Why are my digital photos pink when I take pictures outside in winter (snow)?

Answer 1

Pink? Mine are usually blue in color.

Anyway, your Digital camera sees everything as a shade of gray so when you photograph snow, which is a bright white, the camera compensates and makes everything in the photo the wrong color (pink in your case.)

Two ways to fix this are:

1) If your camera has a snow settings (read the manual) then select that setting when photographing pictures with lots of white snow.

2) Overexpose the picture 1.5 - 2 stops (increasing the aperture size of the lens.) This is what the auto setting is doing on cameras with one. This is also referred to as increasing the exposure compensation.

If your camera does not allow for exposure compensation or have a snow setting, then take lots of photos inside this winter.

Good luck.

Answer 2

Change your white balance settings. Most cameras have different white balance modes that can be used for different situations such as your problem with the snow, cloudy days, sunshine and different indoor lights. If you cant fix it on the camera a lot of photo editing programs can correct it.

Answer 3

Check your white balance setting, make sure it is not on fluorescent. Make sure it is on auto, daylight, or maybe cloudy.

Also you can try exposure compensation. Try adding a little at first, then increase until it looks good. Be careful not to blow out the whites.

Worst case scenario, you can correct the color cast in post-processing.

Answer 4

Check your White Balance setting. Refer to your owners manual.

Answer 5

You probably have it on a setting that makes it pink somehow.
what camera model is this?