blue tint

[derrick937]

Im trying to learn how to shoot in manual, went to an old mental hospital and played around but a lot of what i took was blue ? i changed settings and retried, same blue tint, what am i missing here ? if i can figure out how to post picks i will try
D90
vr 55-300
78mm iso 200
1/1600 f4.5
incandesecant setting for cloudy condictions and indoor shots, tried with and without speed flash and bounced differant ways

032 by derrick937, on Flickr

 

[DiskoJoe]

adjust the temperature

 

[Big Mike]

Sounds like a White Balance issue. Try setting a custom WB (or shooting in RAW and trying to adjust it in post).

 

[480sparky]

According to the EXIF:

Light Source : Tungsten

 

[vivalavieboheme]

If you have a photo processing software like GIMP or Photoshop, you can edit this after the fact. Go to color balance and drag it away from blue until you get a less blue image.

But for the future...480Sparky got it right...tungsten will typically give you a blue tint.

 

[GooniesNeverSayDie11]

Sounds like the issue has been explained, but I wanted to add some food for thought. It would probably serve you better to learn the basic settings and controls of a camera and how they factor into an image before trying to dive into Manual shooting. How can you expect to control a camera manually if you have no clue what in fact you are even trying to "control" ? Thats not meant to be insulting in any way, just meant to be a logical assessment.

 

[cgipson1]

Im trying to learn how to shoot in manual, went to an old mental hospital and played around but a lot of what i took was blue ? i changed settings and retried, same blue tint, what am i missing here ? if i can figure out how to post picks i will try
D90
vr 55-300
78mm iso 200
1/1600 f4.5
incandesecant setting for cloudy condictions and indoor shots, tried with and without speed flash and bounced differant ways
http://www.flickr.com/photos/derrick937/6420612313/
032 by derrick937, on Flickr

Typically a cloudy day is bluer than a non-cloudy day.... so there is a CLOUDY WB setting that adds a bit of warmth to take away some of the blue. By setting your WB to Incandescent (Tungsten).. you add a lot of blue, since it is designed to compensate for the yellow light that incandescent lights put out. Need to read up on your WB settings, apparently. have fun!

 

[KmH]

Here is a good white balance tutorial: http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/white-balance.htm

Yep. I often set the white balance to incandescent when I make portraits outside, to give the ambient light a blue cast.

I then gel my strobed lighting so it is the color temperature of incandescent light, so the strobed light renders as white light in the photo.

 

[KmH]

Made the verticals plumb, corrected the white balance crudely, added a slight blue gradient to the sky.