What happened here?

[GAD]

What is up with this one? Why are the windows blue?

GAD

 

[Largo]

I have no idea, but I'll give a guess. Possibly some natural cool evening light comming through the window. Or the natural light reflecting off of something blue outside causing the blue cast. Fluorescent lighting can sometimes cause a bluish tint too. Am I even in the ball park?

Is this one of the wedding photos?

 

[logan]

Possibly a neon bar sign outside. Some colors of neon could possibly emit Ir that could affect the photo like that. Just a guess

 

[Largo]

Good guess, that could possibly be what is reflecting the blue cast.

 

[Jeannie]

Purely a guess

The light coming in the window is not an artificial light source. The camera was set on the whites and the lighting inside so the window is blue because of the way the camera sees the colors???

Does this show how stupid I am about photography?

 

[Jeannie]

It also looks like you had the background set to be blurry so maybe that has something to do with it?

 

[Jeannie]

Another guess

Daylight and artificial light have different colour temperatures, so they will cast a different lighting hue?

 

[Largo]

Jeannie you are not stupid. Shooting in mixed lighting situations can give unwanted color casts. So too can shooting with a tungsten white balance setting outside at twilight. It will give a blue cast to the photo. I suppose that can happen indoors also to the natural evening light comming through a window./?

 

[Largo]

Daylight changes color through out the day and according to cloud cover. Early morning and late evenig cast the warmest light. Artificial lighting cast different colors depending on the type of bulb used.

 

[GAD]

Yes this is a wedding photo. It was taken in the bar of the hotel, after dark, with no flash.

Here's another pic from the same bar. This one does not show the blue problem. Why?

...and no, I do not consider either to be among my best.

GAD

 

[GAD]

There was no neon outside. The hotel is located in the center of a town, across the street from the train station. Busy part of town, but not exactly a metropolis. The hotel has only 21 rooms.

Everything you need to know is in the above images. Some of you are very close.

GAD

 

[amyk]

Is the picture on top showing a bar with a mirror behind it and the window is actually shown in the mirror and that's why the reflection of the lights in the room are showing up in the picture?

 

[GAD]

Nope - no mirrors (smoke either)

Both are direct views of the windows.

The lights you see in the one shot are headlights in the parking lot across the road.

In the second picture, the light is my flash reflected in the window.

GAD

 

[sarnewfie]

to me it apears to be a lighting source that is shining down, and in turn the lighting source threw off your settings, or your settings were not ready for it, was there a spotlight or flourescent light above there?
it is in that type of shape.
Wonder also if it is related to a filter?

[ 02-11-2006, 11:55 AM: Message edited by: sarnewfie ]

 

[GAD]

No filters. I took them all off for the wedding (yes even UV).

OK - you've all been "this" close.

The problem, which I did not notice until I processed the images, is that the outside street lights were sodium vapor lamps. They cast a specific yellow/orange light. The original pics shows everyone orange. When I countered the problem by white balancing for skin tone, the outside light became completely blue.

The software I use reports the white to be 14,000 degrees kelvin when balanced. Wow! That's over twice normal.

The lesson? Flash is good. In the second image I used flash, which among other things, gaurenteed that *I* controlled the light.

GAD

 

[sarnewfie]

Oh poo
i was gonna ask if you used the flash in the first but somehow understood that you did in both.
good job, these are very educational, very good work!

 

[Largo]

I knew it has something to do with the outside lighting. Thanks for the lesson.