Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Is color in the eye of the beholder?

Forgive my absence yesterday.  In addition to lots of good movies last week, I also picked up another really nasty chest cold.  This is the second time since October that I've been flat out sick.  I need to be boosting my immune system!

Your comments on Friday got me really curious about how we see color, so I want to run a little test today.

Rowan's Poncho
What color is this?


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What color is this?


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Now what color is this?

This isn't a controlled test, I know, because the lighting today is different from Friday.  The top and bottom pictures are the same that I posted Friday.  The middle photo, I took today, and tried to get the white balance and everything else as close to the others as possible.

The poncho is a royal blue and lavender.  In the comments on Friday everyone kept remarking on the blue and white.  So I had my daughter look at the photos and tell me what color they were; she answered correctly.  Now, a couple weeks ago, I did tell her that Rowan needed a purple poncho.  I had DH look at the photos.  He has been within a few feet of me crochet this thing; he said, "blue and white." 

I see blue and lavender.  Is that just because I know that is what color it is?  Did my daughter say lavender because I planted a clue in her a couple weeks ago?  Did DH say blue and white because he doesn't pay attention?

Now what color do you see?


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4 comments:

  1. Karen L RJanuary 31, 2012 at 5:50 PM

    Now that you mention it, lavender. But it is very, very pale.

    :-)

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  2. RodJanuary 31, 2012 at 8:11 PM

    Check this: http://chir.ag/projects/name-that-color/#3127B9 Governor Bay looks closest on my monitor.

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  3. pamqFebruary 1, 2012 at 2:18 PM

    Well.....

    I see blue and white.

    But I always wonder about colors on this laptop monitor---somehow they always seem a little off or something.........

    Lovely crocheting no matter what color though!

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  4. MyrnieFebruary 2, 2012 at 12:15 PM

    Wow...I totally thought it was white, on an overcast day! Pretty :)

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