Blue/Green looks shift by device

[Tom S]

The back room had walls painted green. A tungsten light was used with CTB. A hazer was used. The scene looked green to the human eye and green on the RED Epic Dragon, but a Nikon DSLR had the monitors come out blue. Anyone have any idea what causes the different looks?

 

[James Falco]

White balance?

 

[Lee Saxon]

A guess: do you have the Nikon on auto white balance? It can get confused under strong color casts like this. I never use it unless I'm shooting raw (so stills).

 

[Tom Gleeson]

I am guessing as you are using tungsten lighting and that the Dragon camera was set to to a 3200 Kelvin white balance. This would make your tungsten light white but as you have added a green gel you get a nice green. The production monitor in shot as well the onboard monitors are showing quite blue as their native colour balance is likely 6500 Kelvin which is a quite dramatic shift towards blue. The Nikon camera is stupid so it accurately portrays the colour shift. What is amazing and a valuable lesson for any photographer is that the human eye is connected to a brain/computer that can look at the monitor and "automatically" correct or "white balance" the colour shift of the monitors so they look normal. It takes some practice and training to over ride the brains propensity to adjust what you see to what it expects to see.

 

[Marc Wielage]

This can be fixed in post.

 

[rand thompson]

All Blue,

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All Green,

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Black and White,

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Pink/Magenta,

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[rand thompson]

Lime Green,

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Tea Rose Orange,

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Purple,

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Teal,

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Stranger Things Look,

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