Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/02/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Bravo, Tina! You really stirred the pot with those two mosque shots. Kodachrome? Seriously. . . which one is "correct?" I have no idea. The first looks like it's lit only with blue sky behind the camera; the second looks like early morning or late afternoon light. I'll guess that the second is closer to what we would see in normal daylight, but warmer. I'm basing this on the color of the bricks, which is the only frame of reference I have in the shot. Then again, there is a mosque in Samerkand, Uzbekistan that looks like the bluer picture (it was shown in a Leica Photographie International in the last few years). The problem with color is that our brain has this white-balance program running inside it that would put any DSLR to shame. So we quickly find what ought to be "white," baseline it, and presto--the world looks as we'd expect. A good thing, too--if we ever saw how things really look under florescent light, I'd think we'd be sick to our stomachs half the time. We seem to make an exception for warm light. Sunsets, the golden hour, and all that. That's why some of us like the warmer picture of the young (German?) couple at the table. When I see the two pictures one above the other, I recognize that the top one is "truer." But I kind of like the bottom one better if I see it by itself. More romantic. Some of us tolerate/like wider swings from reality than others. And reality is for people who can't handle Velvia. :-) --Peter At 07:48 PM 2/2/05 -0800, Tina Manley <images@InfoAve.Net> wrote: >Color is very subjective. Here are two photos of the same scene made on >different days. Which one is "correct"? > >http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/image/39336098 >http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/image/39336122