How do you take good photo's of ice?

[orion]

In about 30 minutes, I'm heading to an outdoors ice skating rink and I would love to have some great pictures with people in them (if you see my DevArt page you'll understand). I have already attached my polarizer and ND filter (for some nice motion blurs). Is there anything specific to remember for taking pictures of ice or should I just shoot normally and see how it comes out? Thanks in advance!

 

[ksmattfish]

See any post about shooting in snow.

Remember that your meter is trying to make everything middle gray. If there is a lot of white ice in the viewfinder when you or the camera takes a reading, then the photo will probably be underexposed.

Set camera to overexpose by a stop or two. Or meter off something middle gray.

 

[orion]

Thank you very much! I managed to do like what you and the snow topics said and it came out great.

Not much ice in here but this is one where the 2 stop overexposure produced something I really like.

 

[ksmattfish]

Yeah, that exposure looks really good.

It doesn't always work, but if you find yourself in a tricky lighting situation, meter off something white, and add 2 stops, or meter off something black (I like to do this), and subtract 2 stops.

 

[tr0gd0o0r]

Is this process of metering off of something white Necessary with digital cameras? Cuz I know they have auto white balance, how effective is it at fixing those normal problems w/ film

 

[photobug]

trog- even with AWB the meter can still get fooled by high contrast scenes.

The shot of the front yard with the sun shining I posted last week is 2 stops off what the meter said.