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The Problematic of Color [eye and Camera]

By Bbenzon @bbenzon
This is how the image came out of the camera, more or less:

The problematic of color [eye and camera]

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:


The problematic of color [eye and camera]

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

This is what I settled on:


The problematic of color [eye and camera]

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

Here we see pink clouds:


The problematic of color [eye and camera]

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:


The problematic of color [eye and camera]
For a more detailed discussion of color and color photography, see Color the Subject.

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