 - Amalia Sylvia Arriaga Salinas  Contact Amalia Sylvia Arriaga Salinas Amalia Sylvia Arriaga Salinas's Gallery |
How to capture real colors with a digital camera I am new in digital photography. I am learning how to use an Olympus C8080 digital camera. The problem is that I am not getting the real colors in my pictures, I see different colors in the LCD or in the viewfinder from what I see in the real world. I have studied the manual and have tried different approaches. Is is related to the white balance parameter?. I do not think that the camera has any problems. Can somebody please help me or give me a hint of what I can do?. Thank you. Amalia Arriaga de Garcia
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Wing Wong |
Hi Amalia, Are the images you take "tinted" slightly blue, orange, yellow, red, or green? If so, then the problem is the white balance. Make sure it is in AWB or Auto-White-Balance mode. This should work for most pictures. If the pics still come out off, try choosing one of the WB modes which matches the type of light in the area: flourescents, incadescent(light bulbs), daylight, cloudy sunlight, etc. It takes some playing around to figure out if your white balance is too "warm" or too "cool". Wing
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- Amalia Sylvia Arriaga Salinas Contact Amalia Sylvia Arriaga Salinas Amalia Sylvia Arriaga Salinas's Gallery |
Thank you Wing for your advise, I will try to practice more moving the WB parameter. What I have noticed is that the colors are in general darker than what they really are. I also have noticed that if I move the LCD the image has different color. Is the sensor of light in the LCD or in the lens?. Please forgive my ignorance but this has resulted a little more complicated than what I thought. Thanks again, Amalia
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Wing Wong |
Ah... When looking at the LCD on your digital camera to gauge the scene, you need to look at the LCD screen straight on. If you look at the screen at an angle, the image will appear darker/lighter, more or less saturated, etc. This is because of the way that the LCD is constructed. Almost all screens have this to some extent. This doesn't have anything to do with the sensor or the actual picture captured. One good way of getting a better "read" off of the lcd screen is to get one of those lcd hoods. A small rectangular rubber/accordion like tube which fits over the lcd screen. It is black and helps to block outside light so that when you look into the rubber hood, you can more accurately see the true color of the picture you are capturing. The olympus cameras, at least the newer ones, have a tendency to record color slightly differently. This has to do with how sensitive the sensor is to certain colors. This is something, if too visible in the captured image, will need to be corrected with an image editing program like Photoshop Elements or Photoshop later. Hope that helps! ^_^ Wing.
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- Amalia Sylvia Arriaga Salinas Contact Amalia Sylvia Arriaga Salinas Amalia Sylvia Arriaga Salinas's Gallery |
Thank you very much Wing, all the information is very helpful. Best regards, Amalia
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Nancy Grace Chen |
Hi Amalia. Sometimes the white balance can be right, but the colors still don't show up right. The truth is that cameras just don't capture color perfectly. Some do it better than others. I use a Canon PowerShot S50 for snapshots (I carry it around everywhere, just in case) and a Canon Digital Rebel, and I can tell you that my Rebel captures color way better. But the Rebel doesn't always do the best job either. Sometimes attaching a filter helps... but sometimes you just HAVE to fix/enhance it in Photoshop (or some other program) later. Nancy
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Nancy Grace Chen |
Oh oops... I just realized that I don't know if I answered your question, but it's another possibility... Nancy
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- Amalia Sylvia Arriaga Salinas Contact Amalia Sylvia Arriaga Salinas Amalia Sylvia Arriaga Salinas's Gallery |
Thank you Nancy for your comments, all the information I can get helps me. I was worried that I could be the one that was making something wrong. I know that I need more practice, but I also know now that there are options to improve my pictures.Thanks again, Amalia
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