As most of us know, our cameras do not always reproduce the scene we are capturing as we experience it. Regardless of how sophisticated or expensive our tools, often we have color casts or lack of contrast. Often, we are actually responsible for the adding the color casts, for example if we use graduated Neutral Density Filters – only the most expensive are truly neutral, the rest tend to add a magenta color cast. Other examples are Blue/Gold Polarizers, or Big Stopper 10 stop ND filters.
Natural Color Casts happen in twilight, sunrise and sunset or at night, when in camera white balance can get thrown off quite badly, especially in mixed lighting conditions.
Of course, some of these color casts at sunrise or sunset make our images look fantastic, the brilliant warm colors are so appealing, but are they authentic?
