Why r my pics yellowish

[RottenApples]

Using a Olympus C-350 3.2 megapix, why r the pics turning up a lil yellow as if it is stained with driftwood. VEn my reef looks yellow with this cam. How can i fix this. My tanks r really bright so it shouldnt bethe lack of light that causes this. Why arrr???? help plz...can u fill me in...

[Aeon]

White balance something wrong?

[robin]

Check your white balance.
If you are using daylight tubes, likely your white balance is set to tungsten, thus the orangy/yellowish color.

switch white balance to daylight

robin

[benny]

Perhaps you can attach a picture or a link to the picture and we can help you. Otherwise, we can only guess what the problem is and can't give you an effective solution.

There's a good chance your lighting source has a color temperature closer to 3500K.

Cheers,

[RottenApples]

This 2.5 feet tank has 1-36 watt Phillips 865 PC and 2-18 watt Arcadia 7500k. This pic is a year old. The tank has been totally reaquascaped 2months ago.

[_Uncle Party_]

hi

different lenses and brands favours different colours. some are tinted yellow, others orange, blue and green. i own an olympus too and i noticed it tints yellow/orange at times. never blue or green. so perhaps that's wat you are experiencing, rather than the colour of ur tubes.

the effectivenss of the cam's white-balance varies greatly depending on the different brands. i'm not sure about ur model, but if allows you to set what white is by focusing on a piece of tissue or paper, it would be more accurate.

if thats too much of a hassle, you can easily adjust the balances in photoshop. i used "auto colour", not "auto level", for ur pic.

[RottenApples]

The ADA competition does not allow any editing of the pics. Can i adjust thewhite balance with the cam. If yes, how??? thanx

[robin]

You might want to check if "editing of pics" includes color correction.
Most of the time editing that is not allowed includes digitally cutting, duplicating/cloning plants, changing layout etc.

Also, Uncle is right. Olympus cameras usually have a slight yellowish tint and panasonic ones has a slight greenish tint.

Robin