Color issues: This is the courtyard of the old Presidential Palace in Tegucigalpa. The leaves on both side of the tower in the distance are a strange shade of blue, where they overlap...

Lmarc Loc: Ojojona, Honduras

This is the courtyard of the old Presidential Palace in Tegucigalpa. The leaves on both side of the tower in the distance are a strange shade of blue, where they overlap the lighter sky and clouds. Does anyone know what can cause this? Wrong lens? ISO?

Settings were:

Camera: Nikon D90
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/180
Aperture: f6.7
Mode: Auto
Lens: Nikon 18-105 G ED

Afternoon, semi-cloudy, bright.

Bill Houghton Loc: New York area

I think you will find that it's some haze, moisture causing the blueing, if you bring you exposure down some then bring the contrast up a little it will clean right up. Noon time really isn't a time of day to shoot. As many here are about to tell you.

RAK Loc: Concord Ca

Try metering for the sky push shutter half way recompose and use fill flash for foreground.

Lmarc Loc: Ojojona, Honduras

Good ideas! Thanks! :thumbup:

gdwsr Loc: Northern California

Are you talking about the blue fringe on the leaf edges?

Lmarc Loc: Ojojona, Honduras

gdwsr wrote:

Are you talking about the blue fringe on the leaf edges?

Partly, but mostly the ugly blue/grey color of the leaves on both the tree and the palm on either side of the tower.

gdwsr Loc: Northern California

What I think I am seeing is three things.

1. Chromatic Aberration causing the blue fringe correctable with most editing software.

2. Jpeg compression, esp. noticeable in the tree to the left of the tower. The leaves look "painterly". Like splotches of color made with a paint brush. RAW images would give you more control in avoiding or correcting this.

3. Leaf surface reflection of the sky. A circular polarizing filter will go a long way in giving you better leaf and flower colors.

Hope that helps.

Penny MG Loc: Fresno, Texas

Lmarc wrote:

This is the courtyard of the old Presidential Palace in Tegucigalpa. The leaves on both side of the tower in the distance are a strange shade of blue, where they overlap the lighter sky and clouds. Does anyone know what can cause this? Wrong lens? ISO?

Settings were:

Camera: Nikon D90
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/180
Aperture: f6.7
Mode: Auto
Lens: Nikon 18-105 G ED

Afternoon, semi-cloudy, bright.

I see that some have already answered your question, but I do have to say, its a beautiful picture. I like your composition. :thumbup:

letmedance Loc: Walnut, Ca.

Focus and metering are center weighted and the Palm in the center is dead on. The top of the photo is over exposed and the tower and tree to the left are not in focus.
John

Lmarc wrote:

This is the courtyard of the old Presidential Palace in Tegucigalpa. The leaves on both side of the tower in the distance are a strange shade of blue, where they overlap the lighter sky and clouds. Does anyone know what can cause this? Wrong lens? ISO?

Settings were:

Camera: Nikon D90
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/180
Aperture: f6.7
Mode: Auto
Lens: Nikon 18-105 G ED

Afternoon, semi-cloudy, bright.

Dewar Loc: Summer in MN & Winter in FL

I agree with all said above but will add the leaves in question could have been moving slightly causing blur.

marcomarks Loc: Ft. Myers, FL

Lmarc wrote:

This is the courtyard of the old Presidential Palace in Tegucigalpa. The leaves on both side of the tower in the distance are a strange shade of blue, where they overlap the lighter sky and clouds. Does anyone know what can cause this? Wrong lens? ISO?

Settings were:

Camera: Nikon D90
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/180
Aperture: f6.7
Mode: Auto
Lens: Nikon 18-105 G ED

Afternoon, semi-cloudy, bright.

Hope you don't mind that I put your shot through an HDR software that can create a pseudo-HDR out of a single shot, then reduced chromatic aberration in it twice to try to help the leaves you are having trouble with. The HDR effect is a little strong but I did it in a minute or so without carefully tweaking.

Lmarc Loc: Ojojona, Honduras

marcomarks wrote:

Hope you don't mind that I put your shot through an HDR software that can create a pseudo-HDR out of a single shot, then reduced chromatic aberration in it twice to try to help the leaves you are having trouble with. The HDR effect is a little strong but I did it in a minute or so without carefully tweaking.

I don't mind at all. Anyone is welcome to rework anything I post. You did good with it. Did you use Photomatrix? :thumbup:

marcomarks Loc: Ft. Myers, FL

Lmarc wrote:

I don't mind at all. Anyone is welcome to rework anything I post. You did good with it. Did you use Photomatrix? :thumbup:

I use Photomatix for other stuff that is multi-frames (my camera will do 7-frames at 2EV intervals) in my work because Photomatix does bulk processing and "fusion" for realism.

But for your photo I used Dynamic Photo HDR 5 which is an inexpensive little program that excels at creating psuedo (fake) HDRs from a single shot quickly and easily. It does it best using a RAW single shot but yours was JPG. Oddly enough I've never used HDR 5 for real multi-frame HDR but if it does as good as it does on a single frame, I imagine it works very well for real HDR too. It was a magazine "product of the year" in 2008 but was dwarfed by Photomatix soon afterward.

Below are three samples of the things I do with HDR 5 in my work situation. All of these were single RAW shots.

rpavich Loc: West Virginia

gdwsr wrote:

What I think I am seeing is three things. br br 1... (show quote)

this is the answer to the question.

PalePictures Loc: Traveling

gdwsr wrote:

What I think I am seeing is three things. br br 1... (show quote)

This is the answer. :)