Sky colour

Can anybody expalin why I sometimes get a pink tinge to sky colours when I shoot with my D30 on dull days. Is it the white balance setting and what can I do to edit it out using photoshop?
Cheers
Tony

not necessarily a conclusion wrapped in my question, but it might help to know what quality the lens you are using is... does it always happen with every lens you use?

Another, but potentially obvious point, are you using a Skylight filter? The have a pink tint, if you are, try without the filter, if you want zero tint protection filter use UV... That said, its possibly chromatic aberration, which is where colours are not all meeting to make true tones due to 'lesser' lens quality... back to the 'which lens'...

Dr Ade said:

Can anybody expalin why I sometimes get a pink tinge to sky colours
when I shoot with my D30 on dull days. Is it the white balance
setting and what can I do to edit it out using photoshop?

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There's a lot of reasons. It depends on the time of day. It depends on if you're capturing reflected light on that what constitues a dull day.

The Sun will give clouds an amber/yellowish cast and we're trained to think of clouds in terms of greys and whites. Not even close to reality. What you need to do, go outside with a pure white object and compare the white to what you're seeing so you can train your brain to acknowledge that what you're really seeing and not that what you're trained to see because of automatic response training. Also, are you shifting your color balance on the camera for cloudy or partly cloudy conditions? Is the Sun high in the sky or is the Sun low on the horizon? What is close by you when you trip the trigger as in, is the color of the wall or trees nearest you affecting the color balance of the scene?

All of this has to be taken into consideration.

Tim,
I am using a Canon 28- 135 USM IS Lens with no filters at al

Tim Lozinski said:

not necessarily a conclusion wrapped in my question, but it might
help to know what quality the lens you are using is... does it
always happen with every lens you use?

Another, but potentially obvious point, are you using a Skylight
filter? The have a pink tint, if you are, try without the filter,
if you want zero tint protection filter use UV... That said, its
possibly chromatic aberration, which is where colours are not all
meeting to make true tones due to 'lesser' lens quality... back to
the 'which lens'...

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Thanks Thomas You given me a lot think about - this seems to happen when a relatively grey featureless sky is in the background or vast expanse of white. The last time it happened I was taking photographs of a WW2 submarine that was part of a dry land static display in a ship museum. The sub was covered in rust so the dominant clour was red. No direct sun ( we dont see that red thing in the sky very often in Liverpool) overhead. I did not use any filters but overexposed the image to compensate for the darkness of the main subjet in relationship to the background. The sub made a fantastic subject - bent and broken against an industrial/dock background and I was really annoyed to find the quality of the image did not match my expectations when I got back to base.
Cheers
Tony

Thomas Gardner said:

Dr Ade said:

Can anybody expalin why I sometimes get a pink tinge to sky colours
when I shoot with my D30 on dull days. Is it the white balance
setting and what can I do to edit it out using photoshop?

Click to expand...

There's a lot of reasons. It depends on the time of day. It
depends on if you're capturing reflected light on that what
constitues a dull day.

Click to expand...