Snow, D300, Color Correction

Snowed a bit last night, so for the camera club November challenge, I wanted to get a couple of snow shots. I drove through Memorial Park near the ball fields and shot these images. The first two I shot through the front windshield of my truck (lazy, huh!), Nikon D300, matrix metering, Program mode, Nikon 35-70mm AF f/2.8 lens at 35mm. EXIF: f/5, 1/100 sec, ISO-200. I still have the high saturation turned on in the D300 and the first image looks a bit cold (blueish tint.)

The second image was altered using the Auto Color Correction in Photoshop Elements 6.

The third picture here, I took the time to run down the window, even backed up the truck a bit, to get this image. Straight out of the camera. Matrix metering on the D300 does pretty well. Histograms in all three images were solid. With the high contrast of these scenes (snow and dark trees), it does well.

I need to experiment with snow, spot metering, and manual mode some time.