Need help with a color problem...

[Tuffcookie]

Hi all!

I love my new Canon S2 IS but I have noticed when I take a picture of something purple, the object looks blue.

Is there an adjustment I need to make somewhere?

For an example, my granddaughter had a bright purple sweatshirt on but in the picture, it looks blue:

I first noticed this when I took the camera to the Cleveland Zoo Rainforest. There were some purple violets in there and they came out looking blue too.

Any suggestions????

TC

 

[Kelly Grannell]

what mode do you use? If you use landscape mode, sometimes it changes certain colour a bit (purplish blue will have bluer tendencies, greenish anything will turn out to be greener too)

 

[Tuffcookie]

It was early evening. I went with the auto settings but used the flash. Could the flash be the problem?

 

[Kelly Grannell]

It can be, because maybe the white balance becomes confused between the flash colour temperature vs sunlight colour temperature. Try again without flash and see what happen.

In the picture there, I see that certain parts of the sweater are still in purple.

 

[Tuffcookie]

Thanks! I've been playing around with it tonight, inside, and I get a truer purple without the flash.

 

[Laur*Tink*85]

if your camera has a daylight mode try using that b/c that tends to correct the blue cast from natural light and make the colors warmer

 

[robertchance]

I believe its a white balance issue, i can see purple up near the neck, and from what i can see, that purple has sunlite on it, the rest of the shot appears to be in shade., read your manual, white balance chapter, and play with that

 

[Tuffcookie]

Robertchance,
Thanks, I'll check that out!

TC

 

[kbnovak]

Tuffcookie,

Purple is one of the most difficult colors for a digital sensor to reproduce. That being said, the color looks fine-and purple-on my calibrated laptop screen. Many times the calibration of the monitor being off just a teeny bit will make it very difficult to accurately view purple.

Try this: Print the picture WITHOUT doing any editing/correction etc. to it. What does it look like, then. If it's purple, then your worries are over and you just need to calibrate your monitor or live with the slightly skewed hue that it displays. If it prints blue, you need to more accurately set your white balance. Again, the colors blue and purple are very close in the spectrum, and being of extremely tiny wavelength may be difficult to accurately capture.

HTH

Kevin

 

[manning]

Tuffcookie,

Purple is one of the most difficult colors for a digital sensor to reproduce. That being said, the color looks fine-and purple-on my calibrated laptop screen. Many times the calibration of the monitor being off just a teeny bit will make it very difficult to accurately view purple.

Try this: Print the picture WITHOUT doing any editing/correction etc. to it. What does it look like, then. If it's purple, then your worries are over and you just need to calibrate your monitor or live with the slightly skewed hue that it displays. If it prints blue, you need to more accurately set your white balance. Again, the colors blue and purple are very close in the spectrum, and being of extremely tiny wavelength may be difficult to accurately capture.

HTH

Kevin

I saw this discussion on another site before and the same thing happened. purple came out blue on the screen but printed purple. Could be it. Let us know what happens.

 

[Tuffcookie]

Thanks to everyone for your input. I tried printing the photo out but the shirt printed out blue.
After some playing around I have discovered that I can get a better purple without using the flash. When I started using the flash I played around with the different modes and found that selecting landscape gave me a better purple than any other selection.

Here is the sweatshirt shot with the flash on landscape mode:

I really appreciate everyone's help!

TC