Blue Pictures: Hi! I took these photos at approximately 0830 hours with a Canon EOS T5 using a Canon EF-5 18 - 55 lens. They all came out bluish! I shot the same pictures (not shown...

dasgeiss

Hi! I took these photos at approximately 0830 hours with a Canon EOS T5 using a Canon EF-5 18 - 55 lens. They all came out bluish! I shot the same pictures (not shown here) the next day in the late afternoon and the blusishness was gone. What caused the bluishness????? Any ideas?

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/58071vkmv4l98h3/AAD8VlK9nYbMQb4b4llYZ-mea?dl=0

Bob

tainkc Loc: Kansas City

Yeah, your white balance setting was wrong. Check it.

dasgeiss

Thank you, I forgot about that. Had me really going as I had never noticed the blue thing before and I have been taking pictures now for about 70 years!

RachelB Loc: Fort Davis, Texas

Ahh, white balance. It's so much easier to adjust than fiddling with the bazillion filters we had to keep on hand back in the old days. That's one thing I don't miss about film.

BartHx

In the early morning, the majority of your lighting is from diffuse light coming to the scene from the sky. Because of its short wave length, blue is the color most easily diffused, giving your shots a blue cast (similar to shooting in open shade -- especially near water). That is also why, on a clear day, the sky appears to be blue. When the sun is at or very near the horizon, the longer red waves are refracted around Earth's curvature more, so those scenes tend toward the red end of the spectrum. Thus the need for white balance in digital photography. Under ideal conditions you can see most of the spectrum pass as the sun sets and each frequency reaches its ideal angle of refraction from your perspective. Twice in my life I have seen a brief period of green in a sunset, though neither time did it last long enough for me to manage to photograph it.

jeep_daddy Loc: Prescott AZ

dasgeiss wrote:

Hi! I took these photos at approximately 0830 hours with a Canon EOS T5 using a Canon EF-5 18 - 55 lens. They all came out bluish! I shot the same pictures (not shown here) the next day in the late afternoon and the blusishness was gone. What caused the bluishness????? Any ideas?

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/58071vkmv4l98h3/AAD8VlK9nYbMQb4b4llYZ-mea?dl=0

Bob

Put your camera in Auto W/B until you learn more about how to get a really accurate W/B using a custom W/B

terry44 Loc: Tuolumne County California, Maui Hawaii

looks like a white balance issue, camera was probably set for indoor fluorescent lights

dasgeiss wrote:

Hi! I took these photos at approximately 0830 hours with a Canon EOS T5 using a Canon EF-5 18 - 55 lens. They all came out bluish! I shot the same pictures (not shown here) the next day in the late afternoon and the blusishness was gone. What caused the bluishness????? Any ideas?

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/58071vkmv4l98h3/AAD8VlK9nYbMQb4b4llYZ-mea?dl=0

Bob

terry44 Loc: Tuolumne County California, Maui Hawaii

photos look like you are possibly in my area Southeastern Arizona

dasgeiss wrote:

Hi! I took these photos at approximately 0830 hours with a Canon EOS T5 using a Canon EF-5 18 - 55 lens. They all came out bluish! I shot the same pictures (not shown here) the next day in the late afternoon and the blusishness was gone. What caused the bluishness????? Any ideas?

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/58071vkmv4l98h3/AAD8VlK9nYbMQb4b4llYZ-mea?dl=0

Bob

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

RachelB wrote:

Ahh, white balance. It's so much easier to adjust than fiddling with the bazillion filters we had to keep on hand back in the old days. That's one thing I don't miss about film.

Yeah, I had a bag of them. FL-D, FL-B for fluorescents; 80A, 80B, and 80C to convert tungsten lights of various types to daylight film, 85A, 85B, 85C, to convert daylight to tungsten film, a bunch of 81-series warming filters and 82-series cooling filters, and a whole sheaf of Wratten gels to tweak everything to the unique nature of a particular batch of Ektachrome. They're all in my closet, now, in case someone I know and care about wants to use film... (and for my kids to find when I die, and go, "Dad, what the hell...???")

To the OP: You should probably invest in a Delta-1 Gray Card, or an ExpoDisc, or a WhiBal, or a One Shot Digital Calibration Target, and learn to use it for Custom White Balance. Targets and tools such as these enable you to NAIL your color, quickly, regardless whether you work in JPEG or raw capture mode. Of course, you can always deviate from that "normal" if you want.

BobHartung Loc: Bettendorf, IA

burkphoto wrote:

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For many casual photographers, auto white balance is the setting to use. It will give the proper color balance most of the time unless you in a very unusual situation.

Peterff Loc: O'er The Hills and Far Away, in Themyscira.

BobHartung wrote:

For many casual photographers, auto white balance is the setting to use. It will give the proper color balance most of the time unless you in a very unusual situation.

And if you shoot raw, then it is very easy to reset to a different white balance selection....

bull drink water Loc: pontiac mi.

I did that last week, I had forgot the camera was set for incadesent lamps, as soon as I set it for sun lite the pictures came out alright

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

BobHartung wrote:

For many casual photographers, auto white balance is the setting to use. It will give the proper color balance most of the time unless you in a very unusual situation.

AWB generally works well outside in most sun-powered lighting. Many cameras, *especially* high end dSLRs, have trouble getting accurate WB when using AWB under incandescent and fluorescent sources. Others, such as recent iPhones, provide remarkably accurate AWB under most lighting with an 80 or better color rendering index.

Testing your particular gear is always a worthwhile exercise...

cambriaman Loc: Central CA Coast

Yep, white balance. I made the same mistake at The Tetons. Fortunately, I shoot RAW and I was able to rectify the error. Yes, I had been shooting indoors WB for incandescent. It's easy to forget to reset WB. I need a nanny to follow me around and remind me!

LFingar Loc: Claverack, NY

dasgeiss wrote:

Thank you, I forgot about that. Had me really going as I had never noticed the blue thing before and I have been taking pictures now for about 70 years!

Shooting in daylight with your WB set to Tungsten will result in blue. Try shooting the moon using Tungsten and the result will be a nice blue moon!