Photographing BLUE products HELP!

[Former_Member]

I've tried every combo of settings I can think of, but for some reason my camera refuses to photography dark blue correctly.

I've been trying to take photos of a new dark (indigo-ish) blue paper flower but in all of my photos the flower look royal blue if anything... very light, not even close.

I'm fairly adept in GIMP & other photo editors but I can't even use the color balance of other color correcting tools to get the color anywhere near what it looks like IRL.

Not having this problem with any other colors.. not even my light blue roses... just the dark blue ones...

Does anyone have any advice on getting a more true to color pic? I know it will obviously always be a little off, but like I said it is coming out way off.

I'm using a point n shoot btw

[Former_Member]

the blue is tricking the camera into shooting at a lighter color. all cameras do this if there's one predominant color in the frame.

to remedy that, you can put a patterned object at equal distance press halfway down to focus and get the light reading. hold it at the halfway mark then turn the camera towards your blue object and shoot.

you can also pull back and get more background in the shot. that does the same thing in that it takes away the blue as the dominant color. you can then crop the image.