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Monday, February 7. 2011

My Blue Period of Ohio pics

I don't recall doing anything to change my camera settings, but I guess I did. Perhaps I can term this my brief Ohio Highlands Blue Period and try to make an artistic virtue out of a tech accident:

In the end, Gwynnie kindly managed to salvage some of my pics, and to restore the world to its proper tones:

A few more below the fold -

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My niece has a friend whose camera is going through a green period. It's a white balance thing. I beat the love out of it in PS with a magenta filter to win back some color balance.

You're shooting blue-tinted scenes on an incandescent setting on your camera. Incandescent lights throw off a red hue, which is balance with increased blue saturation in camera. A heavy warming filter in Photoshop will correct the blues...as will using the appropriate color setting on your camera. What is it? The 'night' setting? I don't know...I manually adjust white balance most of the time. Good luck (and nice pictures).

#1 Jephnol (Link) on 2011-02-07 19:02 (Reply)

I kinda like the blue. It captures the mood of Ohio in February.

#2 Smokey (Link) on 2011-02-07 19:50 (Reply)

My niece was liking the green thing, too. I've been doing some Fauxtoshop cross-processing stuff...you know, with serious color shifts like when you develop E-6 emulsions in C-41 processing...so I asked her if the heavy green was intentional. She hasn't spoken to me since, but then she's a kid. Anyway, color reproduction and saturation intensity is subjective. I'm cool. Besides, lately I'm into some projects using serious low-key imaging and muted, moody colors. Not everyone's cup of tea.

#3 Jephnol (Link) on 2011-02-07 20:10 (Reply)

My monitor recently conked out, and before I get to dealing with it, I am using an older monitor which had bad color settings. I kept fiddling and fiddling with the settings on both computer and monitor to try to get the color right. Less bad was the best I could do.

Then, on the umpteenth time that I started up the computer, the monitor automatically adjusted its settings, and apparently also the settings in the computer. I had previously tried "auto" settings on the monitor, to no avail.

#4 Gringo on 2011-02-07 20:29 (Reply)

I did the same thing you did, and just changed the shots to black and white when I ordered prints from shutterfly

#5 peter on 2011-02-07 21:04 (Reply)

It could be something "wrong" with the camera or sensor, but I suspect resetting the camera to the default will fix it.
Find the setup menu on your Lumix, and then keep hitting "down" until you get the "reset" menu.

#6 Douglas2 on 2011-02-07 21:13 (Reply)

I know of at least one Walmart that has a covered shelter in the parking lot with hitches for the Amish buggies. Three sides with a roof and an open side to pull in and hitch the horses.

#7 PoconoJoe on 2011-02-07 21:41 (Reply)

I love the blue in the first pic. Remember Rohmer's "Four Season's" was it? The old poet talking about twilight, the blue hour...

#8 joe on 2011-02-08 04:21 (Reply)

I have a blue period post somewhere...
http://rhhardin.blogspot.com/2011/01/nude-descending-staircase.html

honoring the slight snow in shadow effect.

#9 rhhardin (Link) on 2011-02-08 05:53 (Reply)

A Dobie!! WOOT!!

Great dogs - right up there with Border Collies in my opinion.

#9.1 Tom Francis on 2011-02-08 06:07 (Reply)

There is a photographer named E. Edwin Ennor who is one of the Olympus Masters who did an entire series of "Blue" toned photographs.

Won a bunch of awards and frankly, looked at lot like the ones you did. :>)

#10 Tom Francis on 2011-02-08 06:09 (Reply)

We must have been within speaking distance on that last shot. The women driving the minivan was also Amish.

That's rare, Amish normally just ride. The buggy shot is true of a large fraction of the local Amish, but I doubt it is a majority. The next county over, Holmes, is the center of Amish culture in Ohio. More buggies than minivans there.

If you're interested, Paul Gaus up in Wooster has written a series of detective stories centered on the Holmes Co. Amish. For further info, see:

http://www.plgaus.com/abouttheauthor.html

#11 bob sykes on 2011-02-08 10:05 (Reply)

Is that mules blanket blue?

#12 Leag on 2011-02-08 13:02 (Reply)

i have seen and fotoed blue air in the Netherlands, their night sky as well, often amazingly blue ... something to do with the ice caps perhaps?

#13 La peters (Link) on 2011-02-20 22:01 (Reply)

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My Blue Period of Ohio pics