Agreed, Paul. My first reaction on seeing the photo was that it was a lousy
exposure, so it was no wonder that people saw it differently. That said, I
also find it interesting, as C.H. mentioned, the variation that's evident
in our color interpretation and what it says about how our brains function.
On Feb 27, 2015 9:24 AM, "Paul Braun" <pbraun42@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> People are getting all bent out of shape over nothing. I've seen 4
> different copies of that photo now, all four looked different.
>
> Nobody is taking into account the poor lighting of the original subject,
> the obviously crappy camera, poor WB, whatever gymnastics the jpeg
> converter in the camera did, whatever data manipulation/"optimization" was
> done by the Instagram or whatever the original upload site's mechanisms
> did, the color balance of your monitor, the resolution of your monitor, how
> many iterations of that image have been copied through how many different
> services, all of which modify the image data....
>
> We all know how different a given image can appear through different
> viewing media. The only way to truly determine what your eyes see is to see
> the damn thing in person, in the original light.
>
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 10:29 AM, C.H.Ling <ch_photo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > I have read that explanation too, just hard to believe the big
> differences
> > in our brain's color interpretation.
> >
> > C.H.Ling
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Charles Geilfuss" <
> > charles.geilfuss@xxxxxxxxx>
> >
> >
> >
> > The people in the lab were talking about this when I came in to work.
> Good
> >> explanation here:
> >>
> >>
> http://www.wired.com/2015/02/science-one-agrees-color-dress/
> >>
> >> Charlie
> >>
> >> On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 11:09 AM, C.H.Ling <ch_photo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >> There is an interesting discussion going on the Internet.
> >>>
> >>> http://www.businessinsider.com/white-and-gold-black-and-
> >>> blue-dress-2015-2
> >>>
> >>> Here is the votes in our house -
> >>>
> >>> Blue and Black - me, my wife and our young son.
> >>>
> >>> White and gold - our elder son.
> >>>
> >>> One survey says 75% see white/gold and 25% see blue/black, I never
> >>> thought
> >>> this would happen.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> C.H.Ling
> >>>
> >>>
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