[Leica] My attitude about Colo(u)r

[henningw at archiphoto.com (Henning Wulff)]

At 10:28 PM -0500 2/2/05, Tina Manley wrote:
>At 09:40 PM 2/2/2005, you wrote:
>>I was raised in the Great Dismal Swamp in NE North Carolina.
>
>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
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>Tina
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>Tina Manley, ASMP
>www.tinamanley.com
>

A very good example. Light can and does change colours dramatically. 
Our eyes (brains) make the accommodations and we think things look 
about the same, but a consistent sensor, film or digital, proves 
otherwise.

It's easy to say that one or the other, most likely the latter, is 
more accurate, but that presents only part of the matter. That's why 
we fiddle with colour balance and saturation, to present our pictures 
with the colours that our memories say they were.

Between our memories and individual perceptions a whole range of 
colour representations are possible.

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