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I really like the picture, almost as if they are escapeing or fleeing. It does seem to have a slight green tint to it? Maybe it's just my monitor?
Greg
I am like Barney Fife, I have a gun but Andy makes me keep the bullet in my pocket..
Hmm, Greg your eye may be better than mine.
My eyes see different colours, so colour balance is tricky.
Got to buy a calibration system at FOI this month (don't tell Mrs Wombat).
Well, Greg, you solved the green shade problem but there is still the challenge of shooting in the snow.
As a Canadian, here is what I have found through experience. The lightmeter as everyone knows is set up for middle grey, so since most of the light is coming from the snow, it tries to make the snow into a middle grey colour with texture detail. In doing that it darkens all the rest of the image including clothes, people, branches, forests and even fence posts etc. You can see in this image that the people are underexposed.
The challenge is to get the snow a genuine white colour with no loss of detail, as well as properly exposing the people. There are a number of approaches to doing that but one of the most straightforward is using fill flash. Another is to use a polarizer to minimize glare and contrast and overexpose to make the snow white. Light colour coats and clothing will of course make things easier too. Moving in close or zooming in and taking a spot reading off the person also works.
Post processing to selectively lighten the people and in some cases the background is more difficult to get right and seem natural, without creating artifacts, noise and other problems.
Making matters worse people tend to move fast and are a lot smaller when you look at the photo than the size they seemed to be in the viewfinder. If you are trying to catch expressions move in closer or zoom in more, than what you would expect.
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