Yellow Photos

Illumination plus check the "white setting" in your camera. Some let you to adjust the white setting based on what kind of light (indoor, outdoor) etc.

 

Sometimes energy saving light bulbs give off that "yellow" glow ~ if you don't have them, try getting more lights; I have one of those lamps that have 5 bulbs at the top and you can swivel them around to get better lighting. I usually turn them all on and get a bendable desk lamp (with a I think 80 watt lightbulb, really high so be careful with it getting real hot and don't put it to close to your dolls) to get good lighting in the front/side/down/up/etc. of the dolls ^^

Sometimes they will come out yellow, but some editing in photoshop will fix that in a jiff!

Oh, and having a white background (like a white sheet) helps a lot too

 

It's not just energy-saving bulbs; indoor lightbulbs in general come out yellow (unless they're fluorescent, of course; then you have a blue cast to deal with). Check your camera's settings for a 'white balance' or 'lighting compensation' setting or something similiar, and set it to 'indoor' or 'tungsten'. Most digital cameras have something to this effect. It should help with the yellow - it won't get rid of all of it, but it should remove a good bit of it.

 

If you have Photoshop, there's also a pretty simple way to adjust for white balance during post processing that I typically use when I forget to adjust it manually on the camera. If you'd like me to walk you through it, let me know!

 

I believe a lot of us would. Would you mind posting it?

 

No problem! Give me a day to make some screen shots (I have a ton of yellow photos from the LA Dolpa that need help), and I'll make a new thread!

 

If your camera (and computer, I'll come back to that) supports it I'd suggest shooting in RAW as opposed to jpeg, because a RAW file retains all the image information it allows you far more flexibility when post processing while a jpeg compresses an image and dumps a lot of the information to save on size.
Photoshop CS and iphoto (as well as other programs) will allow you to edit the white balance post capture with a simple slider interface. It's a very simple way to get rid of colour casts and 'warm up' or 'cool down' an image depending on the look you're going for.

I'm guessing you're just shooting with your normal household lights? The light bulbs typically used in homes produce a very 'warm' light (see colour temperature) to be sure you get a more natural light 'daylight' bulbs/lamps are really worth investing in.

If setting your camera's white balance to 'Tungsten' doesn't improve the colour cast see if it has a custom white balance setting. This will take it's white balance settings from the next picture you take, what you'd want to do ideally then is take a picture of a grey card but if you have something laying around that's a mid grey that should help. (it's worth noting that grass apparently has the same tonal value as the grey used on grey cards so if you're shooting outside that can be used in the stead of a grey card). This should in theory cancel out the yellow cast you're getting, though the best solution is to really get some proper lights that wont cause a colour cast in the first place.