Your camera is lying to you with snow on the ground
Bright white snow
Dark trees
A pale winter sky
If you’ve tried photographing scenes like this, you’ve probably noticed the same thing:
the snow blows out, the shadows go dark, and the photo doesn’t look anything like what you saw.
Most people assume this is a winter problem.
It’s not !!!
This happens anytime there’s a big difference between highlights and shadows — snow, sunsets, fall color, bright skies. Your camera has to choose what to expose for, and it usually guesses wrong.
The fix isn’t better gear.
It’s telling the camera what you want to preserve.
One of the simplest ways to do that is exposure bracketing — a feature built into almost every modern camera, but rarely used well.
I created a video of me in the field and I show exactly how I set it up.
👉 Watch the walkthrough here
👉 Read Step By Step instructions on my blog
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