Why is this color????

I went to the Rockies this weekend and I was in a very good place for taking photos of some sheep. BUT all photos has this kind of opacity and blue color as shown in the picture below. WHY IS THAT?? Should I use a particular lens or filter? I have a Canon EOS Rebel XT with a kit lens 28-90mm.

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what time of day did you take the shot?

Nancy

My first question would be, what was your white balance setting?
One thing to remember - on a sunny day, everything in the shade is lit only by the blue sky (this is why the "shade" WB setting is a higher color temp than "sun"). It appears the sun was to your right, and you were shooting the shaded side of the mountain. Hence the blue snow.

Did you try adjusting the color temp of the RAW file?

Looks like a classic example of 'Auto WB' getting it wrong to me - Did you shoot RAW? If so you can easily 'rescue' them - If they are jpg's then you may struggle with colour balance settings to make them better.

Thanks for the help!

The sun was on the right side; it was around 8pm... and I did not shoot RAW. mmmhhh.... As I can see, I'll have to learn how to play with the White Balance a little bit . I'm not sure how to do it, but I'll try it in the afternoon, shooting at the city!

It looks like your highlights are blownout, overexposure. If you had your white balance on auto, and you had enough sky in the shot, then it will overexpose the scene and through off the meter. Try changing the WB to daylight, then metering more of the ground area of the deer then use that reading to expose the entire scene. Also watch the histogram, it will show you when you take the shot where your highlights are if you blew them out.

Thanks, Robin! I'll try that then. As I'm new on this, there are hundreds of things to think about while taking a picture and obviously you can miss the right things. Actually, my wife, who doesn't care anything about photography and uses always the automatic setting of the camera, takes better pictures sometimes!!

Mao wrote:
Actually, my wife, who doesn't care anything about photography and uses always the automatic setting of the camera, takes better pictures sometimes!!

Don't that just make you mad. The best way to counter that. Take a course in Basic Photography. Find an Arts Center or someplace that gives community photography lessons, or a photography club in your area. And Study online as much as you can.

The best advice anyone can give you is this: Shoot in RAW, and learn how to process RAW images.