Light Room Problem: I shoot with a sony a100 and a37.When I bring them up in LR the pictures have a bright blue cast in the shadows???its making me crazy,I don't know what the problem...

jaddottart Loc: Florida

I shoot with a sony a100 and a37.When I bring them up in LR
the pictures have a bright blue cast in the shadows???its making me crazy,I don't know what the problem is and I can't figure it out.....Thanks in advance for any comments.

Wall-E Loc: Phoenix, AZ

jaddottart wrote:

I shoot with a sony a100 and a37.When I bring them up in LR
the pictures have a bright blue cast in the shadows???its making me crazy,I don't know what the problem is and I can't figure it out.....Thanks in advance for any comments.

First, please decide which thread you want to keep and delete the other.

Now, what is the white balance setting on your camera? And what was the lighting?
Are you shooting RAW? Or jpg?

jaddottart Loc: Florida

Now for my second problem,I don't know how to delete,sorry about that.I shoot with auto white balance,daylight,raw,aperture 7 to 11.........

Wall-E Loc: Phoenix, AZ

jaddottart wrote:

Now for my second problem,I don't know how to delete,sorry about that.I shoot with auto white balance,daylight,raw,aperture 7 to 11.........

It's EITHER auto white balance OR it's daylight.
I leave the WB on my Nikon DSLR's on 'cloudy'.
'Auto' is automatically wrong.

As you're shooting RAW, all you have to do is go into 'Basics' and change the white balance from 'As Shot' to something closer to the actual lighting.

jaddottart Loc: Florida

Thank You Sir,I will try it.....J.

lightchime Loc: Somewhere Over The Rainbow

As has been mentioned, white balance can be one of the culprits. If white balance is responsible, you should expect a bluish cast to the entire photo.

Another thing to consider is that shadow areas often result in a blue cast. Colors appear more saturated in shadow areas and the blue can be reflection of light from the sky.

I don't know your cameras, but different camera and lens combinations can be responsible for different shifts in color.

mwsilvers Loc: Central New Jersey

jaddottart wrote:

I shoot with a sony a100 and a37.When I bring them up in LR
the pictures have a bright blue cast in the shadows???its making me crazy,I don't know what the problem is and I can't figure it out.....Thanks in advance for any comments.

Is it printing out with the bright blue cast? If not its probably the under exposure indicator which is a medium bright blue. If you click on the triangle in the top left corner of the histogram it will go away. Since you indicate this occurs only in the shadows I believe it will fix your problem, but its there to let you know you are underexposing. Moving the Blacks slider will affect this and the presence of the color usually means you are losing shadow detail. If this does not fix the problem, you're back to a white balance issue.

lightchime Loc: Somewhere Over The Rainbow

mwsilvers wrote:

Is it printing out with the bright blue cast? If n... (show quote)

I think you got the right interpretation.

mborn Loc: Massachusetts

lightchime wrote:

I think you got the right interpretation.

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brucewells Loc: Central Kentucky

jaddottart wrote:

I shoot with a sony a100 and a37.When I bring them up in LR
the pictures have a bright blue cast in the shadows???its making me crazy,I don't know what the problem is and I can't figure it out.....Thanks in advance for any comments.

mwsilvers has the answer. I gave the same response before reading all of them.

sportyman140 Loc: Juliette, GA

jaddottart wrote:

I shoot with a sony a100 and a37.When I bring them up in LR
the pictures have a bright blue cast in the shadows???its making me crazy,I don't know what the problem is and I can't figure it out.....Thanks in advance for any comments.

Hi Jaddottart, in your histogram are the two top corners have white squares or just greyed out triangles? If the triangles have a white box outline then click on the boxes and the blue should go away, it is a tool to help with seeing how much adjustment to take away the clipping either on whites or blacks.

mwsilvers Loc: Central New Jersey

sportyman140 wrote:

Hi Jaddottart, in your histogram are the two top corners have white squares or just greyed out triangles? If the triangles have a white box outline then click on the boxes and the blue should go away, it is a tool to help with seeing how much adjustment to take away the clipping either on whites or blacks.

See my post above

Aldebaran Loc: Florida

It is not a LR problem, more "operator error" than anything else.

mwsilvers Loc: Central New Jersey

Aldebaran wrote:

It is not a LR problem, more "operator error" than anything else.

True its not a problem with Lightroom, but its not "operator error" either since he apparently did not do anything to cause the "problem". It's seems like just a lack of understanding about one of Lightroom's features. From the OP's point of view he was having a problem so the thread title is approrpiate.

jeep_daddy Loc: Prescott AZ

jaddottart wrote:

I shoot with a sony a100 and a37.When I bring them up in LR
the pictures have a bright blue cast in the shadows???its making me crazy,I don't know what the problem is and I can't figure it out.....Thanks in advance for any comments.

It could be CA - please post one of the images that has the most offensive blue cast and we can see.