Exposure question

[davidlc]

What exposure would I use in photographing snow. Have a Canon XSI. Any help and advice appreciated.

[ldelacruz]

Try to use the correct exposure when photographing snow. Sorry, I couldn't resist!

[davidlc]

[shiladityab]

take the exposure reading using your camera, then over expose it by one or two stops. The "white" of the snow (or sand) usually fools the metering system, so the "suggested" exposure is lower than the one needed to capture the "whiteness".
Hope it helps.

[davidlc]

Thanks for the response. I'll go out and shoot see what happens.

[XoZe]

What I've read is that you can expose for the sky which is darker. Once you have that exposure, disregard the reading the camera is giving you when you compose for the snow.

[Lori Kelso]

Remember that when you're metering something white, that what the camera thinks it's seeing is a mid-gray. As stated by a previous poster, set your meter to overexpose by a stop or two Just the opposite for metering off of something black. Again, the camera see's it as mid-gray, so to get the black to look black instead of gray, underexpose by a stop or two. It's the easiest way I can remember, hope it helps you too!