Blue skies aren't blue...

[Ogrt48]

I just can't get the skies outside to be blue with my 300D. I have no problem with my A70 :\
I thought it might be the white balance so I tried messing around with that, the rest of the pictures come out great, just not the washed out sky. Any ideas?
Thank you

[drisley]

Post processing, and/or polarizing filters will help.
(The a70 is a point and shoot camera, and as such doesn much more "post processing" in-camera than a dslr, and produces much more saturated images).
I would suggest a velvia action for Photoshop if you have it. Do a google for "Velvia Variations".

[Mark Kemp]

Try a stop or two of underexposure. Your exposure meter will be setting an average for the scene and if the sky is a lot brighter it will burn out. If the sky is now blue but everything else is too dark then this is the problem. Solutions are - shoot in RAW and hope there is enough information to post process the sky back to blue. Try a compromise exposure and then darken the sky and lighten the rest in post process. Buy a grey graduate or ND graduate filter and use this to darken the sky. Shoot on a tripod and take two exposures one normal and one for the sky and blend them in post process.

[Volatile]

I read before that using a smaller aperture will help with color saturation in the sky.

[Hogleg 44]

There are a few photoshop actions and simple processing tricks that will put the blue back, and even make grey sky's a graduated blue.

check http://thepluginsite.com/