{"id":507,"date":"2026-03-09T12:05:03","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T22:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lavalightgalleries.com\/blog\/?p=507"},"modified":"2026-03-09T12:05:03","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T22:05:03","slug":"lava-light-lesson-41editing-snow-shots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lavalightgalleries.com\/blog\/lava-light-lesson-41editing-snow-shots\/","title":{"rendered":"LAVA LIGHT LESSON #41\u2026EDITING SNOW SHOTS"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I just returned from a week in the Swiss and Italian Alps in the middle of winter.\u00a0 I have never seen so much snow.\u00a0 On two days we caught bright sunlight and great scenery\u2026so we have some wonderful images to edit.<\/p>\n

I live in Hawaii\u2026I don\u2019t edit many snowy photos.\u00a0 We have snow on the summit of Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa and I avoid it as much as possible.\u00a0 I lived in Chicago for over 20 years, I am over plan for a lifetime when it comes to snow.<\/p>\n

So I sat down to edit my mountain shots and learned a few important things very quickly.<\/p>\n

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  1. Don\u2019t sharpen snow shots that are in both sunlight and shadows.\u00a0 The area in the shadows will turn out green.\u00a0 I did not sharpen nor denoise any of my shots and they all look crisp.<\/li>\n
  2. Make sure you have on your indicator that tells you if you need to turn down your highlights.\u00a0 You will have areas that need turned down.<\/li>\n
  3. Go easy on the saturation. I used Auto Tone in Photoshop and that gave me all the color correction I needed.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    All the rest was very easy.\u00a0 The shots looked great and the editing was simple.\u00a0 Good luck with yours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I just returned from a week in the Swiss and Italian Alps in the middle of winter.\u00a0 I have never seen so much snow.\u00a0 On two days we caught bright sunlight and great scenery\u2026so we have some wonderful images to edit. I live in Hawaii\u2026I don\u2019t edit many snowy photos.\u00a0 We have snow on the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":508,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavalightgalleries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavalightgalleries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavalightgalleries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavalightgalleries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavalightgalleries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=507"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavalightgalleries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":509,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavalightgalleries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507\/revisions\/509"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavalightgalleries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavalightgalleries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavalightgalleries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavalightgalleries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}