Are you or do you know of any Colour Blind Pro Togs?

I am not Pro but i do earn from photography and i am colour blind....

I have had issues with my printer before and i had done a whole batch and the magenta had a blockage so everyone was green.

I did not realise until my wife came in and noticed.......

Gutted.

Had to do the lot again, when i looked at them side by side i could not believe how obvious it was but at the time i could not tell....
 
A mate of mine who dabbles in photography is colour blind, and he produces some of the most bold and bright coloured images I've ever seen!

Really quite strange... :)
 
norvic-boy said:
A mate of mine who dabbles in photography is colour blind, and he produces some of the most bold and bright coloured images I've ever seen!

Really quite strange... :)
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Indeed is does seem odd - Simon obviously copes as does my colour blind pal

I didn't realise how colour blind he was until one day he asked about a light on his printer, when it's good to go its green and if there's a problem its red, but he couldn't tell which was which, yet his prints are FAB :)

DD
 
I read a while back in Photography Monthly that Joel Grimes is colour blind:thumbs:
 
Yep ... I'm colourblind ..... but I still see colours so it makes no odds - you learn what is correct and have rules in place to follow when processing
 
I'm not a pro, but I am colour blind (can be any colour depending on shade, ie. lime green/yellow or blue/light purple or dark brown/dark green etc). I think I manage ok, although correcting the white balance on some images can be quite tricky and usually ask someone else in the house to check (apart from my brother who is also colour blind).

Sometimes it's just easier to convert images to B&W if I think it would suit it. Check out my website in my signature and see if you can spot any you think the colours are way off, I'd like to know what others think too.

Craig. :)
 
CraigyBoy86 said:
I'm not a pro, but I am colour blind (can be any colour depending on shade, ie. lime green/yellow or blue/light purple or dark brown/dark green etc). I think I manage ok, although correcting the white balance on some images can be quite tricky and usually ask someone else in the house to check (apart from my brother who is also colour blind).

Sometimes it's just easier to convert images to B&W if I think it would suit it. Check out my website in my signature and see if you can spot any you think the colours are way off, I'd like to know what others think too.

Craig. :)
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Nice website there... Some superb black and white images too. A real nice array of tones, the black and whites are definitly stronger images than your colour ones, but saying that your colour images are good too! :)
 
I'm colourblind, and I is well pro innit.

OK, I'm not pro, but I *am* colourblind (with the most common red-green deficiency, 6-7/10 correct replies in teh City University test).
 
I'm no pro either (just approaching amateur) and I'm incredibly colour blind. Red/green/brown - Yellow/light green - Pink/grey - Purple/blue. I recently had an eye test which included a coloured lens test to help with dyslexia. The yellow tinted lenses that arrived today have the added effect of making colours a more distinguishable from each other, but I'm still not able to tell what they are.
On another note, after wearing them for about 10 mins, if I take them off everything has a blue tint. Must be my eye's auto WB :D

My solution to PP is my colour "seeing-eye" wife :D
 
i've just gotten into photography properly in the last month or so, and being colourblind i wondered how other people get by. it's good to see that a few others on here have the same problem :)

my problem colours are red/brown/green/yellow blue/purple/pink and depending upon the light i can even get pink and grey confused. i tried a couple of online tests and got spectacularly bad results lol.

a lot of my pics were shot in black and white at the start but now i'm trying to shoot in colour but i find it difficult sometimes, usually with getting the white balance correct. at least shooting in colour i can convert to mono if it all goes tits up.
 
I too am colour blind (red/blue I think from memory). I don't give it a second thought usually and most of the time it is not an issue. I am not a pro by the way. The camera and camera raw do a pretty good job of helping me, so I don't think it is night and day.

If you are a pro, just hope you don't have to work for a client with better eyesight than you!

Graham
 
i have only one good eye 90% blind in the right eye,
and it shows the photos i take, lol
 
Am also coloured blind (all varients of colours blend into each other, pain in the arse lol)

againe feel free to check out my site/flickr, i have some off WBs but I try to ask people before i post stuff up just to check tones etc...

Madpup said:
i have only one good eye 90% blind in the right eye,
and it shows the photos i take, lol
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I have 40% vision in both eyes, we should meet up :).
 
kiteninja said:
Am also coloured blind (all varients of colours blend into each other, pain in the arse lol)

againe feel free to check out my site/flickr, i have some off WBs but I try to ask people before i post stuff up just to check tones etc...



I have 40% vision in both eyes, we should meet up :).
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together we might get a good shot,lol
 
As a child I knew a house painter who was colour blind - you had to stand over him while he mixed his paints. We found this out the hard way after what should have been a pink bedroom turned out a yucky olive green :lol:.
 
I believe that statistically men are more likely to be colour blind than women. I've read that it is posited that women within a hunter/gatherer community need to be good at identifying colour in the gathering of food whereas the male hunter has no particular need for that skill. No matter what colour the meat is good ;)
 
I too am colour blind, mainly struggle with seeing most of the colours of the rainbow. I earn money from photography and don't find it a real issue and my clients don't seem to have an issue with my work. Having said that I do love working in black and white, I am old school and used to develop my own prints, years back.
 
