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Old Bob Its snowing in the mountains and my son and I going up when the weather breaks for a shoot.I ve had my 60 for two months and find keeping detail in wooded hill sides with out blowing out the sky can be tough.Same with shooting rivers and lakes.Something about dynamic range?I had better luck with my old nikon FM and canon A-1..How the he@#$ am I gonna get nice snow images on a clear bright day with all that white snow and still have blue skys?Filters of some kind?I love this 60 so Im gonna work this out.Is the exposure the same on a 1D as the D60?Any advice?Thanks, Bob
 
You have to use some sort of curves if you want to distort the brightness relationship between overly dark and light objects. Are you doing this?

Jason
Old Bob said:
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Old Bob Its snowing in the mountains and my son and I going up
when the weather breaks for a shoot.I ve had my 60 for two months
and find keeping detail in wooded hill sides with out blowing out
the sky can be tough.Same with shooting rivers and lakes.Something
about dynamic range?I had better luck with my old nikon FM and
canon A-1..How the he@#$ am I gonna get nice snow images on a clear
bright day with all that white snow and still have blue
skys?Filters of some kind?I love this 60 so Im gonna work this
out.Is the exposure the same on a 1D as the D60?Any advice?Thanks,
Bob
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In addition to curves, I guess you can do some selective exposure compensation as well. Either way you need to distort the natural ratio of brightness.

jason
Jason Hutchinson said:
Jason
Old Bob said:
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Old Bob Its snowing in the mountains and my son and I going up
when the weather breaks for a shoot.I ve had my 60 for two months
and find keeping detail in wooded hill sides with out blowing out
the sky can be tough.Same with shooting rivers and lakes.Something
about dynamic range?I had better luck with my old nikon FM and
canon A-1..How the he@#$ am I gonna get nice snow images on a clear
bright day with all that white snow and still have blue
skys?Filters of some kind?I love this 60 so Im gonna work this
out.Is the exposure the same on a 1D as the D60?Any advice?Thanks,
Bob
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Polarizing filter!!! It's a must for this type of shot!

-craig amrine
Old Bob said:
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Old Bob Its snowing in the mountains and my son and I going up
when the weather breaks for a shoot.I ve had my 60 for two months
and find keeping detail in wooded hill sides with out blowing out
the sky can be tough.Same with shooting rivers and lakes.Something
about dynamic range?I had better luck with my old nikon FM and
canon A-1..How the he@#$ am I gonna get nice snow images on a clear
bright day with all that white snow and still have blue
skys?Filters of some kind?I love this 60 so Im gonna work this
out.Is the exposure the same on a 1D as the D60?Any advice?Thanks,
Bob
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you could also try photoshop select highlights, dup the layer and multiply to bring out blown out snow. This very shooting example is used in "photoshop - photoretouching secrets by scott kelby on new rider press publishing.
Old Bob said:
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Old Bob Its snowing in the mountains and my son and I going up
when the weather breaks for a shoot.I ve had my 60 for two months
and find keeping detail in wooded hill sides with out blowing out
the sky can be tough.Same with shooting rivers and lakes.Something
about dynamic range?I had better luck with my old nikon FM and
canon A-1..How the he@#$ am I gonna get nice snow images on a clear
bright day with all that white snow and still have blue
skys?Filters of some kind?I love this 60 so Im gonna work this
out.Is the exposure the same on a 1D as the D60?Any advice?Thanks,
Bob
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A polarizer and a 18% gray card helped me to get white white snow and blue blue sky...
Old Bob said:
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Old Bob Its snowing in the mountains and my son and I going up
when the weather breaks for a shoot.I ve had my 60 for two months
and find keeping detail in wooded hill sides with out blowing out
the sky can be tough.Same with shooting rivers and lakes.Something
about dynamic range?I had better luck with my old nikon FM and
canon A-1..How the he@#$ am I gonna get nice snow images on a clear
bright day with all that white snow and still have blue
skys?Filters of some kind?I love this 60 so Im gonna work this
out.Is the exposure the same on a 1D as the D60?Any advice?Thanks,
Bob
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Fred Miranda's DynamicRangeIncreasing Photoshop action sure does a nice job on what you need. You overexpose one image, underexpose the other and paste one on top of the other, and vundaba!!!! you have a great exposed image. ........
Old Bob said:
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Old Bob Its snowing in the mountains and my son and I going up
when the weather breaks for a shoot.I ve had my 60 for two months
and find keeping detail in wooded hill sides with out blowing out
the sky can be tough.Same with shooting rivers and lakes.Something
about dynamic range?I had better luck with my old nikon FM and
canon A-1..How the he@#$ am I gonna get nice snow images on a clear
bright day with all that white snow and still have blue
skys?Filters of some kind?I love this 60 so Im gonna work this
out.Is the exposure the same on a 1D as the D60?Any advice?Thanks,
Bob
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