Delia Young

What filter color do I need so that I can not get too much of a green tint in my pictures?

rpavich Loc: West Virginia

Post the original of this please.

But the short answer is: set a custom white balance when shooting.

Buy a grey card, or some other means of setting this when you are shooting in a certain location under certain light.

rpavich Loc: West Virginia

The other option is to do the best you can with the auto white balance modes in camera and then fix it in post production.

I fixed this in Lightroom in 5 seconds...see the comparison below:

MWAC Loc: Somewhere East Of Crazy

custom white balance all the way. For people photography I never use a filter, custom white balance and off I go.

Stef C Loc: Conshohocken (near philly) PA

Custom White balance in PP or on the camera? I don't think my lowly D3100 has that option.

I just fix it all in Lightroom anyway..

GoofyNewfie Loc: Kansas City

A little fill flash can go a long way here too.

MWAC Loc: Somewhere East Of Crazy

I set it in camera (Canon 40D), it's one less step to do in post. LR does make it simple to correct thou, especially with the sync feature. :)

travlnman46 Loc: Yakima WA

Hi Delia Young: I'm not sure which brand of camera you are using but most dslr cameras have have various setting within the menu the are usually something like "landscape" which accent blues and greens, "portrait which accent reds and yellows, There are other settings such as "standard," "netural," "faithful" and "monochrome". They are all tied into your white balance settings. Which usually read "AWB, "Daylight," "Shade, "Cloudy," "Tungsten," "Florescent,". Read your manual, that will help you find the settings. Then experiment with the various settings. You should be able to see how the various setting affect the outcome of your picture. I would guess Your camera was set to landscape when you took the the picture you posted. Hope this helps.

kathlyndee

Your D3100 does have a white balance control. Check out your manual on white balance or go to nikon.

http://support.nikonusa.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/16910/~/user's-manual---d3100---guide-to-digital-photography


the white balance setting is in the shooting menu. Take it off auto and play away

mdeman Loc: Damascus, Maryland

Your whole scene is bathed in green light reflected from the trees and grass. Personally, I like the saturation of the green foliage and think that just white balance washes out that color. I would use a red filter mask, paint the whole mask in black, then go back and just paint the skin tones in white. You'll get lovely skin tones, but the rest of the picture will be true to the existing lighting.

silver Loc: Santa Monica Ca.

Your problem is that you are picking up green saturation from all the grass and trees in your image. Reflected light will do this to an image. The solution is to not shoot under a canopy of trees and where the light is soft and reflected off of the environment.

digiman Loc: Brooklyn, NY/Greenville, SC

Yes, the D 3100 has it. I have a D 3100 and you can set your white balance to several different parameters.

Dun1 Loc: Atlanta, GA

Hep custom white balance and some flash or fill flash should help

Stef C Loc: Conshohocken (near philly) PA

yeah white balance is the only thing i've never taken off of Auto. I Actually shoot in M a lot but with auto White balance just because it's so easily correctable in lightroom. I know there are WB options, but I didnt know you could customize one/them. Thanks!

Bobber Loc: Fredericksburg, Texas

I like mdeman's bias as it matches my own (the usual reason for a liking) It accepts the image setting. It accepts the topic poster's purpose. And, it offers a solution directed at that purpose in isolation from messing with other image characteristics.

It might be of interest that there is another solution with a similar result. It is a Photo Shop approach that does not often appear in addressing similar problems, at least in my narrow experience.

With the image open

1. Select/Color Range
2. With the selection picker set to + click on a variety of green areas.
3, Set the Fuzziness slider set to maximize the green areas chosen and avoid the skin tones.
4. Complete the selection
5. Use what ever other selection tools are preferred to add/subtract any areas as best excludes skin tones and adds legitimate green areas missed.
6. Select/Inverse
7. Use a color correction tool, such as Image/Adjustments/Color Balance, to adjust skin tones as one prefers.

I am posting a topic of my own concerning the variety of solutions offered by responders entitled 'Regarding "Green tint in pictures" by Delia Young'.