I work as a tog full-time and im colourblind, I am Deuteranopic which is very common (Affects 1% of all males) I have a deficiency to Red and Green. I struggle to notice Greens, in low light they may appear black! Red's can be a bit...Nuclear, shall i say, but not all the time? And if i see Red and Green together they flash and give me a headache. I am another one that uses the clean eyes of collegues and the wife to help out!

Ive never told my bosses and nothing has ever been said? I take pride in my 20:20 vision though when my whole family on both sides wear glasses!! I guess it had to balance somewhere!

There is a theory that Deuteranopic people are an evolutionary step forward because we can see more colours where our eyes compensate. The US army did tests with Deuteranopic soldiers and they spotted camoflage at a rate of 90% more than Non-Deuteranopic soldiers, this is the evolutionary theory that our eyes are picking out more and disregarding the colours we don't see much of? It's a very controversial subject!
 
Nickibee said:
if i see Red and Green together they flash and give me a headache.
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When I was being tested for my coloured lenses, I was messing about with the coloured filters and tried a blue on one eye and a yellow on the other (I think!). When I looked at the clouds outside the window I could see swirling patterns of colour like oil on water.

The Optician/specialist said something about feedback on the back of my eyeball (or something, a bit technical!) and that it isn't normally seen, even with colour blind people. (I don't pretend to understand what he was going on about and have probably mis-quoted him enormously)

Was very odd though, and happened every time with the filters. Tried it at home with sweet wrappers and it didn't work :(

On another note, Although I now have light yellow to help with my Dyslexia/co-ordination/many more benefits, when I tried the dark yellow everything went flat. By that I mean I lost all 3D and depth perception. Was scary to walk across the room! Red filters made things disappear. By that I mean things turned black and merged into each other.

The eyes are a strange instrument. (Well, I'm yet to get a tune out of them anyway)
 
I was going to do a new post about this. Good job i done a search first.
I am just going into wedding photography and I am also colour blind. i wonder how that will affect things. Good job my wife , and daughter have near perfect vision (score of 4 and 0 in the xrite colour test compared to my score of 89).
also my partner who i will be working has good vision.
Just wondered if there are any wedding photographers on here who have colour deficiency?
 
Can you be color blind to one color?
As the army told me I was color blind few years back but only have a rare issue with a odd shade of Brown :s
 
wildsam90 said:
Can you be color blind to one color?
As the army told me I was color blind few years back but only have a rare issue with a odd shade of Brown :s
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If I am correct there is different degrees of colour blindness most commonly red-green and blue-yellow so your brown is probably more to do with red-green distinguishing deficiency.
 
I also have a Deutan color vision deficiency. Very common in the male population. I do get a problem with a whole range of colours some (red, green ) much worse than others. Not only is it all i know ( i am pretty sure its everyone else's eyes that are wrong not mine) but i have learnt to adapt. By wife does help me out with WB and such when needed but its not often i need assistance. I have never had a single client comment on or notice a problem.
 
Joel Grimes is colour blind. If you are not aware of his work then here....

http://joelgrimes.com/3/artist.asp?ArtistID=12191&Akey=P7FJP8B4

I'm also a bit red-green colour blind but so far (fingers crossed) it hasn't affected my work, as I take extra care regarding colour balance, white balance etc. Maybe I should just do black and whites? :thinking: :D
 
im also colour blind and a full time photographer. Im pretty badly effected, but i have work arounds. i dont tend to play with colours to much, and when i do i ask my wifes opinion. I have produced a lovely seascape of tenby with a pink sky....its an extra challange but im so used to it that it doesnt bother me.
 
Not totally relevant, but reminds me of a funny story! Two of our three boys have some form of colour blindness (thanks to the father in law :P), and we were attending a parent's evening at primary school some years back.

I don't recall how the subject came up, but we mentioned that the kid in question was red/green colour blind, the teacher looked horror struck and could not stop apologising! She explained in horror that she wrote mainly in a green marker pen on the whiteboard - now she understood why our youngest had not been pulling his weight in class - he could not see any of it!

I toyed with the idea of letting her believe this, but decided to put her straight in the end.
 
ianbarber said:
The reason why I ask is that I am Red Green Brown colour blind and do sometimes find it difficult to disitguish certain colours. Purple is a difficult one to me as it looks dark blue. Would be interesting to see some of these colour blind guys images.
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Sounds like you have the same colour blindness as me. It only really comes into a effect when you jumble up tonnes of different colours together, that is when I cannot tell them apart (maybe I have learnt what my eyes see a colour as when they are isolated...?)

I am not pro, but I do not find it a problem until I use a filter that adds a colour cast to the image. For the life of me, I cannot tell that a cast is there and I have to check with someone first (this is the main reason why I have stopped using my 10 stopper).
 
A very good friend of mine is Pro and is colour blind. He produced awesome shots (I have no idea how!)
 
After a motorbike accident when I was 21 I was unable to see red as red, I saw it in shades of grey. Which made things difficult when looking at anything B&W, or if there was anything red and grey in the same scene. However, after a fall about 5 years ago with another bang on the head I can now see red as red again. It's not perfect but I know something like a coke can is definitely red and looks like the colour I remember as red. It's definitely made things easier for photos now I can see the colour again, but I took thousands of digital photos when I couldn't and they prove that colour perception is made in the brain and not the eye.
 
Don't know any pros but one of our repro technicians was colour blind - any deficiencies in his PP skills were covered by the godawful print company we used :lol:
 
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