UV filter to remove bluish cast?

[I26]

When shooting the last airshow I noticed most of my pics all have the same bluish look to them. Will a UV filter help combat this problem? I am looking for something worthwhile as it is for my 400L. Thanks.

[Wilt]

A skylight filter is what you want to try. UV is filtered by the camera...it already has a UV filter just in front of the sensor. But I rather doubt it is the need for a Skylight filter to remedy the problem.

Did you have Daylight WB set, or were you relying upon the fickle AWB setting?

Post a sample, and include EXIF data.

[I26]

I have attached a sample that I only cropped in ps.

[Saint728]

How about editing the photo instead of using a filter? Not sure why there are two pictures?

http://photography-on-the.net/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=374897&stc=1&d=1245708549

Take Care,
Cheers, Patrick

[I26]

I only posted one, I see you posted two. I could edit it out, but I would rather get it straight from the camera. I have a hard time sometimes noticing color casts. I also would not mind some protection on the front of my 400L.

[Wilt]

I notice that your camera was set to AWB. It does seem bluish. Bumping the color balance via PP a small amount seems to bring it to a more neutral appearance.

[Burnaby]

If your photos are mostly shot in the same quadrant (like a runway approach), then a manual gray or white card reference WB would give you "faithful" results, although doing it in a crowded is easier said than done, especially if cloudy conditions are intermittent.

[RDKirk]

That looked like a gloomy day. It may have been a matter of the subject not getting direct sun.

Average white balance is probably the last choice you want to use. If you think you need a warming filter, just apply a CC factor right in the camera. It will apply no matter what white balance method you use.

[Burnaby]

For me anyway, 13:30 is still high noon for this type of photo, and my worst aircraft in flight photos are between 09:00 and 15:00, so I agree RDKirk.

[siriusdogstar]

yes. look at "uv-haze" filters -- some block more uv than others.

[I26]

There was a low cloud ceiling that day and the sun shined through from time to time. Thanks to everyone for the advice. So setting the WB to daylight may have helped?

[Jon]

Looks to me like there was enough haze in the air that you really would have needed something like a Skylight 1A or even a Skylight 2 to take out the excess blue. With B&W aerial photography, the standard was a Wratten 12 deep yellow filter to cut the haze.

[Saint728]

I only posted one, I see you posted two. I could edit it out, but I would rather get it straight from the camera. I have a hard time sometimes noticing color casts. I also would not mind some protection on the front of my 400L.

I meant two pictures on my post. I couldn't get only one picture? I only posted the one picture but two showed up?

Take Care,
Cheers, Patrick

[tdodd]

It looks to me like it needs editing in any case because the contrast is very low. There is nothing even close to black in the image. A single click on the paintwork with the WB dropper had the colour fixed and then it was a matter of deepening the blacks massively, dialing up clarity and vibrance and adding a little more sharpening to get this....

(results would look better with the original file to work with, and if the original file was raw :))

[Burnaby]

Great PP Tim!

[I26]

Your pp does look good. I did process a similar image in ps and got this result before asking about the filter. I finally was happy to get a better grasp on going full manual shooting, and the blue cast was my enemy.