Never did understand why the 737's flight deck comes up as an orangey colour in photos/videos when it's actually white.

 

White balance and assumed color temperature.  Cameras hate high contrast situations, and the inner workings will completely flip out if you leave the automagic to do its thing.  If you ever look in digital camera settings, you'll see different options for fluorescent, cloudy, direct sunlight, and so on (to include auto or manually setting the white balance).  If you don't set that properly, the camera doesn't know what "white" is supposed to look like, and doesn't know how to properly adjust the rest of the image.

 

Here's an example:

 

My cell camera was attempting to adjust to the very contrasted (very bright in spots, and very dark in others) environment, caused by the bright background with dark mountains and clouds.  The result is blue snow in the foreground.  Clearly snow is not blue, but the snow in the foreground looks very blue.

 

...but because my picture says it's blue, you all should go change your environment bitmaps to make your snow more blue!

 

Cameras do not create exact replicas of what is seen.  Ever.

Kyle,

 

Apart from blue snow..., very fascinating view on the mountains! Great picture.

 

And yes, I agree - those NG cockpit lights are white. 

 

 

Apart from blue snow..., very fascinating view on the mountains! Great picture.

 

Thanks!  Gotta love the Alps!

This mountain (Monte Elmo / Helm) is kinda cool because it's right on the Italy-Austria border (behind me, in the picture).

 

If any Italians happen by this - thanks for letting me shred your mountains  B)

BOOM!

 

 

White balance and assumed color temperature.  Cameras hate high contrast situations, and the inner workings will completely flip out if you leave the automagic to do its thing.  If you ever look in digital camera settings, you'll see different options for fluorescent, cloudy, direct sunlight, and so on (to include auto or manually setting the white balance).  If you don't set that properly, the camera doesn't know what "white" is supposed to look like, and doesn't know how to properly adjust the rest of the image.

 

Here's an example:

 

My cell camera was attempting to adjust to the very contrasted (very bright in spots, and very dark in others) environment, caused by the bright background with dark mountains and clouds.  The result is blue snow in the foreground.  Clearly snow is not blue, but the snow in the foreground looks very blue.

 

...but because my picture says it's blue, you all should go change your environment bitmaps to make your snow more blue!

 

Cameras do not create exact replicas of what is seen.  Ever.

Thanks for taking the time to reply! (-:

 

 

Thanks for taking the time to reply!

 

You're welcome!  Gotta make myself helpful sometimes...