A MOOSE

Forkie · Feb 23, 2011

RedWylder said:
Crap! I guess I really don't know how to photograph (edit) snow. On my original it's reallllllly blue.

Check your white balance. You may have accidentally nudged it onto Tungsten or Fluroescent which will both make it look blue.

RLM · Feb 23, 2011

If go looking for moose to shoot in the spring be careful. They are extreemly dangerous. They are territorial and aggressive and will charge chase follow and attempt to kill you.

But if you live in an area where you actually got a pic of one then you probably know how they are.

altitude604 · Feb 23, 2011

If you're editing in Lightroom, what I've been doing recently is using the manual whitebalance dropper and finding the whitest bit of snow (that's not blown out) i can and setting the WB from that. usually works pretty good. then just tweak it from there.

RedWylder · Feb 23, 2011

Forkie: I believe you're right. I didn't have enough time to look at my settings before he'd leave so I just shot with whatever it was in last.

RLM: I've never been personally charged by a moose but I've heard all the stories. Thankfully I was just driving past this one in my car. Generally they don't charge cars (at least I haven't heard of this).

Altitude: Ok so I've seen that dropper thing but I'm not sure how to use it. When I get a chance I'll do some googling to see what the inter-web has to say about it.

altitude604 · Feb 23, 2011

RedWylder said:
Altitude: Ok so I've seen that dropper thing but I'm not sure how to use it. When I get a chance I'll do some googling to see what the inter-web has to say about it.

Basically, when your image is up in LR... you click the dropper and then you select the pixels that you want to use for the White Balance. You'll see a little grid window open by the dropper so you can precisely see what you're selecting; as well as the preview of the image will change as you move the dropper around so you can instantly see the results.