HELP Please!

I have a Canon 5D with a 500mm Tamaron lens and like to take pictures of birds that come to my back deck. Know almost nothing about photography and would like to ask if anyone knows of a cheap way to get rid of the yellow tint from my flash, canon 430EX flash. I'm also not familiar with forms, so please forgive me, if I have posted this in the wrong section.

Hummingbird: http://www.grovestreet​.com …icview.jsp?albu​m=20021982

Join date Aug 2007, Posts 1? Long time lurker, first time poster? Just kidding! Those are some very nice shots! I don't notice a yellow tint. Could it be that your monitor could stand to be calibrated?

You should be posting a lot more of those. I've never had that kind of luck with humming birds.

I would say that they look pretty good from here but it you want you can cool them by reducing your White Balance or Do it also in Post processing I would Try 5300 and see if you like that better.

What is your white balance set for? try setting it for flash, or if it is already try the auto white balance.Good Luck!

Hi nice shots but no tint here of any colour...

I have tried the White Balance from 6000 to 3800 and from ISO:50 to ISO:200 I have a lot of trees and there is NOT much light at 6:30 AM

Are you familiar with setting a custom white balance using a gray card? I do that every chance I get (when it's practical, otherwise I usually use AWB).

Phil Light wrote in post #5764341
Are you familiar with setting a custom white balance using a gray card? I do that every chance I get (when it's practical, otherwise I usually use AWB).

Phil Light
I think the color tint is caused by my flash and was wondering if a filter or setting would take care of this yellowish coloring on a green hummingbird

egrow wrote in post #5764354
Phil Light
I think the color tint is caused by my flash and was wondering if a filter or setting would take care of this yellowish coloring on a green hummingbird

Could you post a good example of what you're seeing? Of the shots I looked at, I don't see a yellow tint. That's why I tend to wonder if the problem is your monitor and not your flash. Either way, I still think that even if your flash is causing a slight tint, you'll have much better luck setting a custom WB (which is free btw) rather than buying a filter and hoping it solves the problem.

Look at it this way, you're mixing ambient light with flash. Whenever you do that you are most likely exposing the image with two different colors of light. This is difficult, if not imposible to fix later. Depending on how much of the light in the scene comes from your flash and how much comes from the ambient daylight, the difference you're seeing will vary from shot to shot. If you are using a filter, you're stuck with that amount of correction. If you use a custom WB you can set it differently depending on the difference in distance you are to the subject, or the difference in how intense your flash is set. Does this make sense at all? I'm starting to think I'm rambling.

Also, are you shooting jpeg or raw? You'll have a lot of room to play with white balance and tint if you're shooting raw.

i don't see any tint either. those shot are terrific too. you should post some on here like Phil says .

Bill

Maybe he is talking about the "yellow" reflection on the hummingbird caused by the use of flash.

I rarely use flash for anything so maybe someone here could help him with that.

Oops, almost forgot.

Yes, I agree they look good to me as well. I see nothing wrong with it.

Shoot in RAW and you can change any of the colors. These look a little cool to me, too much blue.

What Mitch said...

What Mitch said...
Calibrate you monitor.
Until you do, you won't really know what you are doing.