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Hello Greg, what were the aperture, ISO and shutter speed for this shot?
The shot looks pretty good to me and I don’t see any major technical issues, I’d maybe work on whites and highlights in Lightroom to make it less dull, but I think you captured the scene accurately.
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Added a touch more contrast. Don’t want to overdo it, because the scene was actually kind of dull due to the snow still coming down and the sunrise a few minutes away.
Can you tell the difference? More white-lightening?
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There is something weird here, and I can’t figure out what it is. When I blow this up, really large on my screen, there’s some kind of light-colored filigree pattern allover it. It doesn’t look like rain, ’cause it doesn’t go in straight lines, like I imagine rain would. It’s most evident over the even, dark colored surfaces, like the road, but you can see it all over if you look carefully. I think it would ruin a print. Maybe someone else out there has an idea what it is.
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Blowing snow with a slow shutter speed? It wasn’t raining when this was taken. There was snow coming down, as well as snow being blown off of high branches in bunches.
Suppose I could have increase the ISO to increase the shutter speed so as to freeze the falling and blowing snow.
I’ll wait till next year, if that’s the case. No more snow this spring according the forecast for Central Illinois, USA.
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I think the subtle brightening makes the snow a bit more white rather than grey which is a good thing. The snow steaks are best seen in the pavement area. I wonder if a faster shutter speed ( increasing the ISO) might have caught the snow more as dots or flakes similar to the difference between star trials and stars as points of light?
BTW your neighbor needs to straighten his lamp post!
This is similar to the view I had out my window this morning near Boston, but the snow is gone now. My grand daughters ages 7, 5 and 3 got out for an early morning CC ski in their yard.
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I agree, Frank, I should have increased the ISO so I could freeze the snow. I have a bad habit of getting in a rush to shoot without slowing down and thinking about all the different elements that create a good result. This forum is teaching me much, however.
Enjoy your grand daughters! I don’t regret not having kids, but would love to have grand kids. That way, when I would get in over my head it would be “Here Mom and Dad, you can have them back now.”
Thanks for the comments, Frank.
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I don’t understand the request to limit comments to technical issues to the exclusion of artistic values. The technical choices that the photographer makes are dependent on the artistic values that the photographer wishes to convey. Thus any discussion of technical issues is meaningless unless it is made with knowledge of of the photographers artistic intent. Why was the picture taken? What compelled he photographer to document the scene? Then armed with that knowledge, a discussion of the technical issues the photographer used starts to come meaningful.
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I agree, Gary. I think I will include my intent in future postings. My initial intent here was to capture the early-spring, wet snow transforming my neighborhood. Nothing like a big, lumpy blanket of snow to cover up a multitude of sins, the crooked light-pole notwithstanding.
Having said that, I am relatively new to the technical end of photography, so the technical advice seemed very helpful as well. For example, had I thought about it beforehand, I would have wanted the falling and blowing snow to show up as snowflakes, not directionally-challenged rain.
Thanks,
Greg
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