Green Tinge In Night-time Shot

[michaelstokes]

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Is anyone seeing this green colouring? Shot in Paris 35mm lux at F1.4, iso640 underexposed-1. A work colleague was using a Nikon D40 and seemed to be getting better images!!

[fotografr]

It is almost undoubtedly being caused by some fluorescent lighting. Not much you can do about that unless you compromise the color in the rest of the image. Of course, you could remove it in post processing if you wanted to spend the time.

[johnastovall]

I see this in night shoots and not just with the M8. Our town uses some type of street lights in some locations which the Canon 5D renders with a strong green hue.

 

Here's one such example.

 

I just take is adding to the mystery of the night's colors.

[AlanJW]

I have seen shifts like this with film as well. Not very predictable. Since there's no other green in the shot, you might try reducing green saturation in PS and see if that helps as a quick fix.

[cam2000]

I am sure it is mix lighting source only...... one can be from mercury lamps giving a green cast and the other is high sodium lamps giving the more yellow orange color.

[mgcd]

Mercury vapor lamps create this green cast ( as Jacques pointed out). Quite difficult to correct.

[LichMD]

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Yes, I've seen this as well.

It, with some work, can be removed in PP

[earleygallery]

Is anyone seeing this green colouring? Shot in Paris 35mm lux at F1.4, iso640 underexposed-1. A work colleague was using a Nikon D40 and seemed to be getting better images!!

 

You should be pleased that your M8 is recording the colours accurately whereas the Nikon is 'processing' the image.

[Guest WPalank]

Michael,

Over all, I see more of a yellow colorcast (my computer proved it, more in a second). Are you referring to the three green stripes of reflection in the water or over all?

 

The way to find the true colorcast in PS is to duplicate the layer (command/control J). Then Filter>Blur>Average. You will get a big block of black (because most of your image is dark). Here's the trick, hit command/control I to invert the color and I get a light blue. Blue is the opposite of yellow not green. If the overall colorcast was green, my inverted color should have been magenta (opposite of green). This way there is no subjectivity, just objective PS color analysis.

 

To take it further and remove the over all colorcast is to change the blue layers Blend mode to "Color" and then reduce the layers opacity somewhere between 8-50 %.

[bradreiman]

You should be pleased that your M8 is recording the colours accurately whereas the Nikon is 'processing' the image.

 

i hate to say it but-thats incorrect. its simply a white balance issue in which the photograph can only display one whitebalance. i doubt you could have seen this false green in the water.....b

[michaelstokes]

Guys, I used Lighroom to process this but have not done any corrections. Delighted that the M8 is capable of capturing the image but the reflections in the water did not exist.

[Guest s.m.e.p.]

You have also ugly purple borders around the lights!

[asfeir]

Mercury lamps. Here is another example from Paris. The street lamp is clearly seen above the green patch on the Seine river

[wparsonsgisnet]

Anyone who is wandering around Paris at night has a lot of nerve to complain about anything.

[asfeir]

Anyone who is wandering around Paris at night has a lot of nerve to complain about anything.

 

Right you are, but it is freezing cold tonight