If anyone can tell me why the sky is not blue I would sure appreaciate it. I have a 5MP Panisonic was told by many that this is one of the best cameras you can get for $250.00. I am hoping it is user era and I dont have to get a $1100 Nikon just to take decent photos. Thanks http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=323025
Hi damz .. welcome to Trainboard I'm not familiar with Panisonic cameras. I assume it is a high end digital with 5mp ? I have a 5mp Minolta that has internal adjustable setting for color saturation. Maybe your camera has a similar function. Have you taken it to your local camera shop to ask them what you can do with it? Good luck.
I think it may be the winter sky. I have a lot of similar photos with a sky just like that, all taken in the winter months. [ March 22, 2006, 11:50 PM: Message edited by: Don Rickle ]
I suspect the blue may be 'lighter' than the real sky on the day as I think the camera will automatically be making the shot lighter (a longer exposure) to capture the detail on the black diesel. You probably have settings on it that you could use to counteract that, but the tradeoff would be that the detail on the black loco would be less easy to see. I've got no way of telling what the real colour of the sky was when you shot it, but it looks a fairly natural colour to me. Further thought - it's not your computer monitor setup is it? Try looking at it on a friends computer and see if it looks different on there? It's surprising how different the colours in the same photo can look when presented on two different monitors!
I agree with Martyn. It looks fine to me, sky is blue on my monitor. There is a lot of black there with the NS subject. Our winter sky here in Oregon is grey.
To me it looks like it was the time of day the shots were taken. From the position of the hand rail shadow the shot appears to have been taken either very early in the AM or late in the day. I have noticed the same issue with my camera in this type of light. My advice well do a little PS work and modify the colors. You can either do an automatic color correction or do it manualy. Hope this helps. Steve
Check your manual and see if there is a setting to adjust the white balance. That may help as well. You could also see if a circular polarizing filter is availabe for the camera. This will also help to get rid of the haze and give you more blue.
I think okane has it: check the white balance. Also, the "clean" NS units tend to be very hard to focus on and meter on, due to that shiny black surface. (Don't worry... they are not a problem for long ) Harold
Actually, my immediate impression was that the reason the sky has a green tint is that there too much green in the entire picture. To test this, I downloaded your picture and used photo software to reduce green gamma setting to about 80%. It helped the sky color & it also made the NS black look more natural and gave the trucks a redder appearance that seems like a more normal color. This experiment makes it still seem to me that the green is overdriven. Unfortunately I don't know how to change that in the camera itself, but maybe knowing this will help you get some advice from Panasonic. It seems like there ought to be a way to adjust or compensate.
