Any idea why I got this yellowish atmosphere in my photos? Something wrong with my settings??Any suggestions are most appreciated. E-30 + Zuiko 12-60.Omar

You'll have to tell us about how you are processing, white balance settings, that sort of thing. It looks a little like a magenta cast. If you have the raw, try adjusting the white balance in Viewer 2 or something else and see what happens.

Thanks. I use jpg out of camera. No raw. WB: Cloudy.

on the sidewalk, and the glare on windows, it seems more sunny than cloudy... set to cloudy, it would throw off the WB a bit.Under variable conditions like the sun playing hide and seek, You could be better off shooting auto WB and jpeg + RAW for insurance. -- Art P "I am a creature of contrast, of light and shadow. I live where the two play together, I thrive on the conflict"

Omar Gwrote:WB: Cloudy.Wrong WB for the scene. With some careful PP you can improve even JPEG, but not as much as if it would have been taken in raw.

I have E-620 which should be almost the same regarding picture options and qualities like your E-30.My practical experience says thatCloudy WBwas suitable more forovercast conditions, when lighting has quit strong bluish cast. This was not your case, seems you had relatively good Sunlight - so I would useAuto WBor evenDaylight WB.

As already been said, use "sunny", "AWB" or maybe even better in this case: the "shadow" setting. It seems to be sunny weather but subject is standing in some kind of shadow (no direct sunlight on her) so that could be a good choice.Of course, try Jpeg + RAW, and then play with WB settings in PP, you can that way both "repair" a bad WB choice afterwards, as well as learn from your "desktop work" how to in practise set WB in the future. Trying and learning, so easy in digital it´s almost too good to be true (most of the time at least)Good luck!Nice portraits by the way, maybe she´s a bit shy(?), try to ease her a bit so she´ll relax a bit and thus be able to 'open up' her expression just a bit moreOmar Gwrote:Any idea why I got this yellowish atmosphere in my photos? Something wrong with my settings??Any suggestions are most appreciated. E-30 + Zuiko 12-60.Omar

So small a white balance error is very easy to correct without any loss of quality. Do so using the "colour balance" tab in Olympus Viewer. Alternatively you can overlay a nice cool filter using the "colour filter" tab.I often use the cloudy setting in daylight to get warmer pictures. This behavior is consistent between all Olympus models. Then again I never shoot JPEG only.Also you might want to check out the "portrait" image mode setting while taking portraitsLess contrast. More creamy smoothness, less convincing at first, more appealing once used wisely.

As others have said, 'Cloudy' WB was not a good choice in this kind of light. There is plenty of warmth from the daylight and you should have used 'Auto' or 'Daylight', as another suggested.In regard to shooting this as a Jpeg vs Raw, when color balance is not way off it is very easy to correct WB in post processing a Jpeg. I use Photoshop Elements 8 (I'm awaiting delivery of Elements 9) and I would either reduce the Yellow channel in saturation, or use the Color Cast correction tool by clicking on different areas of the sidewalk behind her until her skin tone looks correct -- sidewalks usually are a neutral gray color.Very nice portraits of a pretty young lady!God Bless, Greg http://www.imagismphotos.com http://www.mccroskery.zenfolio.com http://www.pbase.com/daddyo

The Auto WB on my E30 is set to A-2 and G+2 to counter the magenta cast. My other WB (sun, cloudy etc) settings are zero. I'm nearly always on Auto though. Someone on this forum recommended this setting a while ago and it seems to work well enough. Regards Peter N.

Omar,Not sure if you have PSE but you can download a 30 day trial of version 9. What it can do is let you open up the jpeg in camera raw. It will be a lot easier to set the the white balance while in camera raw even though its a jpeg.I was doing a demo for our computer club on fixing camera phone images that a person took. One was exposed okay and the other was under exposed. I was demoing PSE9 and I did it several way in Elements and the last was opening the 3MP camera phone jpeg and that did a better job on both images.BTW the 30day trial is not crippled and fully functional.Ciao, Lou Cioccio

Over years of taking suset ands cloud photographs, usually over the South Saskatchewan River, with the E-3 and E-5. Often, what appeared pinkish and reddish and reddish-orange to the eye looked yellowish, especially on the E-3 (E-1 tends to be better, and the E-5 is different from that, but also generally better.Some excellent suggestions for PP adjustments have been suggested, and also the benefits of shooting RAW.or RAW+JPG (the best way - you can then discard the RAWs for images that came out just fine, and still have the RAWs needed to easily adjust others.) Here are some ways to improve your initial takes.One instant solution is usually taking a CWB (Custom White Balance) reading from a white card (I keep a simple folded piece of white cardboard in my gadget bag.) This works very well, especially on the E-5 (the E-3 is finicky about the tilt and focus of such a card), and tends to dramatically improve the realism of your colour balance. A more precise fix - if you use Lightroom or Photoshop - is to use X-rite's Colour Checker Passport. The improvement over using just a white card is subtle, but real.One suggestion for relaxing your subject is to remove the camera from your eye so that you can interact more naturally, and either aim by feel or by using live view, and just keep clicking until the camera becomes less of a focus and cause of concern. If you smile and act naturally, eventually your subject will. -- erichK saskatoon, canadaPhotography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.W. Eugene Smith, Dec 30, 1918 to Oct 15, 1978.http://erichk.zenfolio.com/http://www.fototime.com/inv/7F3D846BCD301F3underwater photos: http://www.scubaboard.com/gallery/showgallery.php/cat/500/ppuser/5567

Thank you all for your excellent comments. I remember adopting the cloud WB setting, as my default, based on a suggestion that I've read on this forum. Maybe it was by someone living in a region of the world where it's alway cloudy. I've adjusted the settings and I think I'm doing well.Omar

Is it too simple a suggestion to move the slider a little towards blue in your photo-editing program? In Photoshop that is what I would try. My color perception isn't very good but I can tell when skin is yellow and moving the slider towards blue(and away from yellow) seems to solve the problem. Of course it might change something that is supposed to be yellow, but I haven't found that to be much of a problem. -- MRD