Dark Colors Turn Blue In My Photos.

Blue is one of the colder color temperatures. You'll usually see that when using LED or even fluorescent lighting. It's kind of odd if you're getting blue using natural light. If you are it most definitely is the white balance as others have mentioned above. Some camera's have presets where you pick the one what works best or you can put the camera in Auto WB. I'm assuming you're stuck in a bad WB preset in a bad manually adjusted WB value for the light you're using.

If you can manually adjust your WB though, that can be helpful. For example if you were indoors using incandescent light bulbs at night your shots may be coming out yellow or orange. Where ever your camera is set to right now which is causing the blue with natural light might very well cancel out the orange from incandescent light resulting in a 'normal' colored shot. If you're getting blue with your light, try to use a 'warmer' WB like the Sun or Lightbulb setting (higher color temperature) to cancel out the blue.

Hey Louie: What size light bulb would you suggest? I have a 40 watt Daylight one now, but I can always take it back. Thanks.

Ok. So things are much better. Got the batteries, switched light bulbs, adjusted the WB and started shooting. Big improvement. Most everything I own is toned so getting the correct color has been tough. Alot better now. Seems easier to capture the correct color of the toning on silver coins. Copper is a different story. I will still need to work on the copper. It's not right yet. But I'll keep doing the trial and error thing.

Thanks you guys for helping me out with this. Really appreciate it.

Newbismatic, thanks for your reply. Ummmm..... What is a 18% gray card? I can go to Corvallis tomorrow to the camera shop to get one if they have it, but I don't know what it is. I've been there a few times already. Problem is the one girl that works there part time is an Oregon State University senior and I have trouble concentrating on camera issues when I'm around her. There is a guy that works there also, maybe I'll get him to help me. So, I'll post what I found out about this gray card thing. Thanks again.

I don't know if this will help but I find that if there are blue objects close by my image is blue. Same if there is red close by and so on with other colors. I just move the camera to a different angle until that color no longer appears.

Picking up the correct color at least now and looking better.

the color definitely looks better. Are you happier with the photos now as far as white balance?

in my opinion the color looks pretty good, now you just need to adjust lighting to get the picture exactly the way you want it. But I think the WB is pretty dernh close if not right where you need it to be