40D: Weird colours

[robertbody]

I think it's a "mistake" any camera could do, could be a problem of light source temperature, where the scene was

judged not to be in daylight, and the camera chose a "non-daylight" White Balance. -- It could be something else,

but in my experience it can happen with any camera, but it does happen in sunset/night/low light situations.

Since you shoot only JPG you are limited, but RAW would have given you the option of choosing a different White

Balance and let you choose a better look.

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I had this happen occasionally with my Nikon D300, sometimes in 10 consecutive shots, just one and only one has a

strange blue cast, I see it right away in the camera, all the others look normal -- the last time there was no

sun in the picture but the sun was already set, i was shooting with sun behind me.

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Whenever you take a photo you should check how it looks in the viewfinder right away, and especially at sunset

the light conditions change so quickly (or when sun goes behind a cloud as in your case) that you should be

taking multiple photos, bracketing too, and then picking 1 or 2 out of 20 or 30 but that 1 or 2 will look great

and it only lasted a few seconds, like when the sun rays just peak from behind a cloud...

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<img src="http://www.robertbody.com/wyoming07/images/2007-07-27-y-mammoth-3909.jpg">

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<img src="http://www.robertbody.com/arizona08/images/2008-09-08-supers-clouds-24253.jpg">

[yakim_peled1]

>> Since you shoot only JPG you are limited, but RAW would have given you the option of choosing a different White Balance and let you choose a better look.

 

I shot in RAW (look at the OP) and later changed the WB (and posted the results). Have you read the whole thread?

 

>> Whenever you take a photo you should check how it looks in the viewfinder right away, and especially at sunset the light conditions change so quickly (or when sun goes behind a cloud as in your case) that you should be taking multiple photos, bracketing too, and then picking 1 or 2 out of 20 or 30 but that 1 or 2 will look great and it only lasted a few seconds, like when the sun rays just peak from behind a cloud...

 

You are right. I will definitely do this next time. Then again, when I did looked at the screen all I could think is: "WOW! What a cool colours". You see, I was not in a shooting session. I was babysitting my kids in a nearby pool and was watching them/playing with them most of the time. Thus, I had very little time to think about shooting and only when I came back home I thought about it a bit more and started to worry.

 

Happy shooting,

Yakim.