Thursday, December 16, 2010

Gray Christmas?

It’s supposed to be White Christmas not Gray Christmas, then why is it when you take a photo of snow it looks gray and dark. Your camera is programmed to average out the dark areas and the light areas and make them gray. When you take photos of snow or hockey where there is a lot of white in the photo the camera will make it gray. With point and shoot cameras that have a “snow scene” setting, set it to that and the camera will know that you are wanting your snow to look white. If you have an SLR look in your manual for “exposure compensation” and set it to +1 and this will tell the camera to adjust the exposure to make the photo brighter.