red cast on photographs: I have a Nikon d5100 camera with the kit lens,whatever setup I use there is always a slight red cast to the pics, I have tried auto white balance, and in very...

OZMON Loc: WIGAN UK

I have a Nikon d5100 camera with the kit lens,whatever setup I use there is always a slight red cast to the pics, I have tried auto white balance, and in very sunny conditions sun, etc.
Also I have tried the vivid setting the neutral and all the other settings but still get the same results, I can alter the colour in my paint program but why do I keep getting the red cast, any ideas please.

lamiaceae Loc: San Luis Obispo County, CA

OZMON wrote:

I have a Nikon d5100 camera with the kit lens,whatever setup I use there is always a slight red cast to the pics, I have tried auto white balance, and in very sunny conditions sun, etc.
Also I have tried the vivid setting the neutral and all the other settings but still get the same results, I can alter the colour in my paint program but why do I keep getting the red cast, any ideas please.

Have you had that camera or did you just get it used. A D5100 is far from new. I'm guessing you are shooting JPG (JPEG) and not Raw. WB should be able to get very close even on AWB. With Raw it should be a one-click fix with ACR (Ps or Lr). Someting may be wrong with your camera or settings in it. But you are better off with excess Red than Blue. Blue people in portraits look like corpses! Perhaps a Nikon using with a similar camera knows what is wrong or at least to know it needs repair. Good luck.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

OZMON wrote:

I have a Nikon d5100 camera with the kit lens,whatever setup I use there is always a slight red cast to the pics, I have tried auto white balance, and in very sunny conditions sun, etc.
Also I have tried the vivid setting the neutral and all the other settings but still get the same results, I can alter the colour in my paint program but why do I keep getting the red cast, any ideas please.

That is odd. Auto WB should handle it, but apparently, there's a problem with it. posting a couple of pictures would help.

BJW

I am not familiar with the 5100 but with other Nikons you will find in the white balance menu a feature that will allow you to adjust the color bias by adjusting a color graph. Tilt it away from the red and toward normal (center), or toward any of the other colors depicted on the axis: blue, green, yellow, etc. You may also be able to adjust the color by lowering the kelvins degrees (temperature), red being too warm, blue being too cool.

EnglishBrenda Loc: Kent, England

Could this link help? Perhaps the fine adjustments have been accidentally changed at some point, (nb. the word dummies is not meant to be offensive in this link).

http://www.dummies.com/photography/cameras/nikon-camera/how-to-change-white-balance-settings-on-a-nikon-d5100/

DaveO Loc: Northeast CT

A two button reset may be a thought. I believe any color bias would be reset.

JCam Loc: MD Eastern Shore

OZMON wrote:

I have a Nikon d5100 camera with the kit lens,whatever setup I use there is always a slight red cast to the pics, I have tried auto white balance, and in very sunny conditions sun, etc.
Also I have tried the vivid setting the neutral and all the other settings but still get the same results, I can alter the colour in my paint program but why do I keep getting the red cast, any ideas please.

Is the red showing up in Prints, your monitor or both? I get it when printing on the final monitor picture of the Print Program. It drove me nuts for a while trying to correct it then I realized if I just ignored it and clicked print, the result was fine. For the record, I'm using PSE 14 and printing with a Canon PIXMA PRO 9000 MK II and telling the software to use the Photoshop colors not the Printers color gradients.

romanticf16 Loc: Commerce Twp, MI

OZMON wrote:

I have a Nikon d5100 camera with the kit lens,whatever setup I use there is always a slight red cast to the pics, I have tried auto white balance, and in very sunny conditions sun, etc.
Also I have tried the vivid setting the neutral and all the other settings but still get the same results, I can alter the colour in my paint program but why do I keep getting the red cast, any ideas please.

Would it havveanything to do with the tinted lenses of your eyeglasses? I'll bet it's a slight warm tint, from the look of your photo? Order Neutral Grey lenses.

Gene51 Loc: Yonkers, NY, now in LSD (LowerSlowerDelaware)

OZMON wrote:

I have a Nikon d5100 camera with the kit lens,whatever setup I use there is always a slight red cast to the pics, I have tried auto white balance, and in very sunny conditions sun, etc.
Also I have tried the vivid setting the neutral and all the other settings but still get the same results, I can alter the colour in my paint program but why do I keep getting the red cast, any ideas please.

Post a sample

BebuLamar

Yup! May be the red cast is on you monitor

OZMON Loc: WIGAN UK

thanks for all replies, I have had the camera from new, and I shoot in raw and jpeg, I can easily fix the problem with post processing but why does it happen i don't know, monitor is calibrated regularly so it is not that.

bdk Loc: Sanibel Fl.

im wondering if your getting light bleeding into the camera and your picking up a red cast. Try putting a towel over it and take a shot and see what u get. Just an Idea .....

CatMarley Loc: North Carolina

OZMON wrote:

I have a Nikon d5100 camera with the kit lens,whatever setup I use there is always a slight red cast to the pics, I have tried auto white balance, and in very sunny conditions sun, etc.
Also I have tried the vivid setting the neutral and all the other settings but still get the same results, I can alter the colour in my paint program but why do I keep getting the red cast, any ideas please.

Have you tried a "factory reset" on your camera? If that does not work, have you calibrated your monitor? If you have done both, and your photos are still red, call Nikon.

Toment Loc: FL, IL

Post original?

rmalarz Loc: Tempe, Arizona

If you've done a factory reset and that didn't solve the problem, I'd say it was time to send it back to factory repair facility and have them take a look at it.
--Bob

OZMON wrote:

thanks for all replies, I have had the camera from new, and I shoot in raw and jpeg, I can easily fix the problem with post processing but why does it happen i don't know, monitor is calibrated regularly so it is not that.