Purple Jerseys Look blue?

freehockey

I have never encountered this before with my 7D. I have some shots of my daughter's soccer game, and some of their purple jerseys look blue in Lightroom. Any thoughts? Any way I can post 1 or 2 of them here for someone to look at?:dunno

donek

Go ahead. It sounds like a white balance issue. Auto white balance can be easily confused. If you set to sunlight or cloudy WB you won't run the risk of the camera trying to continually figure out what it's suppose to be and getting it wrong.

PatLovell

Go ahead. It sounds like a white balance issue. Auto white balance can be easily confused. If you set to sunlight or cloudy WB you won't run the risk of the camera trying to continually figure out what it's suppose to be and getting it wrong.

or... you can get a grey/white card and set your white balance yourself, this way you know that you got it right.

freehockey

I had 4x6 prints made, and they turned out blue as well. <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />

However, this morning I Noticed that the middle jersey is an older style (no white collar, no V-neck, no white on the sides and so on). So, I dug my daughter's old jersey (same style as the middle) and they're definitely different shades of purple, which explains the very hues. However, it does not explain the blue-ish hue to the other 2 jerseys.

I'm going outside later to take some test shots using various white balance settings . . .I’ll let you know what I come up with.

Zerodog

The only "correct" WB for a given situation is custom with a WB card or expodisk or Matt's liveview trick or some other WB setting device. But if you shoot auto it will get you close for most normal situations especially outside. But, correction of some sort is usually needed in post. This is your situation. Think about what you have going. What colors make purple? Blue and red. If you are not seeing purple your pink needs to be cranked up a bit. That is it. Or it is possible you need to mess with the individual color sliders for saturation too.

Ann McRae

Adjusting white balance with Lightroom should be pretty straight forward too. Use the eye dropper tool, and click on a nice neutral grey spot. If you don't like what that does, grab the slider and move it until the color looks right.

freehockey

Okay, here’s the scoop! After taking some test shots, and further examination of the newer jersey, here’s what I have discovered.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />

I dug my daughter's old jersey and discovered that although the tags say there’re both made from 100% nylon, the materials look and feel very different from each other.

Using white balance settings other than auto produced better results, not perfect, but better. And I have learned a valuable lesson in the importance of accurate white balancing.

I have also come to the conclusion that the material in the <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />new jersey does not photograph very well unless the jersey is brightly lit.

When photographed in the bright sunlight, the jersey color is good. At the same time however, the shadowy areas, or areas of the jersey that are not directly lit by the light source, definitely have a blueish tint to them.

I also photographed the jersey in a shaded area as well. In that situation, a vast majority of the jersey came out very blue. There were however, bits of sunlight that made it through the shady spot, and hit the jersey. Those spots were the correct color.

Seems as though the Jersey it self is the major issue at play. Knowing that, I’m looking forward to the next time I shoot the team to see if I cam come up with a shooting strategy that will yield better results!

P.S. how do I get an images uploaded to this post so you can see what i'm taking about?

Zerodog

All of what you are describing is related to WB. When the sun comes out, the light is another temp than if it is cloudy. The WB settings for your camera are pretty useless in my opinion. I use Auto or custom for everything. I don't think I have ever even bothered with the other settings. Both of these get you very close to correct for given situations. And fixing in LR is really easy when you get used to doing it.

PatLovell

Do yourself a big favor and purchase one of the following products and keep them in your camera bag at all times.

http://www.lastolite.com/ezybalance.php

http://www.expoimaging.com/product-overview.php?cat_id=1&keywords=ExpoDisc

I prefer the Lastolite but either works perfectly.

DavidTO

I edited some of your posts to remove the formatting that was making your text huge.

Often if you write the post in another app (like Word) this will happen. You're better off just composing your replies directly in the forum. If you do need to compose in another app, then please, when you are done and while still in the edit window, select all, and then click the remove formatting button, here:

Zerodog

PatLovell wrote: »

Do yourself a big favor and purchase one of the following products and keep them in your camera bag at all times.

http://www.lastolite.com/ezybalance.php

http://www.expoimaging.com/product-overview.php?cat_id=1&keywords=ExpoDisc

I prefer the Lastolite but either works perfectly.

I have both, each one is good for different applications. The expo disk is really easy to use if you are not using flash. The lastolite is super flexible and works for anything.