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Just a quick question, I'm heading to the lake district walking next week and its likely to be pretty snowy! I only have my Fuji X10 but would live some tips to get the best of my landscapes :)
 
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Ferj said:
Just a quick question, I'm heading to the lake district walking next week and its likely to be pretty snowy! I only have my Fuji X10 but would live some tips to get the best of my landscapes :)
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Not really my area of expertise but I would say the main things to be aware of are exposure and white balance. As snow tends to be bright white the camera often tries to compensate which usually results in under exposure making the snow look grey / blue.

Take an exposure reading and dial in a stop of positive compensation as a starting point, you may need a few trial and error shots to make sure the snow being captured as white.

And most importantly of all..... Never eat yellow snow! :bonk:
 
Make sure your snow looks white with some positive exposure compensation but keep an eye on your histogram to make sure you don't go too far and blow the highlights. White balance is pretty easy as you can use the snow as a reference.

Other things to watch include your batteries lasting less time in very cold weather, keep spares warm close to your body to get the best from them.
 
Thanks for the tips will keep batteries close and shoot manual + compensation. Be interesting to try the EXR mode as its normally very good.
 
In some cases autofocus will hunt if there isn't a good contrast - a bit like a sheet of water so may need to go manual.
Will echo the points about beware of under-exposing which will happen if you rely on the onboard metering and even the histogram - you generally want to be over-exposing according to that by one stop or more.
 
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