Snowy Roses and Fall Leaves

by John O'Keefe-Odom

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Photos made after some recent snows; leaves from this past fall. One of my favorites was the snow that had built up on the roses.

The blue tone to the photo came from setting the digital camera's white balance to tungsten; the images were later post-processed at the same temperature as daylight color film (5600K). This brought a touch of yellow back into the lighting scheme.

The ambient light was an intermittent yellow sunlight; the sun was emerging from behind the clouds after things warmed up after a night of snow. The yellowish color of the morning sunlight would negate some of the blue effect generated by recording the image as tungsten.

Eventually I settled on an exposure that had part of the area in shade (bluish) and part of the area in morning sun (closer to normal appearing white balance). As a sample, the photos below were all made at the same location, within a few moments of each other, with the same camera settings. You can see how the blue's influence varied with the presence or absence of the yellow morning sun.

The "Snowy Rose" photo that begins the slideshow was cut from the middle frame, below.

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