PhilW
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Oh - on your "Odd Coloured Hair" one - the White Balance is all wrong which is causing the colour shift. Look at the white porcelin thing in the bottom of the frame, that's orange too. Set your WB to tungsten and re-take the shot. It should look much more natural. Even better, shoot raw while you are holding a grey card and set a custom WB off that.
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Coz
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But the light wasn't on when I took that one of me with ginger hair. There was only ligt coming through the window.
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PhilW
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But the light wasn't on when I took that one of me with ginger hair. There was only ligt coming through the window.
Never the less the WB is the problem (I know because I d/l the pic and corrected it, much as Erm (I think) did in the other thread.
The colour temperature of the light is effected my many variables - in this case probably reflections from the stone walls.
The WB setings on you camera are just generic corrections for a number of common light temperatures, labled to give you an idea what they are for.
Take tungsten bulbs for instance - different wattages of bulb give different colour light, and all of them give a warmer light when dimmed. Fluorescents are even worse with different ones giving off completely different colours.
Take a picture lit with tungsten light in a blue painted room and things get really complicated....
The trick is (if shooting jpg) to read the light and make a guess at the right setting. Or, even beter take a reference shot of a grey card and use that to set a custom WB (see your camera manual)
Otherwise, the easy way is to shoot in RAW, take a few reference shots of he grey card and set the WB to that when you convert to jpg.
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john_g
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It's not always the colour of the light that causes these problems, it's often the camera's bad choice of colour balance. It tries to make an 'intelligent' guess, based on what the sensor sees and what it's been programmed to do, but a lot of cameras can't cope with unusual images with an unexpected predominance of some colour or other. In this case, as I think Erm pointed out, it's probably the large coloured area of the chimney that's fooling it.
The easiest way to correct colour balance, if your software offers this facility (and most do), is to find something in the picture that should be neutral in colour (preferably grey rather than white or black) and use the eye-dropper colour balance tool to click on that area. This should, with no further work, correct any colour problems. With no access to your pictures now I can't try it, but I suspect the grey ceramic surround to the elements in the fire might well be a good area to try.
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