Diego Sahagún - Feb 27, 2002 5:33 pm - Hasn't voted
BlueWhy this blue, not only the sky but the snow too?: Any kind of filter? Software retouched image? Thanks.
Mathias Zehring - Feb 28, 2002 1:22 pm - Hasn't voted
Re: BlueHello Diego,
this is the normal blue colour you have if you take pictures at noon at high altitude. This is the reason why professional photographers take pictures only in the morning or afternoon. You can correct the colour by software and I decide picture by picture if I do so. In this case I did not, because the result tended to be a bet green which I did not like. In general, blue is my favorite colour, so I like the picture also this way. The famous mountain painter E.T. Compton often coloured his paintings in a blue tone. So this has some tradition!
Certainly the picture could be improved by a software expert.
Regards, Mathias
Diego Sahagún - Feb 28, 2002 2:41 pm - Hasn't voted
Slide scannersBeautiful but I have lots of photos taken at noon in the Alps and none of them shows this blue snow. I´m still thinking that this blue is not normal ¿Comes the image from a slide? ¿Could the blue be produced by the scanner? ¿Is there anyboy out there that can explain this case? Don't take it amiss, Mathias. Thanks.
Mathias Zehring - Feb 28, 2002 3:35 pm - Hasn't voted
Re: Slide scannersWell, perhaps you are right and my pictures are really sometimes more blue than other's. I use a pentax Z-20 camera and always Fuji sensia slide film. The scans are made with a Canon FS 2710 slide scanner. I know that >A HREF="http://summitpost.com/mountains/user_link.pl/user_id/829">Luidger uses the same scanner, but picture films.
I have just looked once again at the original slide and must admit, that the picture on the screen is definitely more blue than the original one. So perhaps it is really the scanner. Rolf Alpenkalb already has given me advice to look for another scanner software. I will think of that again now. Thanks for your comment! Mathias
JScoles - Feb 28, 2002 3:53 pm - Hasn't voted
Re: Slide scannersIt is the Film.
I find that most Fuji e-6 film has a differnt colour temp (balance) than kodak. Most kodack e-6 film has a really unpleasent blue cast when in the shadowns or a cloudy day where the Fuji is much better but has na ugly blue cast when over bright like high up a peak on a sunny day.
I allways found kodacrome the best for midday peak shots since the sky comes out almost black blue but it is not as good as fuji when shooting a sunset.
It is a matter of tast really and knowing your film.
In this case a UVb or even two (skylikght) filters will mostlikely fix the problem with only a slight loss of film speed. As well a ND (neutral density) 2 will do the trick but it will drop you film speed by 2 stops.
Hope this helps
bbirtle - Apr 19, 2005 6:25 am - Hasn't voted
Re: Slide scannersI think the natural light of most high mountain photography is indeed blue, just as if you take indoor photography you'll get a red cast. Our eye does "color balancing" for us and we remember it as white, so I almost always remove the blue cast using Adobe Photoshop. Hit Ctrl+Shift+B for Auto Color, which works 90% of the time. But sometimes leaves the picture too bright, so then use the Levels adjustment to soften. Or you can use the Color Balance adjustment.
Or leave it as blue, since as you said, it is sometimes a pleasing effect.
- Brian
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