Breaking Through Snow

Jillian: Welcome to NPN and to the finest Flora gallery on the planet. This does work for me. I think you handled the exposure well and I really like the shadows. Nicely seen and captured. Great to have you aboard and looking forward to more. >=))>

I struggled with snow covered shots when I first got my SLR camera, compared to other camera's I've used. What I read and also found it to work for me when photographing snow is to brighten the exposure. Your exposure time here is pretty fast so if you slowed it down a little it would allow more light in and brighten up the snow. Careful not to go to much or you'll over expose the snow and lose detail. Practice this a little and maybe it will work for you, it did for me.

I like your use of negative space here Jillian. Welcome to NPN .

David M. Cobb

Nice intimate image. IMO the snow should be whiter - which can be easily fixed in selective color.

Hard to expose the snow in harsh light Jillian, but you did well. Almost looks like sand on a beach. Welcome to Flora, and look forward to future posts. Good job
Bob

I like this Jillian. I think ideally for me the shot would have the plant place more towards the bottom of the image but that's pretty subjective. I use Ligthroom II and would probably make the snow a little whiter using color placement with a gradient filter. Looks like the good news is that you didn't lose any detail by overexposing the shot. Welcome to the gallery. I look forward to seeing more of your work.

Pat

I like snow images of this kind. Very simple. May be a touch to yellow.