Christmas 2010 was mostly an extended road trip from Houston to Decatur, Illinois. It began with a drive from Houston to Tulsa, to spend the evening celebrating with John (his wife Christi and daughter Sierra) and Lori (her husband Garrett, and their kids Ashley and Austin). Then with Eric and his significant other (Ashley) onboard we battled the holiday traffic to St Louis to pick up Mandi and Marti and then on to Decatur, Illinois to spend Christmas eve and day with Marti's (my wife) family, inluding her older brother Brian and his wife Debie, her mom Betty Watkins and daughter Mandi who flew in via St Louis, with Marti.
During this drive I saw temperatures drop form the 70's in Houston to the 40's in Tulsa to the 20-30's in Decatur. We were blessed with a white Christmas this year as it began snowing Christmas eve and didn't let up until it was time to return home.
Taking pictures with snow is a little difficult just using the automatic features in our cameras. To get the right color tones and exposure for a snow scene, you have to meter on a gray card or meter on the blue sky. In this case, the sky is not a blue, but rather an overcast gray sky. I tried metering on the sky but the image still looked underexposed, so I just added some over exposure with the compensation exposure adjustment on the camera. Wa La!! The snow looks white despite the gray skies. I also had to do the same with some corrective overexposure to get warmer colors for this squirrel having Christmas dinner in a nearby tree. You can also fix these images in photoshop with just minor color correction and everything will look as we saw it when we looked through the view finder.
Well from all of us to all of you, we wish you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!!
Christmas 2010 was mostly an extended road trip from Houston to Decatur, Illinois. It began with a drive from Houston to Tulsa, to spend the evening celebrating with John (his wife Christi and daughter Sierra) and Lori (her husband Garrett, and their kids Ashley and Austin). Then with Eric and his significant other (Ashley) onboard we battled the holiday traffic to St Louis to pick up Mandi and Marti and then on to Decatur, Illinois to spend Christmas eve and day with Marti's (my wife) family, inluding her older brother Brian and his wife Debie, her mom Betty Watkins and daughter Mandi who flew in via St Louis, with Marti.
During this drive I saw temperatures drop form the 70's in Houston to the 40's in Tulsa to the 20-30's in Decatur. We were blessed with a white Christmas this year as it began snowing Christmas eve and didn't let up until it was time to return home.
Taking pictures with snow is a little difficult just using the automatic features in our cameras. To get the right color tones and exposure for a snow scene, you have to meter on a gray card or meter on the blue sky. In this case, the sky is not a blue, but rather an overcast gray sky. I tried metering on the sky but the image still looked underexposed, so I just added some over exposure with the compensation exposure adjustment on the camera. Wa La!! The snow looks white despite the gray skies. I also had to do the same with some corrective overexposure to get warmer colors for this squirrel having Christmas dinner in a nearby tree. You can also fix these images in photoshop with just minor color correction and everything will look as we saw it when we looked through the view finder.
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