We are having a little bit of a snow storm. I walked to the river at the end of our block. My hands were freezing so I had to take a couple shots & go home before my fingers fell off. I took a lot of unusable shots but I thought with a little processing this one was ok.
I know you should NEVER use flash, EXCEPT when you want the snow that is falling to show up.
Finally snow! Hope to get it next week in NL. I understand your debating about deleting. But it's interesting breaking rules sometimes. Indeed for e.g. getting the snow visible.
The other technical interesting thing in this photo is, that using a flash, the white balance / color temperature goes to 5500 degrees Kelvin (normal daylight). You can see that here bottom right, where you have natural colors in the water bank. Because of the small range of your internal flash, the area out of range gets extra blue, what is good for the cold effect now. Having used no flash, the automatic white balance would have seen there's no daylight, but shade, and jumped to a cold color temperature, giving a more natural but less blue effect. So with a flash you can achieve cold effects in outdoor situations.
This is beautiful!!! And thank you for the tip about the flash!!! I took pics this week and I wanted to capture the snowflakes but didn't use flash cause I didn't know...hence, no flakes in my pics! :)
Thank you all SO MUCH for all your comments & feedback! Also, thank you for all the FAV's too! I guess I should be pretty good at the Breaking the rules shots since I think I do that sometimes without even knowing it!
The other technical interesting thing in this photo is, that using a flash, the white balance / color temperature goes to 5500 degrees Kelvin (normal daylight). You can see that here bottom right, where you have natural colors in the water bank. Because of the small range of your internal flash, the area out of range gets extra blue, what is good for the cold effect now. Having used no flash, the automatic white balance would have seen there's no daylight, but shade, and jumped to a cold color temperature, giving a more natural but less blue effect. So with a flash you can achieve cold effects in outdoor situations.
Thank you all SO MUCH for all your comments & feedback! Also, thank you for all the FAV's too! I guess I should be pretty good at the Breaking the rules shots since I think I do that sometimes without even knowing it!