Are these pictures too blue?

[JonW]

When I had this series of pictures printed, I thought they looked too blue. So I pulled up my original shots, and to me they see a little on the blue side.

In this shot, the building looks bluish, as well as the shadows on the building and to some extent the white wall tires on the truck.



This shot also looks too blue, especially the bare metal areas on the plane fuselage. The wings look fine, but the fuselage looks blue. The car in the background also looks too blue.



I'd appreciate your thoughts.

[Anbesol]

pick a white spot in the picture - if theres a blue hue in it, then its too blue. In the upper one there is a lot of white, and it looks almost exactly neutral but there is a very slight blue hue in it. The second one is harder to tell, levels adjustments can fix this very easily.

[SmartWombat]

Shadows often look blue, because they're lit by blue skylight and not sunlight.
Adjusting the whole image would give you the wrong colours in the highlights.

I use split toning on Lightroom to give different colour shading to highlights and shadows.

[caleb]

Where are you getting these printed? I had some pictures printed from Walmart and got the same results as you. A local shop prints them out identical to how I see them on my computer. I believe it's due to the big expensive printers auto "correcting" the pictures.

[JonW]

I got them printed at Walgreens. I did some experimenting with color balance, and that helped. I'll do that before I get prints next time and see what happens.

[GB1]

Not necessary too blue, but too cold. Even the greens have a decidedly cool tint to them. This can happen on cloudy days sometimes. Not sure how to set your WB to prevent it. You could warm them up a tad in post processing.

G