Colour blind

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Hi peeps, well i have been photographing for quite some time now and peeps tend to look at me funny when i say im colour blind (can see colours but cannot tell the difference between certain ones).

Is it that abnormal, am i being stupid or what??? I love my photography, yes i admit i struggle sometimes but i thought photography was about being different, what do you think, cheers, Jamie
 
You're certainly not being stupid.

Quite a large number (nearly five percent) of people are colour blind to a greater or lesser extent. Most find it difficult to distinguish between colours in the red/green range. It means that they may see leaves or pink skin as very washed out and greyish for instance, or not be able to distinguish between subtle differences in that part of the colour spectrum.

You are no more abnormal than the rest of us ;), we all struggle at times with different things. I'm sure there are other people posting pictures here who suffer colour blindness, whether they know about it or not. My wife only realised that she had a little difficulty with creamy/pinkish hues about five or six years ago.

At least you know that you have the problem and can try to take it into account when editing photographs.

Anybody else here who can give d.d. some tips on how to cope?
 
Colour blindness is very common, there's lots of different degrees of it.
 
I'm colour blind here and only have problems on the post processing side. I never know if I've blown out the colours too much so usually ask an opinion if I think I've overdone things. e.g. I've made a picture of a robin obscenely red!!!!

As regards image composition, I never really think about it as the way I see it is the way I shoot it. It's just one of those things you learn to live with I guess.
 
Yep its very common.

My Dad has some blue / green colour blindness (I'm fine tho)

A friend in the family came home from a business trip to find his wife had spent the week redecorating the living room a lovely shade of battleship grey (it was light pink).

Finally, the one I need to take responsability for, we had a kid in school who had no ability to distinguish between red/green. We had him painting some very nice purple trees in art class :coat: :D
 
oldgit said:
A friend in the family came home from a business trip to find his wife had spent the week redecorating the living room a lovely shade of battleship grey (it was light pink).
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I know you shouldn't laugh, but I can't help imagining the schene when he walked into the room :lol:
 
Yes I'm colour blind and do struggle when editing sometimes.......it won't stop me doing what I love so keep clicking mate and enjoy :thumbs:
 
I'm partially red-green colour blind. Those cards with coloured dots where you see one number if you have normal colour vision and another if you are colour blind - I could see both numbers.

As far as editing goes I leave the white balance alone unless it is really obviously wrong as I might not see some subtle hue that shouldn't be there.
 
I personally am not in any way colourblind. However to say that it is abnormal to A) be colourblind, and B) be colourblind and a photographer, is utter rubbish. people looking at you funny is their lack of understanding for both colourblindness (if that is a word! Sorry it's early :D) and photography.

diesel_dog said:
I love my photography
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That's all that matters chief :)
 
I'm red/green colour blind but only in terms of contrast - somone who has "normal" vision would see red and green with as much contrast as black and white but I don't, it's more like comparing shades of grey but I still see red as red and green as green.
 
I'm grey/green colourblind (go figure!) so can't tell the difference between them, so I should be okay unless that herd of elephants up at Longleat want some home portraiture done...
Does cause the odd PP issue when I have to rely on the better half and her Mac though.
 
Better to be a colourblind photographer than a colourblind electrician :D
 
I'm not colour blind but know plenty of people that are. I remember years ago, my friend at school coloured a picture or a dog in green!
 
Lol thanks for all your replies, your extremely kind and friendly!!!

It wont stop me doing what i love and its nice to know im not alone, thanks :)
 
I'm red green too and I feel I must point out that being colour blind is incredibly rare ;). Most people who think they're colour blind actually have Colour Perception problems. This is graded in to different levels from 1-5 with 3 being the border line for people being able to differentiate between different colours. I'm CP4 and am no where near close to the border with 3 so that has a huge impact on things I can do career wise in the forces. I always explained to people that I was taught colours in the same way as them so I can say when things are red, green, blue etc, however what I see is probably completely different to what they see. My main problem with it is when red and green are together the red disappears (I would have to get very close to a holly bush to see the berries) and with identifying pastel colours. I always have to ask shop assistants about colours of clothes as there have been many instances where I've bought purple things thinking they're blue!
As far as PP is concerned, I alter things so they look right to me and then get someone to check it for me! If there's nobody to check then I leave it alone! I think it explains why I always loved doing self processed B&W stuff when I was younger as I knew I couldn't make a mess of the colours!
I did get the slipper once at school as I coloured in a map in geography with yellow land and purple around the coast line. the teacher thought I was being deliberately insolent when I insisted I'd done it green and blue as directed... :shake:
 
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