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Although it has been a while since the last post like this I am always interested to find more tools meant to help the colorblind with using their computers or photography in general. I had heard of this program before but didn’t have the time to try it out and post about it until now. WhatColor is a shareware program, the program you download is a fully functional evaluation copy and an $8 registration is requested if you like and intend to continue using the software. [...]
Continue reading Software for the colorblind: WhatColor
X-rite has a really neat online Farnsworth-Munsell 100 hue test that you can use to test your color vision. I want to be completely clear that I make no guarantees about the accuracy of this test though. I performed it on a new LED backlit LCD which has particularly vivid colors and scored a 107 on it which is considerably better than my performance using the real thing in a proper viewing booth with a calibrated light source (I got an average of 163 under those conditions). [...]
Continue reading Test your color vision with X-rite’s online 100 hue test
Yesterday Joe and I decided to wander downtown Rochester some. Our starting point was the soon to be demolished Midtown Plaza. This fabulously retro and dilapidated place was the first downtown mall in the country, and we both felt we had to take a visit there to see what it was all about. I have to admit while it was interesting to see, for the most part the overall space did nothing for me, photographically speaking. I focused on some details though and got a few shots. [...]
Continue reading Walking downtown (photo gallery)
If you’ve stumbled across this site by accident or because you are curious about how being color blind affects people, you might appreciate getting a sense of how the world appears to a color blind person. There are a number of sites out there that provide demonstrations of color blindness. [...]
Continue reading What does color blindness look like?
Pretend you’re at a busy subway or train station in a city you don’t know your way around. You’re supposed to pick out the trains you need and the stations to switch at to get somewhere. The lines are all color coded: red, blue, green, yellow, orange, etc. What do you do if the colors are muted or not particularly clear and you’re color blind? If you guessed stand there frustrated and confused, you guessed right! [...]
Continue reading Software for the colorblind: Tenebraex eyePilot
Often, when it’s late in the day and I’m tired or haven’t had the opportunity to think of anything good before-hand, I wind up wandering around with my camera trying to find something for the photo-a-day project. I often carry a flash and an off camera cord for it just in case it might be useful (and it often is). Several days ago I was doing just this, and found that with some bounce flash I could get some really interesting shapes and colors out of some glass mixing bowls. [...]
Continue reading More light & color
Somehow I convinced my friends to join me down to Mendon Ponds yesterday to go for a hike and take some photos. We parked and hiked in a little bit and found some interesting things to shoot, mostly just taking advantage of the nice light from the setting sun. Eventually we decided that it was getting too dark and too chilly to stay there much longer, but I think we were also just running dry creatively for whatever reason. [...]
Continue reading Back to Mendon Ponds
Sometimes I take an image and have a heck of a time getting it to come out right. Yesterday I went to Letchworth State Park with a couple friends to take some photos and I got a handful of shots that I’ll put up here over the next day or so. One of the first images I edited was the one below and the first one I produced was too green. Usually I can rely on digital counts to figure out the color of whats in the scene but with a shot like this it’s harder. [...]
Continue reading Lost in the dark
Irondequiot Bay I’ve been messing around with color on recent photographs more than usual. Generally I take a pretty tame approach since when I do anything the results can be unpredictable, but it’s been fun to crank things up in varying ways. This weekend Joe and I went shooting on Saturday and Sunday night up near Lake Ontario at two different places. [...]
Continue reading Playing with color
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