Skiing photography issues

[rw86347]

This week I took my Camera skiing for the first time. While skiing I felt like I had taken tons of great photos. At the time I was wearing amber goggles. Once I got home I realized that color was not quite right. I think the AWB was some how off.

I adjusted the WB within LR and found that when the sky was as blue and I remembered then so were the shadows.

I read online that others suggest setting the white balance to 5700K. I tried this in LR which seemed to help the snow but it also washed out the sky.

How can I keep the sky deep blue and the snow white?

Any suggestions?

 

[12sndsgood]

adjust each seperatly.

 

[runnah]

have any examples? 5700k is an awfully warm WB.

 

[KmH]

If the photos are JPEG files, because JPEG is limited to an 8-bit color depth you won't be able to correct them as well as you could 12-bit or 14-bit depth Raw files.

 

[Tony S]

Enable opening the jpeg images in the RAW editor, you get a little more room to adjust them but not as much as a RAW file.

 

[skieur]

The approach I use is a graduated neutral density filter to prevent the sky from being washed out along with exposure compensation of +1 stop to bring the colour of the snow up from grey to white.

skieur