Tuesday, June 23, 2020

The problematic of color [eye and camera]

This is how the image came out of the camera, more or less:



That's not what I saw when I took the picture. Not those colors.

Now I've calibrated the image so that the face of the largest building is not pink:



Good enough. But where's that green come from? I'm certain I didn't see that.

This is what I settled on:



Still, where'd that pink come from? Was it really there?

Here we see pink clouds:



Is the pink on the face of that building a reflection from the clouds, something registered by my camera, but not my eye?

This, of course, solves the problem, but at a price:



For a more detailed discussion of color and color photography, see Color the Subject.

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