Overcast Skies Create Blue Meanies

Photo © Gary M. Pinkston 1998

      Note the shallow, soft-edged shadows typical of shooting under overcast or hazy skies. This softening of shadows is a good thing. However, the same atmospheric conditions that cause the softening also filter a great deal of warmth (red) out of the daylight leaving your subjects with an ugly blue cast in their skin tones. An 81A or 81B sky filter would have eliminated this bluing.