Day to be inside!

The storm outside makes one appreciate the warmth of home.Thank you

for your comment-Laurent

Well captured, slightly under exposed snowscape. You camera metering system, never right on snow. It is a practice to over expos the snowy landscape a full or even 2 full stop the get the snow right.

The attached images has some artifacts corrected, like "cloning". And slightly increased the lightness. IMHO.

I get this stupid message, "502 Bad Gateway" and locked out of PN for an hour.

I try to attach two image here.

And my idea. IMHO.

I like, in Bela's revision, "rev-2s", the emergence of a little more detail in the foreground and the idea of brightening the image for whiter snow--but possibly not quite as bright. In the original, I prefer the lower contrast and less sharp detail in the top half of the picture. I have seen this flattening of tone and softness of detail when there's enough blowing snow; and I think that handling contrast and detail this way conveys the mood of the scene effectively.

This picture provokes thought and communicates the mood of the scene for me. Thank you Laurent for sharing.

Thank you for viewing and for the observation.You are right that working with snow is rather tricky,more so when working with blowing snow as here which really cuts into the light.Looking at your suggestion,I realized I had let a greenish tint creep in the tone and I went back to retune it and in order to get closer to actual tone,I desaturated it slightly and raised the mid-tones also very slightly and arrived at what I remember as being how it was.How does this one look to you? PS-I work with a very basic program and equally basic skills.

Meilleures salutations-Laurent

Thank you also for viewing and for commenting this one.As you point out,upping the contrast would highlight the dirty snowbanks in the foreground but unrealistically in this case as the intensity of the storm was such that although visible,it was barely distnguishable.I have uploaded in my note to Bela a reworked copy and would appreciate your take if you please.

Merci et meilleures salutations-Laurent

Editing a small .jpg image always destroy some pixels and add noise. My image was a demo only, not a 'must look" image. If you note one thing of the comments, it is the fact and practice, to over expose the snow all the time, 1 or even 2 full stops to get a right exposure to the snow. Your camera always under exposing the snow, and you get a muddy landscape instead of snow. And after that, very hard, or almost impossible to correct it. Cropping of the part I did, because it is not necessary for the composition.  Your corrected image still to dark for me in my properly toned calibrated monitor. In life, it was more white, as I experienced many time,  being out in this whether in Canada, some time in a brutal cold of -26C.

Cheers.

-18C and blowing snow, out in the open field.

Thank you kindly for the sound advise and for uploading those nice images.You are right that it is difficult to bring back an under-exposed snow shot and I should bear in mind to overexpose as you note,an especially opportune advise as winter is now upon us or almost.December is not so cold but January and February can be brutally cold as you experienced and blizzard type weather is not uncommon here on the coast due to the high winds coming off the waters.I framed this to include the bush on the left as it contributed to show the intensity of the storm taken from my second floor front door ;the white out would have been more intense(better?) had the shot been taken at ground level, but I am sure the next few months will bring more opportunities.

Meilleures salutations-Laurent