What to do about green snow?

mikedon DeleteThis @mc.net (Mike) wrote in


> Can you folks tell me what I am doing wrong?
>
> I'm just getting started with digital photography using a Nikon
> Coolpix L4 camera. I took some pictures of a recent snowfall and the
> pictures all showed greenish snow. Sky was very overcast but bright.
> I was using the "scene" setting for snow.
>
> So what is going on?

Sounds like a "white balance" problem. Your camera has no firm idea of
what color anything you're shooting actually is and makes assumptions
based on what it thinks the light source is. Light through clouds is a
different color from sunlight, which is different again from
incandescent, which is different again from fluorescent.

Sounds like whatever mode you had your camera in didn't work for the
light you had. Many cameras have a "cloudy" light balance setting in
addition to "automatic" and "daylight"; maybe that would work better.

Of course, since you know that snow is white even if your camera
doesn't, you could use that to "teach" your camera what setting to use
if it has that feature.

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