Why so blue?

First off, I didn't take this photo.

A ski area I've been following on twitter has been tweeting pictures
that almost always have horrible white balance.
Example:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/c1w8ikjxoh...Tweet.jpg?dl=0

What the heck are they doing wrong? I have no idea what they're using
to take these shots.

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Later...
Ron C
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In article , Ron C wrote:

First off, I didn't take this photo.

A ski area I've been following on twitter has been tweeting pictures
that almost always have horrible white balance. Example:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/c1w8ikjxoh...Tweet.jpg?dl=0

What the heck are they doing wrong? I have no idea what they're
using to take these shots.

It could obviously be deliberate, using some smart phone camera filter.

--
Sandman

In article , Ron C
says...
A ski area I've been following on twitter has been tweeting pictures
that almost always have horrible white balance.
Example:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/c1w8ikjxoh...Tweet.jpg?dl=0

What the heck are they doing wrong? I have no idea what they're using
to take these shots.

Many years ago I took some shots using a film camera of a snow mountain
scene. Many came out with blue snow, similar to this shot.

Probably up in the mountains there is plenty of blue light and the
camera's white balance didn't work properly.
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Alfred Molon

Olympus E-series DSLRs and micro 4/3 forum at
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/MyOlympus/
http://myolympus.org/ photo sharing site

On 2015-02-18 18:28:16 +0000, Ron C said:

First off, I didn't take this photo.

A ski area I've been following on twitter has been tweeting pictures
that almost always have horrible white balance.
Example:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/c1w8ikjxoh...Tweet.jpg?dl=0

What the heck are they doing wrong? I have no idea what they're using
to take these shots.

Yup! The WB is way off. It looks like they used the "flourescent
lighting" preset. or the Auto WB couldn't handle the sky reflecting off
the snow.
Even worse would be if they shot it with a phone and applied some sort
of Instagram filter.

Do you know what camera they used?

Anyway, it is almost fixable. If it was shot in RAW it would be very fixable.
Here is my best quick fix. It is still not right, but it is better than
the version you presented.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1295663/FileChute/Camelback-Tweet-B.jpg


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Regards,

Savageduck

Ron C wrote:
First off, I didn't take this photo.

A ski area I've been following on twitter has been tweeting pictures
that almost always have horrible white balance.
Example:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/c1w8ikjxoh...Tweet.jpg?dl=0

What the heck are they doing wrong? I have no idea what they're using
to take these shots.

The scene is illuminated with blue light from a blue sky
and reflections of that blue light from all that white
snow.

All it needs is the have the "horrible white balance"
set to something not horrible.

--
Floyd L. Davidson http://www.apaflo.com/
Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska)

On 2/18/2015 4:05 PM, Floyd L. Davidson wrote:
Ron C wrote:
First off, I didn't take this photo.

A ski area I've been following on twitter has been tweeting pictures
that almost always have horrible white balance.
Example:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/c1w8ikjxoh...Tweet.jpg?dl=0

What the heck are they doing wrong? I have no idea what they're using
to take these shots.

The scene is illuminated with blue light from a blue sky
and reflections of that blue light from all that white
snow.

All it needs is the have the "horrible white balance"
set to something not horrible.

Night shot, no overwhelming blue sky reflections:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/0baaj2ly60...eet-2.jpg?dl=0

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Later...
Ron C
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Ron C wrote:
On 2/18/2015 4:05 PM, Floyd L. Davidson wrote:
Ron C wrote:
First off, I didn't take this photo.

A ski area I've been following on twitter has been tweeting pictures
that almost always have horrible white balance.
Example:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/c1w8ikjxoh...Tweet.jpg?dl=0

What the heck are they doing wrong? I have no idea what they're using
to take these shots.

The scene is illuminated with blue light from a blue sky
and reflections of that blue light from all that white
snow.

All it needs is the have the "horrible white balance"
set to something not horrible.

Night shot, no overwhelming blue sky reflections:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/0baaj2ly60...eet-2.jpg?dl=0

Actually at night virtually all of the light from the sky is also
very blue. That's why the shadow areas are blue, and the areas lit
by electric lights are not.

Hence it is the same problem, "horrible white balance", except this
time there is an added problem. Light from two different sources
that are quite different. You can't set the White Balance for one
without getting something odd from the other.

--
Floyd L. Davidson http://www.apaflo.com/
Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska)

On 2/18/2015 8:27 PM, Floyd L. Davidson wrote:
Ron C wrote:
On 2/18/2015 4:05 PM, Floyd L. Davidson wrote:
Ron C wrote:
First off, I didn't take this photo.

A ski area I've been following on twitter has been tweeting pictures
that almost always have horrible white balance.
Example:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/c1w8ikjxoh...Tweet.jpg?dl=0

What the heck are they doing wrong? I have no idea what they're using
to take these shots.

The scene is illuminated with blue light from a blue sky
and reflections of that blue light from all that white
snow.

All it needs is the have the "horrible white balance"
set to something not horrible.

Night shot, no overwhelming blue sky reflections:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/0baaj2ly60...eet-2.jpg?dl=0

Actually at night virtually all of the light from the sky is also
very blue. That's why the shadow areas are blue, and the areas lit
by electric lights are not.

Hence it is the same problem, "horrible white balance", except this
time there is an added problem. Light from two different sources
that are quite different. You can't set the White Balance for one
without getting something odd from the other.

Not buying that. I've seen a number of balanced "Go-Pro"
shots on that mountain in various lighting conditions that
don't have that problem/effect.

I'm wondering if this is one of those "creative" in camera
processes, some camera defect, or something else.
As far as I know, folks that tweet pictures don't tend
to do much post processing. Thus for me the question
"why so blue" is still open.

Anyway, it's not an effect I'm seeking to emulate.
My camera doesn't do any of those silly things.

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Later...
Ron C
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In article ,
Ron C wrote:

First off, I didn't take this photo.

A ski area I've been following on twitter has been tweeting pictures
that almost always have horrible white balance.
Example:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/c1w8ikjxoh...Tweet.jpg?dl=0

What the heck are they doing wrong? I have no idea what they're using
to take these shots.

==
Later...
Ron C
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Whitebalance is set to daylight or indoors when it should be set to
cloudy or auto. Snow is actually very blue.

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because they host Usenet flooders.

Kevin McMurtrie wrote:
In article ,
Ron C wrote:

First off, I didn't take this photo.

A ski area I've been following on twitter has been tweeting pictures
that almost always have horrible white balance.
Example:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/c1w8ikjxoh...Tweet.jpg?dl=0

What the heck are they doing wrong? I have no idea what they're using
to take these shots.

==
Later...
Ron C
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Whitebalance is set to daylight or indoors when it should be set to
cloudy or auto. Snow is actually very blue.

Snow is not blue. The sky is blue because the
atmosphere scatters shorter wavelengths of light. Red
or green can pass more directly through the atmospherr,
but blue doesn't. The atmosphere is much like a huge
diffuser, reflecting mostly the blue light in all
direction.

Light rays that are directly from the sun will have all
colors. Hence areas in the shade are more blue than
areas in the sun. And the white balance for direct
sunlight will be close to 5000K, while white balance for
shade will be more like 7500K, and the light itself
might actually be up around 10,000K.

--
Floyd L. Davidson http://www.apaflo.com/
Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska)