indoor shots

[jamesev]

Sometimes indoors shots end up with a yellowish / orangish tint. Is this causes by indoor lights or what and can it be removed by lower f or WB?

[RecurrentNerve]

This is down to the lighting, yes; it's essentially a WB issue. Shoot RAW and you can adjust it to perfection, problem solved.

[OsmosisStudios]

Originally Posted by RecurrentNerve

This is down to the lighting, yes; it's essentially a WB issue. Shoot RAW and you can adjust it to perfection, problem solved.

Depends on the degree of tint. If you can, shoot a custom WB for times when things are coming out VERY orange, but still shoot RAW so that you can fine tune.

[NicoleScraps]

I had this problem yesterday taking photos of my kids at an indoor Halloween party. I took a quick shot of a white table cloth and it showed up about the color of rust on my lcd screen. It was really bad in that room.
I have not figured out how to set a custom wb yet, so I just fix it in PP, as much as I can anyways.

[SusanH1970]

Originally Posted by NicoleScraps

I have not figured out how to set a custom wb yet, so I just fix it in PP, as much as I can anyways.

Put your lens on manual focus (autofocus won't work because it'll be looking for an area of contrast), fill the frame with a grey card, take a photo of it (I usually do this with AWB on, doesn't really matter, though). Not sure if it's exactly the same in your camera, but possibly close enough: View the shot of the grey card in your LCD, open the menu, go to custom white balance, hit the Set button. Then simply hit the WB button and choose Custom. Done! Hope this helps.

Don't forget to put your lens back on autofocus if you don't manually focus.

[scootermcq]

I quite often will gell the flash CTO to match the inside lights. Makes balance much easier if both the flash & interior lights are the same color.

[Michael_2010]

Originally Posted by jamesev

Sometimes indoors shots end up with a yellowish / orangish tint. Is this causes by indoor lights or what and can it be removed by lower f or WB?

That is caused by the type of lights in the room. An incandescent light will give off that yellowish tint. A fluorescent light gives off a bluish tint. Your camera should have a WB setting for each condition. But, do shoot in RAW so you will still have control after the shot.

[ALBERT WARD]

I will really appreciate some help from you guys! I recently upgraded from a Kodak C340 to a Canon EOS 350D and for me it was like going from a Beetle to a Rolls Royce! I am generally getting the hang of it but one of my main reasons for this upgrade was to enable me to take better indoor photo's because it is totally terrible with a normal point and shoot. Being a trigger happy dad who always want to take photo's of the kids, I battle with one thing. Taking pics of the kids during prize giving or their school concerts. It is a hair raising event in it self. 90% of the time you end up in a school hall where the lighting is terrible to say the least and you either have to be pleased with a seat way at the back of the hall or you end up sitting in a row of people where every one seems to go to the toilet or tuck shop constantly!
For this same reason I bought a Canon EF 75-300mm f/4-5.6 III Ultrasonic lens so that when I do end up at the back of the hall I would at least be able to take some shots.
But now my question is how to cope with the terrible light. One can open the Aperture and push up the ISO but you also need a fast shutter speed to catch/freeze movement. The problem is sometimes that if you open the aperture on this lens one ends up with bad DoF. So closing the aperture means slower shutter speed = blurred images!!
To find a seat right in front is not always ideal as one tends to shoot "upwards" plus you have this old lady constantly telling you that you are in her way. PLEASE HELP!!!

Albert

[RecurrentNerve]

The only thing you can really do is keep the aperture as wide as possible while maintaining a workable DoF and really bump up that ISO. If you shoot RAW and have some decent software (Adobe Camera Raw or Lightroom) you should be able to deal with any noise.

[RichardTaylor]

@ ALBERT WARD

(1) Shoot RAW to give you some leeway when PPing.
(2) ISO to maximum.
(3)Aperture priority (or manual) and aperture wide open. (if you are a fair way away you should have enough DOF) If not then just concentrate on one subject
(4) Take what ever shutter speed you can. If you can use a mono pod then use it.
(5) Check your histogram to see if your exposure is in the ball park.

If you find you have ISO or shutter speed to spare then either increase the shutter speed or reduce or ISO or shoot at a smaller aperture. My first choice would be to increase the shutter speed.

As RecurrentNerve says you most likely will need to some noise reduction when PPing or even convert the image to B&W.

If you find you don't have enough light to work with then you will need a faster (lower F number) lens.. Now days I shoot low light events with F2 lenses (and occasionally with an F2.8 - for my wide angle shots)