Photography: How well do you know Color?

Well, this pretty much confirms what I thought. I can't tell much difference between ANY of the colors on row 3....

* Your score: 272
* Gender: Male
* Age range: 20-29
* Best score for your gender and age range: 0
* Highest score for your gender and age range: 1520

Funny story - When I had braces they handed me a thing with all the colors they could put on my braces, and I chose purple thinking it was blue.... So I had purple on my teeth for a couple weeks. That was embarassing!
 
Interesting thing about the monitor issue. My husband took the color test on our laptop and got a 4, missing the row-3 blues also. I am going to take it on the laptop in a little while and see how I do on that. I'll do the monitor test on it too; our desktop monitor tests out quite well.

- LOL Ben! :D
 
That's pretty interesting. I got a perfect on my monitor which is calibrated, but had a much more difficult time on my wife's monitor which isn't calibrated.
 
* Your score: 0
* Gender: Male
* Age range: 16-19
* Best score for your gender and age range: 0
* Highest score for your gender and age range: 1520

I sure wasn't expecting to get perfect there! I see I'm not the only one either.
 
I hope that most everybody realized that this test was a test of the quality of their monitor as much as it was a test of their colorblindness.

I am wondering how many STORMTRACK photographers and storm chasers are using display calibration products. These products are able to correct color and grey scales better than you or I could do with the human eye. It is possible that those who scored poorly may not have a real problem with color as they first thought after taking the color test. There is a distinct possibillity that their monitors may be old, outdated units that are reaching their end - and no longer function as they should.

Consider this. CRT monitors throw off obscene amounts of UV light and can contribute greatly to vision problems - especially if you look at them for hours on end. I changed my Sony 22" flatscreen CRT for a ViewSonic 22" LCD and my eyes felt much better after using for only a few hours. Soon afterwards, I bought a flatscreen HDTV for the same reasons. My eyes felt better after a week of viewing on the LCD flatscreens. I used to dislike them, now I think they are fantastic. Also, laptop monitor screens are often the biggest offender when it comes to color inaccuracy - and stand to gain the most change when calibrated.

In addition, if you haven't checked out monitor calibration equipment, your picture taking and processing is not as consistent as you may think. Do your photos and your eyes a big favor - consider swapping out you CRT for a LCD monitor - and perhaps get the monitor calibration tool to have a monitor that works like a true photographic studio monitor.

http://www.xrite.com/product_overview.aspx?ID=788

The ColorVision 'Spyder' is another brand of monitor calibration:
http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/colorvisionmonitorspyder/
 
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If you aren't going to be spending a large sum of money, I don't think I'd want an LCD over a CRT for imaging.
 
Your score: 0
Gender: Male
Age range: 20-29
Best score for your gender and age range: 0
Highest score for your gender and age range: 1520

I guess I can hold off on the yearly eye doctor appointment for updating my glasses prescription lol j/k
 
Rob Wadsworth said:
In addition, if you haven't checked out monitor calibration equipment, your picture taking and processing is not as consistent as you may think. Do your photos and your eyes a big favor - consider swapping out you CRT for a LCD monitor - and perhaps get the monitor calibration tool to have a monitor that works like a true photographic studio monitor.
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I don't think anyone who is serious about editing pictures on their computer would do so without calibrating their monitors first, would they? (maybe that isn't as obvious of a question as I think)

As far as the CRT vs. LCD, only the latest generations of LCD's are getting as good as CRT's at color reproduction. I still do all my real photo work on a CRT for better color stability. I hope to go to LCD soon for many reasons, but I haven't been convinced yet that their colors are stable enough yet without spending a fortune.

-John
 
John Wetter said:
I don't think anyone who is serious about editing pictures on their computer would do so without calibrating their monitors first, would they? (maybe that isn't as obvious of a question as I think)

As far as the CRT vs. LCD, only the latest generations of LCD's are getting as good as CRT's at color reproduction. I still do all my real photo work on a CRT for better color stability. I hope to go to LCD soon for many reasons, but I haven't been convinced yet that their colors are stable enough yet without spending a fortune.

-John
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If one bought a Sony/Samsung (same thing) 22" LCD for $300-$350, isn't that enough monitor capabillity for serious photo work?
The X-Rite Eye-One Display LT for $140 does the job -without printer calibration- to put the LCD display on track.

That's $500 the way I see it - and without it - mastering photos are left to whatever settings someone may think are right. That's not exactly being precise. And if it was done by eye, the test already proved that not everybody's eyes are the same.
Is the X-Rite unit being used for calibration by any member?
What is the proper way that it is being done - if this scenario is wrong?
Yes - I'm fishing for the right response...

http://www.the-digital-picture.com/Reviews/Gretag-Macbeth-i1-Eye-One-Display-Review.aspx
 
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Well I scored 19 on an old, non calibrated, laptop. I'm happy with that :)
 
I scored

* Your score: 43
* Gender: Male
* Age range: 30-39
* Best score for your gender and age range: 0
* Highest score for your gender and age range: 1464

I was able to determine most of the Hues but it got hard in the middle. Thanks for the test
 
I scored an 18, It got really tough on the third one, cause it all looks the same by then, but I know I dont have the best vision.

Good Test, thanks
 
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