K10 blue cast

I must be too old and forgetful to own a K10. I got my new kit wide angle lens

about 2 weeks ago. I had to go to Hunt photography in Malden so I did a few

pictures around the center of town. All of them came out fine. Last Sunday I

went out to take a picture of a beautiful sunrise (wish you could have seen it)

and wish I could see it again. I did not realize that I had no SD card in the

camera. Yesterday I was out taking a few ocean shots and everything has a blue

cast. I thought this was from the blue ocean, blue sky but it was really more

of an electric blue. Pulled the camera out today to take a picture of the pets

in the house and they came out with electric blue cast also. Any and all help

would be appreciated. Joe

Sounds like you've set the wrong white balance. Reset to Auto or manually set one that is correct for your conditions.

 

Or, shoot RAW and change the White Balance later.

Shoot RAW is the best way. I never want to print/display ever photo that i take. So i just select the few that i do and process them, hence it only makes sense to shoot RAW, for me atleast.

 

Or you can take a colour temperature reading for each scene... though if conditions are changing constantly that can mess things up a bit. Generally, if you're shooting JPEGS you have to watch what WB setting you are in (unless your AWB is very reliable). Though there are ways of tweaking the colour temperature of JPEGs in post processing too.

Happened to me once with my Rebel XTI when I was on vacation. One of my sons fiddled around with my camera when I wasn't looking and somehow reset the white balance. Good thing I shot everything in RAW!

Thanks everyone for your quick response. My wife was afraid I was going to jump off the deck as I thought I had fried the camera. The one upside that I have learned about taking pictures without a card in the camera is that no one can say that the pictures were not fantastic. LOL. Thanks again, Joe

I agree with the others that its probably an incorrect white balance setting.

 

The K10D has the ability to remember certain settings when you turn the camera off. White balance is one of them. When I first got my K10D, I had the same problem. I did a few shots under tungsten light and forgot to change the WB setting back to daylight. When I turned it on again and tried to take some pictures, the WB was wrong.

 

Check out page 199 of the user's guide, "Selecting Capture Mode Settings to Save in the Camera". Make sure that the option for WB is unchecked. That way, when you turn the camera off, WB will revert to the default value, which I believe is Auto WB.

 

Drive Mode is another good one to turn off, although its up to you, of course. I find that using multiple exposure mode is the exception, rather than the norm for me, so, if I've set it to multi, I probably won't want to use that mode when I use the camera next.

 

Paul Noble

Joe.

Few people reported a blue cast on shoots taken in a low temperature ambient. You mentioned taking pictures early in the morning and I do not know where you reside but I presume it was a cold morning (quite cold here in Ireland). While RAW is best at forgiving few mistakes as the WB setting it will not forgive you for leaving the memory card home. :). There is however a technique implying shooting with not film or card so you can always pretend you were practicing ;-)

Regards

 

Ovidiu

ok, #1 - Ovidiu... I HAVE to know how to pronounce your name!! At 1st glance, i like it, but it

sure would be nice to know I'm saying it right.

 

#2 - back to photography. The pic below was taken after taking some pix inside by lamp-

light. I dunno if matt forgot or did this on purpose (let's go w/ on purpose, maybe nobody

will know ;-D ), but he def did NOT change the white balance before shooting this outside.<div></div>