Night Shots - Orange Glow

[brightyellowtvr]

I had a 50mm canon F1.8 lense for xmas, whilst on the ferry back from the Isle of Wight I took a couple of rushed (from the car deck) pics of the Spinnaker tower and the 50mm was on my 300D.

Anyway when I looked at them later the sky has an orange glow, but the picture was taken at night just before a massive snowstorm!
So I just wondered how/why this happend, as I have never had this happen on any other night shots.. was it the lens or just the light pollution/snow....?

Anyone got any other examples of this scenario?

[imperialism2024]

My guess is light pollution/snow.

Around here whenever it snows or is about to snow the sky looks dark orange like in that picture.

[GetCarter]

If it's cloudy the street lamps reflect more than your eye can see... but the camera never lies!

[_dobbo_]

If you shot it in RAW, try tweaking the white balance, that should get rid of the orange cast.

[te51cle]

Looks like light pollution from orange street (and the bright port marshalling area) lights reflecting off cloud to me. Did you take it with the aperture wide open ? Much more likely to have caught the dim background glow if you did.