Hi All! After taking photos at a party, I discovered an interesting effect. It was indoors, with uneven and not very bright light, so, I used a flash bounced from the ceiling, which made the light rather uniform.
There were some party items in two colors: green and purple. In all shots, the purple came out as blue. All other colors are close to the original. I tried to play with the color temperature and tint in LR, but I cannot make it without skewing the rest of the colors. http://42graphy.org/snapshots/misc/_IR31001.jpg I suspect, that this particular color (dye) fluoresces from the flush, or something like that. This brought up an interesting discussion question: Imagine a well organized party with color matching of various elements (e.g. wedding, with bride's maids' dresses matching the plates, or whatever). In that case, the flash can change the way colors appear. By itself, it is nothing new - the same color on different surfices can appear differently in different light. But, - it would be a nightmare for the photographer (and the wedding organizer, if that person was in charge for the photographs). This opens up many interesting questions that I've never heard discussed. On one hand the event organizer should be aware of such potential problems, - but I am curious, - how many of them try to see how things look under the flash light? I know that, say, stage directors for theaters/ballet are aware of such issues, - I had a chance of talking with one from a famous Russian ballet troup touring the US some 12 years ago. They had to deal with the variation of the light temperature/color in different cities. Otherwise, slightly blueish tutus (Swan Lake) in a yellowish main stage "white" light look green. If you have worked with the wedding/event organizers who had dealt with such situations, - I'd be very curious to hear about it. And if you were the photographer, - how did you deal with it? Cheers, Igor -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
