#fvd-color

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Experimenting with rare light sources, these scenarios can be rare in everyday life.

When the maroon towel is photographed under the white LED light source, it appears almost similar color to what it looks in day light. The following photograph is under same settings, but the LED light source is green, as a result the towel appears as brown or closer to black.

A white medical tape is placed closer to a LED screen emitting white, yellow, red and blue respectively. The white part of the tape appears similar color to the light source where the blue branding on the tape is observed appearing in almost black color under the red light and to green under the yellow light in the photographs.

A very similar set up is repeated under the same LED screen, this time with the addition of a yellow ball. The ball appears in pure green under yellow light and a very darker shade of yellow under blue light.  

The drawing board clip is placed under sunlight and photographed with two different backgrounds. On the brown-orange surface the clip is appearing to be of a combination of dark violet and black. When the surface is white, the clip is seen in blue color.

Even though there are different shades in nature, most prominently observed are of brown and green. Here is an attempt to observe the shades of two different type of leaves as they age, they are displaying gradual shades of their respective natural colors.

Fallen leaves from jackfruit tree of different days probably, observed are undergone natural aging which turns its color towards darker brown and gradually to black before it decompose.

Exploration

Color of object or scene, may it be the background, foreground or the object’s color itself, it produces some meaning together which are perceived differently when one of the components varies. The following is an attempt to vary colors from existing images and study what difference it introduces to the emotion or perception.

It is widely known that warmer colors are often appetizing than cooler colors, especially red. The image of delicious paneer being cooked is altered to blue to understand the change in the same appetizing appeal of the image. It is commonly observed that blue is the least appetizing color of its category. Taking very open stand to the blue colored food, the chances are that it will be associated to experimental food items hence may be evoking slight curiosity.

Nature in its own way is familiar to human, so is the colors from nature. Even the light change of colors in nature can potentially represent weather change or tropical regions like how generally summer is warmer and winter is cooler in ambient color of nature. The image of cow here is modified adding elements of red, which if compared evoking different emotions. If normally it is just a cow with a curious look the addition of red introduces a layer of vengeance or furiousness.

Same goes for the photograph here, the natural light gives emotions like hope, positivity and the green addition modifies these emotions to mystery where the absence of colors brings silence.  

Some metals are personal statements. Gold, silver etc. are hence not just colors but closely associated with the value of the metal itself. Here is a photograph of a metal watch, which is of course not gold but being golden in color it sends out emotions like wisdom and courage and acts as a personal statement. When recolored it to blue shade, it completely stands opposite to what a golden-watch is commonly symbolized for. It is now a low-key, function-oriented funky gadget yet the metal evokes some vintage feel.  

Color perceptions on the man-made conventions are plenty around the world. Like ‘Taxis are yellow’ to’ tyres are black’ got its own reasons to have the respective colors assigned. Here is some warning lights from my car, which are designed in red, to give the sense of importance. As we hold the collective knowledge of red symbols as something to pay attention these warning lights are very difficult to be neglected. The same lights are tweaked to display same information in green in the following image, which takes away the ‘important warning’ context and is emoting ‘everything is good to go’ to eyes.  

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It is proven that color we see can be perceived differently depending on many factors. The background and the source of light being the easiest among them to modify and experiment the changes in the color to study the visible differences in the color of object/skin/surface in different light sources and backgrounds.  

The photographs below include those taken under day light during afternoon, in white, greenery and textured backgrounds and some photographs are during night with florescent tube light, LED bulb and incandescent light sources with varying backgrounds like white wall and textured curtains.

All the photographs are taken in the same white balance settings of camera, and the visible difference is majorly on the cloth color. However, if examined closely there is visible difference in the skin tone depending on the light source.

For the photos under day light, the skin tone was similar, but the cloth’s color was observed being influenced by the background. The LED and florescent sources did create similar images, still the LED source is cooler when compared closely.  

The incandescent bulb, the warmest source of light I could find, completely disturbed the perception of the colors of white wall, cloths and skin tone.