William Robb wrote:
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jens Bladt"
Subject: RE: color profiles ICC for *ist DS/L
That's true, Godfrey.
Very few people actually realizes, that all the things we photograph
(with a
few exceptions) are in fact black/don't have a colour at all.
All they do is REFLECT SOME of the light that hits them ;-)
Well, no. If everything was, in fact, black, then they wouldn't reflect
any light at all.
If they had no colour, they would not reflect colour.
Well, no.
Nothing has colour. Objects simply emit or reflect different bits
of the electromagnetic spectrum.
A "white" object will appear red under red light, blue under blue
light, and so on.
Colour is what we (and other enabled creatures) perceive after
stimuli received by the eye have been processed by the eye and brain.
Part of that processing "corrects" for the colour balance of the
ambient light. That's why cameras need white balance settings
(tungsten, daylight, etc.). The human eye/brain does "auto",
usually without us noticing.
Keith McG
