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Shiny Snow - Cameras vs the Human Eye

rs-eos — Mon, 21 Feb 2022 23:45:46 GMT

Back in January of this year, we had a decent amount of snow already on the ground and the next day lots of freezing rain.

During a drive the following day, the landscape looked awesome. Especially once in a while based upon the direction you would look to along with the sun's angle.

When back home later in the afternoon, I captured the following. Played with a circular polarizer as well to attempt to get something as close as possible as to what I saw. Came close, but the human eye still wins 🙂

Re: Shiny Snow - Cameras vs the Human Eye

FloridaDrafter — Thu, 24 Feb 2022 05:49:50 GMT

There is a butterfly in our area called a Gulf Fritillary that has what appears to the eye to have silver spots, not always, but a lot of the times. But I have never been able to photograph one where the spots actually look silver in the photo. They always come out white even though when I pull the trigger, they are silver 😁

Newton

Re: Shiny Snow - Cameras vs the Human Eye

normadel — Sat, 26 Feb 2022 17:18:52 GMT

Do you mean you'd like your camera to produce a "metallic" image? Can't do that. Best you'd get is white or some shade of gray, depending on light intensity.

Re: Shiny Snow - Cameras vs the Human Eye

FloridaDrafter — Sat, 26 Feb 2022 18:24:41 GMT

@normadel wrote:
Do you mean you'd like your camera to produce a "metallic" image? Can't do that. Best you'd get is white or some shade of gray, depending on light intensity.

Not particularly, I was just posting another example of how the human eye usually wins. But you can use reflections to come close to shiny metal, like polished silver or chrome.

Ricky did a great job capturing the ice and snow.

Newton

Re: Shiny Snow - Cameras vs the Human Eye

normadel — Sat, 26 Feb 2022 18:56:10 GMT

A polarizer can also be of benefit to show the varying reflections of metal surfaces.