On Jul 6, 2006, at 3:23 PM, Bob W wrote: > ... The problem for colourblind people, > though, is that something that looks ok to us can look absurd to other > people. "Why is the sky yellow, Bob?". When the intention is to show > something as realistically as possible then colourblind people have > few options.
Not to disparage colorblind folks, but they should always have a person with full color vision proof their color photos. Taking the path to accuracy in rendering will at least ensure a good baseline. Setting the color by the numbers will work well for that. > Incidentally, I don't necessarily agree that the goal is to obtain a > pleasing rendering, but then one can easily get into a long discussion > about realism versus aesthetics. That's for some other time and some > other thread. Yes, this is a long discussion akin to the "What Are You Trying To Say?" thread which I have as yet not appended my thoughts to. I've been too busy trying to say something in the past couple of weeks to write about it. ;-) Needless to say, photographs *can* encompass more than just realistic rendering. What they ought to present is up to the intent of the photographer... > The photographer Terence Donovan (or perhaps it was David Bailey) has > been quoted as justifying their overuse of warm filters by saying > "whoever heard of a f-cking client complaining because their picture > was too warm?", so clearly you have something there. But the technique > Margulis describes appears to work for all kinds of skin tones too. :-) Godfrey -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
