With a daylight white balance setting and shooting in a deep overcast conditions, pictures tends to have a blue or blue-cyan cast. A 'cloudy' white balance setting usually solves this problem, but I never switch from the daylight setting to cloudy because it's just one more thing to deal with. Focus, composition, and exposure take priority. I remove any blue/cyan cast in ACR or Photoshop in post-processing. I photographed this porcupine in Montana during one of my winter wildlife workshops in the 90's, and I was shooting Fujichrome Provia 100 transparency film at the time. I was able to remove the slight bluish cast once the slide was scanned and digitized. My light reading was made by a hand held Sekonic L-358 light meter on incident mode (this reads the light falling on the scene, not the light reflected from the scene). I captured this with a 350mm telephoto, I used a tripod, and the settings were unrecorded but they were probably 1/250, f/5.6, and the film speed was 100 ISO.
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