Originally Posted by
Steve Kaluski
What makes you think that Will, perhaps there is a tad more you could extract, but I think the OP looks good
Will, just my take based on the above.
The image was under exposed and confirmed by you and the above screen grab, so you needed to push that Histogram much more to the right so the whites are almost blown, but not quite and exposing for the subject. Even if you blew the BKG I bet in Raw Digger you still would have a third of a stop to go, it's just the camera. With the 1DX you have at least a stop to play with.
For me I get the impression the snow fell the previous day or overnight, with zero wind or disturbance, and so the surface created is more of smooth mounds or slight hillocks, undulations and therefore with flat light, minimal detail. It's the same in skiing, I hate flat light because there is no contrast, all you see is vast expanses of white, no definition, irrespective in the advancements in goggles lenses. You could have tried swopping in camera metering mode, but... years ago you had to meter just off the subject and then go plus 2/3rds or +1 as a starting point, but now no problem, so again if you are shooting in snow you have to break away from what you think Will. If the snow was in part 'broken up' with more depressions then the camera would have pick up the contrast and given you more definition in the snow, but within the capture there is certainly nothing within the OP to pull out.
Would welcome your thoughts. :S3: