Snowy and Hoarfrosted Landscapes Reflect Sky Light and Colors, so, at Sunset and Sunrise the Show is Sure; Smrekova Draga, Trnovski Gozd, Northern Coastal Karst-Dinaric Region, Slovenija
18-February-2025
Unfortunately, due to the GW, these shows have become increasingly occasional and brief even in these areas that were originally among the coldest and wettest in Europe, during the cold semester; one more reason to exploit the few favorable phases with the right timing.
Ice crystals (snow and frost, sublimation of water vapor, not black ice, solidification of it) have an original color (wavelength) pure white, which makes it an almost perfect mirror (albedo 9 out of 10) in reflecting primary lights and colors.
Snow must be made bright even with a gray sky and this is a difficulty that the photographer must overcome with his experience of photographing snowy landscapes, because the eye always sees fresh snow brilliant, while the camera tends to grayish monochromatism in the aforementioned conditions.
The true color of snow is completely visible when it is illuminated by a pure white light, that is, the sun in the heart of a sunny day, otherwise it is colored by what it reflects, so in the shaded areas with blue sky it tends to have clear bluish shades, while at sunset it follows the warm lights of the sun.
If the sky is colored in a variety of ways, especially at sunset and dawn with a variably cloudy sky, as in this photo, even the snowy environment takes on a greater color and the visual impact becomes more intense compared to a shot in the same place with the same snow but in the heart of the day with a gray sky, as in the 2 previous photos.
The difficulty is always in being able to make the snow as bright as the eye sees it, limiting the aberrations of the camera.
Snowy and Hoarfrosted Landscapes Reflect Sky Light and Colors, so, at Sunset and Sunrise the Show is Sure; Smrekova Draga, Trnovski Gozd, Northern Coastal Karst-Dinaric Region, Slovenija
18-February-2025
Unfortunately, due to the GW, these shows have become increasingly occasional and brief even in these areas that were originally among the coldest and wettest in Europe, during the cold semester; one more reason to exploit the few favorable phases with the right timing.
Ice crystals (snow and frost, sublimation of water vapor, not black ice, solidification of it) have an original color (wavelength) pure white, which makes it an almost perfect mirror (albedo 9 out of 10) in reflecting primary lights and colors.
Snow must be made bright even with a gray sky and this is a difficulty that the photographer must overcome with his experience of photographing snowy landscapes, because the eye always sees fresh snow brilliant, while the camera tends to grayish monochromatism in the aforementioned conditions.
The true color of snow is completely visible when it is illuminated by a pure white light, that is, the sun in the heart of a sunny day, otherwise it is colored by what it reflects, so in the shaded areas with blue sky it tends to have clear bluish shades, while at sunset it follows the warm lights of the sun.
If the sky is colored in a variety of ways, especially at sunset and dawn with a variably cloudy sky, as in this photo, even the snowy environment takes on a greater color and the visual impact becomes more intense compared to a shot in the same place with the same snow but in the heart of the day with a gray sky, as in the 2 previous photos.
The difficulty is always in being able to make the snow as bright as the eye sees it, limiting the aberrations of the camera.