1. Many many cameras, including DSLR's, are fooled into making WB (and exposure) errors when facing a frame full of snow. The typical errors include underexposure and a very 'cool' WB.
2. Shoot in RAW for best results and use your digital preview with great regularity to ensure quality exposure and a WB 'as close' to 'correct' as possible; I find AWB with the K-5 (and before it, the K-7) to have a fairly good success rate with snow - followed by "Daylight". 3. In LR, your ability to process is infinitely increased by shooting RAW ... the sheer amount of information stored in a 14-bit RAW file out of the K-5 is amazing. This flexibility is especially evident when manipulating WB in LR. 4. Take your 'ink dropper' tool from the WB section of LR - and point it at the closest thing you can find to middle grey (A perfect middle grey will read 50.0 - 50.0 - 50.0 in the RGB figures that change as you roam around the image with your dropper). Find the closest you can, click there (thereby telling LR - "This is what grey looks like dummy!") - and inspect results ... blue snow should be gone for the most part. If it isn't - continue tweaking by manually sliding your Blue/Yellow WB slider to the yellow side. Tweak as you need to for best results. 5. If you are still facing some annoying blue tinting after that, use your color sliders to manually remove saturation from your Blue channel until you are reasonably satisfied. Hope this helps someone as you get your snow shots this year. -- Andrew Allen Freelance Photographer and Writer www.andrewallenphoto.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
