Photo mistake of using the wrong color setting on my digital camera

by Steve
(Austin, TX)

I was taking pictures outside of our local high school before a basketball game, so I set my camera setting on daylight.

Then I went inside to do take photographs of the game. I did remember to change my ISO setting to the highest setting on my camera to get a high shutter speed. I've taken plenty of blurry photos inside before.

I have been getting lots of great tips on taking digital photography from your digital photo tips web site. The mistake was that I left the camera set on daylight.

The gym has those weird colored lights, I think they were mercury vapor lights. My photos had really strange colors, like purplish and greenish. I tried to do some photo editing by using the auto color balance in my software, but the colors of the people never looked quite right.

As you say in some of your photography articles, making mistakes is the best way to learn to take better photos. I was excited to get some great actions shots, but ticked that they would have been better photos if the color wasn't so bad.

Thanks Better Digital Photo Tips!