Thank you for your post. I’m going to save it and share it with friends and colleagues who do not understand my dilemma.

It does haunt me from time to time, especially when I’m feeling less driven or confident at the time. I think I use it as an excuse sometimes but have got better over the years. I know there will be times when I will get stuck but in general there’s always someone about to help.

I find myself constantly torn between going against the odds of already what is an incredibly tough industry or if I should be more realistic about it all and find something else.

But I just try to put it to one side and keep pushing on..

There are a lot of tricks you can adopt to help make your life easier. If at a sports arena you’re working with constant and uniform lighting, taking a white balance reference image and applying that to all the images should work well. Although from what I understand, if you work for a publication you’d probably just be shooting in auto white balance and the editors will work out the colors. I’m certainly not the best person to ask about that but I seem to recall reading about that being the process for a lot of organizations. If you’re freelancing then I suppose you’re out of luck there!

Learning to color correct by the numbers, using reference materials and taking a test shot in a location before shooting, and knowing what parts of an image to look at to correct colors (and what the correct colors are for that object) are things that you get better at with time. Since we certainly can’t rely on our vision to tell us what’s right like others do, we have to learn the RGB values we should expect things to have.

Modern applications really aren’t made to help us in our plight, so we just have to learn to work with the tools it gives us. Sometimes I still have to run something by someone else if I just can’t figure it out myself, but that’s certainly become less frequent over the years.

The biggest problem I have, is when I cover concerts. There’s often some different colored lights that change. Changing the temperatur and tint here is really tricky for me, where non-colorblind people could easily run through the series of photos. I think I have to use a lot more time on just trying out random settings, untill it looks right to me. And still I’m really insecure about the result.

I had to say goodbye to several education plans, because I’m colorblind, including graphic designer/layout artist and commercial photography. Now I’m doing photojournalism and really love it. It’s pretty much self-taught and fear that they might reject me, if I try to seek into a journalism school (as a photojournalist).

But reading this article really put my mind a bit more to rest, as I thought there was something wrong with me, because the modern applications should be able to do everything for me.