Color/Light casting in a photo

[AndyWear]

Hi guys,

I know this is a very noob question, but......

 

What do you guys do to remove a color cast from a photo?

 

The situation here is:  Nighttime, theres a bright orange light that is lighting up the whole street.  When you take a picture of the city, the image comes out orange. How do you remove that orange light?

 

What I did was I took a custom white balance card against that orange light and it came out all weird. I'm not sure if I'm doing it right. Its the first time I've tried using the custom wb feature.

 

My other choice is to turn the orange light off throughout the whole city which is not a viable option. lol

 

3rd choice.....I couldn't do this in camera raw.  I tried reducing the orange, but you lose alot of information when you do that.

 

Any help?

[ViRuS X]

I have never used that custom WB feature and since you already captured a RAW image you can try two things :

 

1- simply change white balance Temp. Slider in lightroom to add more blue

 

Or

 

2- use Split toning by changing the upper part "Highlight" in the following way :

- Hue slider to be on blue color (around 220-225)

- then turn saturation slider up until you like what you see.

 

Of course you can do better job in Photoshop by masking but it is complicated to be explained here

 

 

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[weinhous]

Hi guys,

I know this is a very noob question, but......

 

What do you guys do to remove a color cast from a photo?

 

The situation here is:  Nighttime, theres a bright orange light that is lighting up the whole street.  When you take a picture of the city, the image comes out orange. How do you remove that orange light?

 

What I did was I took a custom white balance card against that orange light and it came out all weird. I'm not sure if I'm doing it right. Its the first time I've tried using the custom wb feature.

 

My other choice is to turn the orange light off throughout the whole city which is not a viable option. lol

 

3rd choice.....I couldn't do this in camera raw.  I tried reducing the orange, but you lose alot of information when you do that.

 

Any help?

 

> white balance card

Shoot the card in the ambient lighting in raw mode.

Use Lightroom (or Capture One ?) to create and use a custom white-balance for that lighting condition by pointing the software at the white card.

[AndyWear]

hi weinhous,

thank you for reply.

Do you mean I should shoot at the white balance card away from that orange light?  Or any light source.  And then  place it as a starting point for white balancing in light room?

 

Then use the eye dropper tool on the image I took?

[AndyWear]

I have never used that custom WB feature and since you already captured a RAW image you can try two things :

 

1- simply change white balance Temp. Slider in lightroom to add more blue

 

Or

 

2- use Split toning by changing the upper part "Highlight" in the following way :

- Hue slider to be on blue color (around 220-225)

- then turn saturation slider up until you like what you see.

 

Of course you can do better job in Photoshop by masking but it is complicated to be explained here

 

 

Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

 

I couldn't get the temperature route to work for me, but I'll give that split toning and see if that works.

[Guest all8]

You can take a photo of the grey card in the desired "neutral" light and then, in LR, use the eyedropper to select that as the White Balance reference.

 

Or

 

You can do the same thing using the Custom WB of the camera, taking a setting from a grey card in the desired light. Measuring from the Orange light would not work, probably has the opposite of the desired effect?

 

First option is probably easier I think, but you can try both at the same time (set WB and then take a test shot) and then fix it up in LR if needed.

[weinhous]

hi weinhous,

thank you for reply.

Do you mean I should shoot at the white balance card away from that orange light?  Or any light source.  And then  place it as a starting point for white balancing in light room?

 

Then use the eye dropper tool on the image I took?

Put the white balance card in your subjects' position in the weird light and flat-on to your camera.

 

Use Lightroom's eyedropper tool on the card to tell Lightroom that the card should be rendered as white. The Temperature and Hue sliders will jump to the positions needed to make the card white despite the weird lighting.

[Golem]

If you remove the orange light from a scene toadally

lit with orange light, you'll have no light at all. All this

fussing over white balance can't change that.

 

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