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Is Black and White photography better?
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That makes me think of my dad who died years ago. My dad would use his colorblindness to cover his total lack of interest in visual art of any kind. He literally didn't seem to be able to tell the difference between a photo and a not even very realistic painting and if anyone questioned him on it he'd say something like "well, you know that I'm colorblind, right?"
Henry Falkner
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Thank you all foryour corrections and anecdotes.
I was wrong.
Henry
I was wrong.
Henry
Tom Axford
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Hawkypuck
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I think 'current ones' is supposed to mean color photos, which are currently popular and in use.
tbcass
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Excellent. Admitting to making a mistake is uncommon on DPR with some people going to great lengths to cover up the fact they were wrong about something.
Mackiesback
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I look forward to the day in the distant future when I am wrong about something so I can do the same. :-D:-D:-D
I don't think that you are wrong in the sense that if one is colorblind and can't reliably tell certain colors apart, I can see that they may prefer to deal with B&W, if only so that they are better able to communicate their aesthetic intent to others. If a colorblind person is working in a color medium they don't necessarily have a very good idea on how they're communicating the color information in the work to other people.
Henry Falkner
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I thought that 'color blind' means 'seeing the world in tones of grey'. This seems to be not what actually happens.
Henry
Kodachrome needs to be kept in the dark. I have several Kodachromes that were spoiled by being left out in the light.
Don
True.
Robert Fawcett was a very successful illustrator who was colour blind. He wrote a good book on drawing, and his drawing is superb. But his colours are muddy.
R S Sherriffs is another. The only colour work by him that I've ever seen is an edition of Omar Khayyam, and the use of colour in that is poor. He did a great many illustrations to reviews of movies in the 1950s.
Don
There are two opponent-colour signals that go from the retina to the brain: red/green and blue/yellow. In color-blind people the red/green signal is weak or occasionally absent, because the peaks of the response curves for their medium- and long-wave receptor cones are too close together.
In old people whose lenses have darkened with age, the blue/yellow signal is weak because little blue light gets through the lens. You can simulate this effect by wearing Ray-Bann sunglasses. A cataract operation will fix this problem.
Don
David Pavlich
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There was a very well known graphic designer Tibor Kalman who was known to be colorblind. His particular skills certainly weren't for color then and he didn't, as far as I know, have skills in illustration, photography or other media, but had a kind of conceptual genius, which was apprently enough to make him a star in his chosen profession.True.
Robert Fawcett was a very successful illustrator who was colour blind. He wrote a good book on drawing, and his drawing is superb. But his colours are muddy.
R S Sherriffs is another. The only colour work by him that I've ever seen is an edition of Omar Khayyam, and the use of colour in that is poor. He did a great many illustrations to reviews of movies in the 1950s.
Don
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Chris Noble
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Why do you think artists have always drawn in charcoal in addition to painting in colors? If you don't know the answer, an art appreciation course might be interesting for you.
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