'Snow Grasses'

One of the features of digital photography is colour management - or rather achieving a neutral colour.

Film virtually always renders some form of 'colour temperature cast' because it reacts to the colour temperature of the light, which is rarely exactly the same as the film. This is a key advantage once you understand it and can exploit it because you can use it to good effect in your image making.

This is the reason why I photograph using 'daylight' white balance on digital. Auto white balance neutralises the colour of light and removes the photographer's creative control.

In this case, however, the neutrality I can achieve using digital technology is critical to the success of the image. The last time I tried to re-make an image similar to this one on LF, the blue sky created a blue colour cast on the snow. Here the combination of a cloudy sky and exploiting the colour temperature reading of the camera has guaranteed a 'white' white.

Technical Details: D2X, 85mm Perspective Control lens with the lens tilted forward. Auto white balance.

Location: Rannoch Moor, Scotland

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