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How do I tooked photo? Anonymous
So, I was up at Mammoth Mountain this winter, and I never got around to posting the photos I got.

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>> Anonymous
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>> Anonymous
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>> Anonymous
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>> Anonymous
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>> Anonymous
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>> Anonymous
youve got some pretty nice action-y shots. the cropping can use some work though. some of them seem overly cropped and its like im seeing the picture through a tiny slit. also, maybe less pictures where the sun is shining right into the lens? the sun right there makes it really hard to expose correctly.
>> Anonymous
>>44507
thanks for the tips.
>> Anonymous
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I'm not sure if you killed them with postprocessing or what, but they are all overexposed! Next time check for blown highlights in your LCD and then set the exposure compensation to match it.

Also you need to be closer to what your taking a pic of, (or zoom in more) You might think keeping the background around your subject is a good idea, but 90% of the time you won't care about it afterwards) Get up close and take shots where the entire rider might not even be in the pic, those are the pics people think look good.

Picture related (I took it in March)

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>> Anonymous
>>44553
you are aware that snow is almost pure white, and usually over 50% of these pictures are snow, hence the over-exposure
>> ac
>>44852
Yes. That's what exposure compensation is for. You don't have to blindly accept what your meter tells you is the correct exposure, and this is one of the classic cases where you need to adjust it.
>> heavyweather !4AIf7oXcbA
>>44853
ac's right. Rule of thumb for snow is to underexpose by two whole stops. If your skiier or boarder is too dark as a result, dodge him a little bit. But don't overexpose the snow, it's way too easy to do.
>> Anonymous
>>44865
I've found that underexposing by 1 or 2 stops is also a good idea for theater photography. Depending on whether your light meter is spot-focusing or sampling from the whole frame, the bright theater-lamp lit foreground is overexposed compared to the black background if you leave it to the meter's discretion.