Taking snow pictures

[RivaLJ]

I would like to take some photos of the recent snowstorm we just had.
How would I avoid getting gray or bluish snow? It is an overcast day.
How would I set the WB? I have a Siny a300.
Thanks!

 

[spinetnglr]

Set your exposure compensation to + two or three stops. You need to deliberately over expose because the camera is "seeing" more light than is really there because of all the white that it wants to make grey.

 

[JoeDif]

As far as WB, since it is an overcast day you can set it to cloudy or daylight. I beleive Cloudy will warm the light up a bit and daylight will leave some of the blue light in and give it a colder feel. For outdoor photo's I normally leave it at the cloudy setting and make any adjustments in RAW processing.

 

[jann1033]

if you have a custom wb setting you can take a photo of just the white snow (nothing else in it) then put it in there to use when there is snow. it should tell you how to save it in your manual

 

[JoeDif]

if you have a custom wb setting you can take a photo of just the white snow (nothing else in it) then put it in there to use when there is snow. it should tell you how to save it in your manual

Cool idea....I never thought of that

 

[jann1033]

Cool idea....I never thought of that

you probably don't have snow 7 months out of the yr like we can but i originally read it in some article about winter photos so it's not my idea