Color blindness and Photography
Aug 24, 2020 09:18:38 #
russelray wrote:
Is it possible to fake a color that a person who i... (show quote)
Bravo to you. I have slight/moderate red-green color blindness and I wish more people were cognizant of that issue.
Aug 24, 2020 09:40:40 #
This extended discourse does raise a question: who has the handicap, the color vision deficient or the night vision deficient?
Because it is genetic leads to the related question: who has the evolutionary disadvantage? It could be the night vision deficient who would be more vulnerable at night! At least before modern technology. With traffic lights it might be that the color vision deficient now have the evolutionary disadvantage.
Because it is genetic leads to the related question: who has the evolutionary disadvantage? It could be the night vision deficient who would be more vulnerable at night! At least before modern technology. With traffic lights it might be that the color vision deficient now have the evolutionary disadvantage.
Aug 24, 2020 14:48:53 #
I lived in Niles Ohio. One of the lights was backwards, green on top and red on the bottom. My uncle was ticketed for running a red light. The policeman was not moved by his color problem and my uncle went to court. The judge was and dismissed the ticket. The next day the city “workers” were reversing the lenses to their proper position. As an aside my uncle always slowed at intersections and watched for other drivers.
Aug 24, 2020 15:30:00 #
Stephan G wrote:
Sporadically I have seen mention by an UHH-er having color blindness. Since I do not have this myself, I cannot speak about it. However, I think that this is a serious situation that would benefit further discussion. I am sure that the topic may have been approached in the past. It would be good to help the many of us to be brought up to date.
Any and all commentary will be appreciated.
Any and all commentary will be appreciated.
My colorblind photography buddy solves his dilemma by taking only B/W photos.
Aug 24, 2020 21:16:05 #
Aug 24, 2020 22:08:50 #
Moderate Protan color blindness, a type of red-green color blindness. Thanks
Aug 24, 2020 23:55:57 #
I too have some color blindness and my family used to make fun of me because I saw colors differently than they did. Sometimes it can be challenging; when I was a carpenter the standard chalk box color was red. They'd snap out red lines on plywood and it would be really hard to see and/or sometimes I couldn't see the lines at all. Green lights look like white lights to me at night and I did not realize this until one night driving down a rural highway, I had no idea there was in intersection there until suddenly the light turned red and a motorcycle rider instantly darted out from the side street! Had I not been on my toes I might have killed him.
Does this color blindness play into my photography? Not really. Not nearly as bad as being 20/200 in my right eye. I just don't see colors like a person with full color recognition does...and to me it is color recognition. Editing colors is not something I even try to do very often.
My wife is an artists, she mixes and uses degrees of color I cannot not see the differences in. I considered her to be challenged by color, while I may be considered color challenged!
Does this color blindness play into my photography? Not really. Not nearly as bad as being 20/200 in my right eye. I just don't see colors like a person with full color recognition does...and to me it is color recognition. Editing colors is not something I even try to do very often.
My wife is an artists, she mixes and uses degrees of color I cannot not see the differences in. I considered her to be challenged by color, while I may be considered color challenged!
Aug 25, 2020 00:57:00 #
ecurb wrote:
Also Ansel Adams was color blind, he needed his wife or a friend to pick his clothing.
Well, his monochrome photography was amazing.
Aug 25, 2020 01:04:41 #
wthomson wrote:
Interesting history. When I was a kid, my home town traffic lights had red on the bottom, green on top (later changed). At first, after the change, I remember that my dad (a very careful driver) ran through a couple.
Maybe the city engineers just put them in upside down.
Aug 25, 2020 01:17:38 #
Edamerau wrote:
I have a similar disability - I am left handed and my left eye is dominant. There are many cameras I cannot use because when I put the viewfinder up to my left eye my nose is in the way. Menus and controls on cameras and most devices in the world favor the right hand. That's why lefties have a shorter life expectancy. Oh well...
Hmm . . . I'm right handed but my left eye is dominant. Life deals us each a hand. Oh, and I have a definite red/green color deficiency. Pretty exciting.
Aug 25, 2020 07:45:03 #
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