The Color Purple - Hard to Reproduce

[ronstelzy]

My biggest problem with flower shots is getting an exact duplication of the color I shot right of the camera, without playing with the many ways to alter color in Elements. If I'm using raw the white balance control can be used easily.

Any suggestions?

[Codebreaker]

Ron....

The possibility is that the colour you see in real life just can't be reproduced by a screen or printer. Some purples are outside the range.

Our eyes can respond to a much wider range of colours than these devices. Take a look at the attached image. It shows a representation of what our eyes can see - the whole envelope, versus what screens and printers are capable of - inside the lines.

Why not post a copy of the shot for us to take a look at? Of course we wont know what the real life flower should be :-)

Colin

[vawitt]

Wow - that's gorgeous!

Interesting comment on the color purple. Our local teams (Bears and Packers) play the Minnesota Vikings at least twice a year. If one network broadcasts the game, the uniforms look deep purple (which they are). If the game is on a different network, the uniforms look much more blue. Same TV. Hmmm...

Colin - the link under Ron's name will take you to his gallery and you can see his pretty purple flower! :)

[Codebreaker]

Good shot Ron. As I said previously - only you can tell how close this is to the real thing. It looks good to me though.

Colin

[frank abramonte]

Ron, are you referring to lavender or purple?

Can you find the purple you refer to displayed in this link"

http://www.noodlersink.com/samples.html


This may help you understand purple:

http://deron.meranda.us/topics/purple/

PS: As usual, beautiful photo.

[mljrbg]

Ron, I think the flower is stunning. The purple looks great.

[ronstelzy]

Thanks Frank, quite an education. The before pictures are always much bluer than what we see. I probably could leave them that way and nobody would know the difference.

[ladybug]

Ron your flowers are always so awesome! Lovely.

[Martha]

Another gorgeous flower, Ron!
Really interesting information on the color purple, Frank. Thanks for posting the link.
Martha