"Colour cast in images?" Topic

What causes this??

I was sent an image of some work I commissioned with a painter. (Great result and I am really, really pleased with the figures…This is not a discussion on the painting style or standard , just the photographs)

The image he sent me before shipping the figures is: (slightly cropped for convenience)

Note the guy in the top left and the girl in the bottom right.
Then this image of those same 2 figures taken with my camera.

Having the figures in hand the second image is an exact colour/colour match for the real thing (This image was taken on Macro, under daylight bulbs with auto white balance calibrated on the camera). I thought it was my eyes (or at least my 1 good eye) or my monitor, but asking other people they agree with the strong blue tone in the original image.

Note the totally different tone of blue and the different white on the two figures.
Why???

Lighting???

Some flashes have an unpleasant effect on blue tones. No idea why, but someone will no duobt tell us shortly.

Quasi-non sequitur:
What figure range do these belong to?
Can't recall seeing those particulair sculpts before…

I would agree with jdpintex. Angle or position of the light(s). Reflection from the blue wings could have cast a blue tone onto the adjacent figures.

The blues?
You are complaining about the blues?

Look at those skin tones man! It now looks like they are dropouts from Jersey Shore!
That is what caught my eye first…

I am NOT complaining about anything. It is a question about the colour cast in the image.

Volstagg: They are from the sadly defunct Cell 1999 range.

Todd636: But the wings (actually the headdress) is not blue it is grey, there is no "blue" as such on these 2 figures.

I am just curious as to how the colour could be so different from image to reality. Looking at the shadows on the base cloth there are multiple light sources so it does not appear to result from a flash or reflective issue.

A blue cast can be caused by natural light as the sun is setting, I've read.

Artificial lights have all sorts of color variation. It was quite common for lighting made for film to have a blue or green tinge to adjust for the chemistry of the film. Some people prefer cool light for home decoration too. It is also possible that the balance was adjusted by the camera or on the computer too.

What causes this??

Some combination of the lighting used when the photograph was taken, the camera used to take the photograph and post camera processing.

Lighting, flash, computer monitor settings, etc.

Could be the white balance setting on the camera, weather the flash goes a millisecond before the shutter opens or after it, could also be the setting that defines the speed of the film, and any auto exposure settings on it