A photo of the day thread

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amazing sunset Christchurch NO a few minutes agi
 
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By coincidence we have a crystal hanging on the window our lounge is full of rainbows as the sun is streaming through the window & the crystal each rainbow is about 2" long.

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A few from this weekend. Just 2 nights away, locally, to chill out and give the TV a miss. Campsite is "Rivermead" at Weston Colley, just north of Winchester. Nothing more than a few hard-standings, a toilet, fresh water and disposal point...but that's all we needed. The hard-standings have a nice view and there are two superb Pubs about 25 minutes walk away.
Here are the photos from our walk to The Wonston Arms, a fabulous "local".
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@Go Humberto! I just love your photography. Wish I had a decent laptop to download a good photography etc etc programme .. I would mither the life out of you for advice. :)
 
Go Humberto! said:
Did you use a "Snow" white-balance setting on your camera? It's unusual to see actual white snow on someone's photos of snow.
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I wondered why , although it was only around 2pm , it looked a lot later on these photos . Then again we only use an iPhone no fancy lenses etc.
This is Buster doing his best dolphin impression up at Tan Hill Inn on Friday .
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Ralph-n-Bev said:
I wondered why , although it was only around 2pm , it looked a lot later on these photos . Then again we only use an iPhone no fancy lenses etc.
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iPhones probably have a "Snow" setting. It's not about the lens. Even the most expensive cameras don't really know what you are taking a photo of. Because of that they are programmed to have a best guess at what you are photographing. Unless it's a "typical" scene on a summer day then that can tend to make everything rather "average" and mid-grey. Hence snow tends to be blue, dark and ..well...average.

If you tell your camera that it's snowy then it will remove the blue tint, bump up the brightness and bob's your uncle. But you generally need to tell them.

Fellraven's photo is so perfectly exposed and balanced that they either got super lucky, have very intelligent camera software, or they told their camera what to do. I'm guessing the latter.
 
movan said:
@Go Humberto! I just love your photography. Wish I had a decent laptop to download a good photography etc etc programme .. I would mither the life out of you for advice. :)
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Thanks.
If you have a Smartphone then download SNAPSEED. It's amazingly good for putting some "umph" into your photos.
I use it a lot.

In fact, when I'm away from a PC, I send photos from my "nice" camera to my phone and use Snapseed to tweak them before posting on Facebook.

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Go Humberto! said:
iPhones probably have a "Snow" setting. It's not about the lens. Even the most expensive cameras don't really know what you are taking a photo of. Because of that they are programmed to have a best guess at what you are photographing. Unless it's a "typical" scene on a summer day then that can tend to make everything rather "average" and mid-grey. Hence snow tends to be blue, dark and ..well...average.

If you tell your camera that it's snowy then it will remove the blue tint, bump up the brightness and bob's your uncle. But you generally need to tell them.

Fellraven's photo is so perfectly exposed and balanced that they either got super lucky, have very intelligent camera software, or they told their camera what to do. I'm guessing the latter.
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I've downloaded the app . I think I need to play around a bit with it.
This may be fun ! The sky isn't as nice though .
 
There's not a lot you can do once you've captured an image. The camera throws away so much information, when it's done processing, that you can't do much. Increasing brightness means you'll affect other stuff negatively. Here's a hurriedly adjusted copy, making the snow true white and painting in a blue sky. It's ugly but you get the idea. Much better to use the Snow setting in-camera than try to rescue these things after the event.
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Camera manufacturers go to a lot of trouble to provide options to help out. Normally "Auto" does a good job but, if it's cloudy, then try and use the "Cloudy" setting. Snow is just about the most difficult stuff to capture well and using the "Snow" setting is almost always a good idea because it's sooooo bright and sooooo blue that you'll almost always end up with a dull blue/grey result.

I'd be interested to know what camera Fellraven used. If you look at the snow in their image you can see lots of detail, in the trees' shadows as well as the bright snow itself. If that's from a phone then I think I'll go and buy one tomorrow ...because that's incredibly impressive. My guess is that it's a decent camera.

Come on Fellraven..put me out of my misery. What did you use?
 
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