered landscape

March 5, 2009 by Steve Berardi 10 Comments

Photo by Christopher Chan
Photo by Christopher Chan (used under the CC-BY-NC-ND-2.0 license)

Have you ever tried taking photos of a beautiful winter landscape covered in bright white snow? And, did the snow in all your photos end up looking gray, instead of that beautiful white?

The “gray snow problem” is very common, and happens because your camera’s light meter sees everything as neutral gray. When it looks at the bright white snow, it just thinks you’re trying to photograph a gray subject in brighter light, so it underexposes your shot.

Fortunately, there are three easy ways to avoid this problem:
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