By the time I got home this afternoon, the sun had gone behind our hillside, and even adjusting my camera's somewhat finicky ISO and less finicky white balance, my photos were blue.
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| Not exactly optimal, even with in-camera adjustments. |
There are a number of ways to deal with the blue of snow, most of which end up making the images look a little off. Since these photos were quite blue, I decided I'd just go with purposely stylizing the photos.
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| Interesting; it doesn't grab me, but it's not blue! |
I played around with a bunch of free presets that I have, and while you'll see the results of some of them in later photos, I ended up creating my own preset, where I warmed things up quite a bit. It's still rather stylized, but it does capture the 'alpineglow' and the snow is fairly snowy looking. And it was a good experiment in creating presets.
Here are a few other tweaked photos. Yes, they are stylized, but since that was the point, I'm okay with it, and rather like some of them.
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| A 'gritty' version of my Alpenglow preset. |
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| Something out of a 1950's Japanese monster movie! |
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| More Alpenglow |
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| More old photo, less Godzilla... |
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| Yep, more Alpenglow - I like it when I want to have some sky/mountains in the background. |
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| Pink tongue and pink frisbee! |
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| Surprisingly accurate coloring. |
For those of you who are saying, "Gee, I don't see the problem with your ISO setting - it looks fine to me," let me just say that on the web the photos look fine, but when I 'pixel peep' (blow them up to full size) they are very grainy and lack a lot of definition. So they are fine for web posting, and okay in printing 8x10s (although not spectacular), but nothing more than that. But, I'm really not complaining - it was a good excuse to use some of the presets I have and experiment with making my own.
Day 322/365.
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