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Contribution for The Sunday Challenge #409: Different perspective

Contribution for The 50 Images-Project: Still Life 46/50

"Ein Stamm von lauter Farbenblinden könnte sehr wohl leben." -Wittgenstein

One who sees all colors, would be a shaman among color blinds, being able to distinguish the red fruits from green ones only by looking at them.

On the National Geographic web article On Island of the Colorblind, Paradise Has a Different Hue, Photographer Sanne De Wilde used infrared filters and camera settings to create a luminous effect. But how color blinds really see things vary depending on the type of color blindness.

On the island of Pingelap people have a rare complete achromatopsia, which means they see no colors at all, which probably looks more or less the same as seeing only the shades of gray. What puzzles me if they have some "filter effect" on their vision, allowing to see some color hues brighter than the others.

You can also test online how some photograph or web page looks in different types of color blindness.

On PiP notes you can see the following versions:
Image turned to B&W with GIMP luminance algorithm
Image turned to B&W with GIMP average algorithm
Protanopia (red-blindness)
Deuteranopia (green-blindness)
Tritanopia (blue-blindness)

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48 comments

©UdoSm said:

Did you dig in your toy box... ;-))
5 years ago

Sami Serola (inactiv… replied to ©UdoSm:

Someone has to play with them while grandchildren are not visiting us! =D
5 years ago

Xata said:

And complementary colours too! Well done.
5 years ago ( translate )

Sami Serola (inactiv… replied to Xata:

Yes, that as well =)
5 years ago

Ulrich John said:

Fine series, Sami !
5 years ago ( translate )

Sami Serola (inactiv… replied to Ulrich John:

Thank you, Ulrich =)
5 years ago

Jaap van 't Veen said:

Beautiful bright colours.
Have a nice Sunday Sami.
5 years ago

Diederik Santema said:

That's a fine still life with all these toys and colour variations.
5 years ago

neira-Dan said:

c'est super joli , bien composé , et de belles couleurs
5 years ago ( translate )

Thérèse said:

Géniale!
Bon dimanche
5 years ago ( translate )

Wierd Folkersma said:

the main one for sure is the best one, nice and funny
5 years ago

Nautilus said:

une interprétation très intelligente du challenge d 'aujourd'hui !
5 years ago ( translate )

Chrissy said:

klasse Idee!
5 years ago ( translate )

Jan said:

Wow! Lots of interesting information too.
5 years ago

Ghislaine said:

une belle idée sur un point de vue "inhabituel" : la perception des couleurs lorsqu'on est porteur d'une trouble de la vue ...
5 years ago ( translate )