the lens is much more sensitive to color than your eye ...

in your pix .... i look to the background color/ light source ..... in your better pic.. there is a big white house ... in the other ... that cement pad ... i dont know how or why .... but that impacted the pix ... go figure ...

back in the day.. when i was taking pix of my hosta collection .. the first pic was the name tag .. and then i would take 2 or 3 of each plant ... and then i would upload them to the computer.. and while i was changing the file names.. to the hosta name and date.. i would delete all but the best pic.... one of the beauties of digital .... i noticed the same ... that the pix could be wildly divergent ....

also note.. in the pic with the cement.. the heat of the pad is melting off the wax coating.. that makes them blue ... just an aside ...

also ... if you ever get a dusk.. when the sky is pink.. run out and take pix of your blues .... its a complimentary color.. and intensifies the blue ... it can make them almost look photoshopped ... i think back in the day.. it was the idea of using a tinted lens filter .... but thats the limit of my camera knowledge ...

ken

Ken - the house in the background is actually yellow! So the camera was doing odd things to the color of it too! The concrete curb of the driveway is a small part of what is melting the wax on the leaves - other than in early morning (picture taken around 8:00a.m.) when there is still shade from the big trees across the road, this area is in full sun plus there is heat radiating off both the road and the driveway. I was actually quite surprised that this hosta does so well there. I planted it there years ago now to try to shade out couchgrass that was trying to invade the border from the ditch. The couchgrass died out and the hosta thrives - the moisture from the ditch probably helps a lot!

I will watch for the next ‘red sky at night’ and take pictures then.....

the house in the background is actually yellow!

==>>> its still brighter than the blue and greens of the plants.. and the cement .. and reflecting light back at the camera ......

as to the wax comment.. i was just enabling future hosta mavens.. lol ...

ken

If you are using a phone camera... I fine the automatic white balance can get a little squirrelly. So on my iPhone when I take plant pics that are mostly green... the pic goes ultra blue. If you stick you hand in the shot and let the phone autofocus and set the white balance.. it will look better. But you the. Have to hold down on the screen to hold the focus and WB.

Or... I’ve switched to using the app Camera + where you can manually control the WB

Nevermore44 - I’m probably one of the last people on the planet without a phone that can take pictures :-). The pictures were taken with a small digital Nikon that I don’t mess around with setting - just use it as a point-and-shoot camera....

I usually set my camera to daylight. Automatic can do bizarre things. One of my old cameras turned wood mulch magenta on auto, and if there's a lot of green in the photo, sometimes auto gives everything a blue cast.

No matter what color it is, it's a big, good looking hosta.

Its a white balance issue, If you have your white balance set to automatic, the camera will add "temperature" to it depending on what it sees... if your camera is able, either set it to daylight or cloudy, depending on when you are shooting, OR in Kelvin mode too 5500K