Skiing trip disaster

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Hi everyone i just came back from skiing in canada and everytime i tried to get good pics on the slopes the results were disapointing i just could not get qanythin right, the pictures didnt look sharp they were dull and not eye catching.

I was using a canon 450 d with a standard 18-55mm lens and a ef 75 -300mm f/4-5.6 III usm lens. Is their any techniques or pieces of equipment i need to capture my friends and other people skiing????
 
Did you shoot in RAW? If so, you could adjust the exposure and get your snow nice and white and then you may deal with the dull look.

The camera will meter snow at 18% grey on a normal exposure, so you need to over expose to get the white.
 
RAW and Jpeg are both formats used for taking pics. I am guessing then that you probably have been using the Jpeg format?

RAW is kind of similar to the negative and a Jpeg is more of a finished print - Probably a crap analogy. With RAW you can alter exposure, contrast etc and then 'process' the pic with those settings later.

Hope that helps and hope I haven't confused you!
 
Post some pictures here. With exif data if possible.
It will be easier to give you tips if we can see what the problem is
 
hey sorry, not quite sure what your experiance is, but where you shooting manual? or letting the camera deal with exposer?
from my limmited experiance (total of about 4 weeks shooting on snow, so dont take what i say to seriously), the camera finds it very hard to expose, with all the bright shinny surfaces and dark skiers/trees... for me, manual exposure was the only way i could get results i was pleased with.
 
A big problem with shooting against principally white backgrounds is the camera's metering. Essentially the camera expects the average intensity of a shot to be around an average of neutral grey so meters a shot with this expectation, hence if faced with a bright white scene the metering will try to make the shot look grey, ie dull and underexposed vs what you were expecting. (just realised Sara actually pointed this out above!)

The workaround is to either use spot metering if you have a specific target you're shooting or to add +1 or so of positive exposure compensation. This could been done after shooting if you take Raw shots and didn't add it at the time of capture.
 
thanx for all the help and i cant put photos up at the moment because my brother has the memory card on holiday he cant be bothered to by his own :) i will put them up shortly
 
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