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Gemstones, Minerals & Fossils
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Can the design of a stone affect the colour as a camera sees it?
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<blockquote data-quote="Lefty" data-source="post: 428545" data-attributes="member: 2976"><p>Absolutely Wally!!</p><p></p><p>And I think that is where the statement that our eyes are deceiving us while the camera shows the "true" colour may be factual from a scientific point of view but a bit meaningless when applied to real life.</p><p></p><p>For example, if I show you and 10 other people a stone that everyone agrees looks red, and then I say "no, no - you and I and everyone else are being fooled by our brains, in light of this wavelength the real colour is green"...........well, good luck convincing everyone that a stone that they can see is red is actually green!!</p><p></p><p>All that matters is that the stone in the photograph is as consistent as possible with what the eye sees first hand. Only issue I see is that in order to achieve the "eye-true" colour, the camera had to perceive the background as being yellowish - which gives the impression that the colour of the photo has been altered to enhance the colour of the stone when this is not the case. Everyone who has seen either or both stones with their own eyes agrees that they are bright yellow.</p><p></p><p>When the day comes that human beings are all Borg with cameras attached to their eyes and wired to their brains, then the issue will be solved. Until then, the "true" colour of a stone will be what most people perceive it as with their own eyes - not whatever a camera might want to see until adjustments are made.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lefty, post: 428545, member: 2976"] Absolutely Wally!! And I think that is where the statement that our eyes are deceiving us while the camera shows the "true" colour may be factual from a scientific point of view but a bit meaningless when applied to real life. For example, if I show you and 10 other people a stone that everyone agrees looks red, and then I say "no, no - you and I and everyone else are being fooled by our brains, in light of this wavelength the real colour is green"...........well, good luck convincing everyone that a stone that they can see is red is actually green!! All that matters is that the stone in the photograph is as consistent as possible with what the eye sees first hand. Only issue I see is that in order to achieve the "eye-true" colour, the camera had to perceive the background as being yellowish - which gives the impression that the colour of the photo has been altered to enhance the colour of the stone when this is not the case. Everyone who has seen either or both stones with their own eyes agrees that they are bright yellow. When the day comes that human beings are all Borg with cameras attached to their eyes and wired to their brains, then the issue will be solved. Until then, the "true" colour of a stone will be what most people perceive it as with their own eyes - not whatever a camera might want to see until adjustments are made. [/QUOTE]
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