[LRflex] Re: A conundrum...
- From: David Young <dsy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 20:17:39 -0800
Hi Bill!
Now that video should be required viewing for any and every photographer! VERY
interesting stuff ... most of which I'd never heard of, despite being shooting
for nearly 55 years!
Thanks, so much, for the link!
David.
>
>> On Jan 19, 2015, at 08:04, David Young <dsy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> But when Bill reported he saw the correct colours, in both shots, I was
>> beginning to question my sanity. Now, at least, I can question the sanity
>> of both of us! -)
>
> David,
>
> I represent that remark!
>
> But seriously, I don't believe that there are "correct" colors, only the
> representations created in each of our brains under varying conditions of
> lighting, sensors, computer programs, monitors, etc. The colors we see are
> not determined by the physics of light but by neurological processes in each
> of our individual brains.
>
> No color is "correct," but all colors are real to the beholder, one
> illustration being the differences between what color blind humans and we
> normally sighted persons see.
>
> Edwin Land (of Polaroid fame) tackled this paradox and showed that "color"
> that we "see" is not a function the wave lengths of light reflected from an
> object but is constructed in our brains. This effect is called color
> consistency, the way we consistently "see" the colors in a scene as the
> illumination changes in wave length.
>
> He showed this very clearly in a video titled "Colorful Notions" which was
> aired by BBC and also in the US on Public Broadcasting in the 1980s.
>
> You can see the video on Vimeo at
>
>> https://vimeo.com/11932120
>
> The video will add unexpected layer of mystery to your understanding of the
> way all of us "see" color.
>
> The fact that you and I and others "see" different colors of the
> (approximately) same image must take into account that each of us possesses a
> unique set of rods and cones in our eyes and different brains.
>
> I do not claim that it solves your red-orange-black problem but only that the
> neurological processes by which each of us individuals see color must play a
> part somehow. More than that I cannot say.
>
> I hope that you find the video interesting.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Bill
>
>
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