Jolly Roger Loc: Dorset. UK

Metamerism ?

foathog Loc: Greensboro, NC

I couldn't agree more with you. That blue dress shot was ridiculous. Someone takes a bad shot and everyone goes bonkers over it.

boberic Loc: Quiet Corner, Connecticut. Ex long Islander

Assuming thay are the same bag, and according to the store, the same color,then we can perhaps make an evaluation. Only 2 possibilities Either a lighting Flash or ambient problem. Or a camera setting problem. Or a combination of the 2. So my official answer to the question is---- Beats the hell out of me!!

JCam Loc: MD Eastern Shore

Frequently incorrect colors are a result of what color the processor thinks the color(s) should be. Years ago when color TV was just starting, a friend of my father who was working in the Color Production department of CBS (I think) was telling us a story of trying to prove this was a problem.

He was having the problem of the film processors changing the colors to what they thought was correct, and wouldn't admit that they were biasing the pictures. Since the directors were located in a room away from the production stage, he took a banana and painted it RED, put it on a stand for a practice shoot, and told them to get the truest color they could. Two different crews worked on it and in about mid afternoon came to him and said words to the effect that 'something must be wrong with the camera equipment, we just can't get that banana to show as yellow' . He then showed them what they were shooting at, and made his point.

Pilots sometimes have a similar problem in bad weather; their solution is "Trust your instruments".

I suspect we all sometimes may suffer from this same situation in PP trying to get a photo to look like what we think it should, especially if we didn't take the shot. Now of course we have better equipment than those TV producers had; this story goes back 60+ years when I was a young teenager!

CatMarley Loc: North Carolina

That is just flash washing out the color.

EdR Loc: Gig Harbor, WA

Look at the hardware attaching the straps. It is different on the 2 purses. They are not the same so I don't see that can prove anything about the color.

rook2c4 Loc: Philadelphia, PA USA

Auto-white balance and the hue of ambient lighting can do strange things. I think this is less an issue of what we see, but more about how the camera has interpreted the scene.

David in Dallas Loc: Dallas, Texas, USA

The bags are not the same. They may be the same model from the same dealer (I don't know), but they are definitely different bags.

Architect1776 Loc: In my mind

2 completely different bags and two completely different colors.

stillducky

They are different styled bags or from different batches. This is like comparing apples to oranges. I worked for a GM auto dealer in the 70's and cars with the same paint code would many times vary in hue due to the particular paint batch or manufacturing plant.

rbfanman

A flash puts out the same color light as sunlight, so it won't alter a subject's color. The things which alter such color are usually: lighting (fluorescent, incandescent, etc), and / or camera white balance settings, and / or lens filters, and / or editing program settings.

There are also products whose color is caused by agents which react differently to different lighting situations. I once had a 'Champagne' colored car... It was basically a thin coat of gold paint over a thin coat of silver paint. In bright sun, the car looked gold. In slightly shady light it seemed silver. On dark, overcast, days it looked grey.

John_F Loc: Minneapolis, MN

I tend to agree, there seem to be differences between the two.

whitewolfowner

Most people are beyond ignorant with color. When in the film days, labs were clueless when I complained about the photos they returned to me were 30-40 units off in color. I went through hell trying to get them to print them properly. I thenmanaged a color lab for awhile and enjoyed shooting color film for the first time. When the lab went under, I finally gave up, set up my own darkroom and did mostly black and white because color was a pain and took forever; nothing to talk about the cost. Most color work I did in slides; kodachrome was better but had to be sent out; ektachrome I could process myself, so I shot both depending on the situation at the time.

David in Dallas Loc: Dallas, Texas, USA

I actually preferred Ektachrome® over Kodachrome®--the latter was "zippier" but I liked the colors better in the former--the blues and purples were truer.

Lundberg02

For *&(U^&%^& sake the bags are NOT the same bag