Famous colorblind photographers?

05/06/2005 02:59:23 AM · #1

Does anybody in the vast community here ever heard of famous colorblind photographer. Could be the photographer's "Did you know Beethoven was deaf ?"

Or any other artist/performer that had any form of handicap challenging a direct aspect of their work?

I saw a show about a female dancer in wheel chair! I'm sure there must be colorblind photographers out there. Hey! Maybe I'm not the only one here!

Let me know!

Message edited by author 2005-05-06 03:01:02.

05/06/2005 03:17:01 AM · #2

dont know of any colorblind photographers, but you would be suprised how many graphic artists that are....and some of them are very good with color theory (could never figure that out) but im not colorblind, so I dont know how much of a hindurence it is.

Hey ya can always work black and white

05/06/2005 03:24:20 AM · #3

Originally posted by mrmojo:

(...)Hey ya can always work black and white

Yeah, but I don't want to limit myself to that. Because I do see colors, just not all of them.

The way it is for me, imagine seing the chromatic star (not sure about the term, french translation, sorry) but some secondary colors are perceived by it's strongest color. Ex: Purple will be seen either blue or red. I only see well balanced green, and orange. But purple is the one I have the most trouble with.

Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6

05/06/2005 03:45:08 AM · #4

just shoot the photos and have someone else do your color correction, cause thats the only place I could see a hinderence. Or you could get a pantone book with colors marked in percentages (make sure you get one with the color names too, i think they are interior design pantone books) and then spot color to find out the color. Its kind of a mathmatical approach to correction. They are a little pricy though. Or you could shoot to your liking and say screw it to the rest of us full spectrum seeing people.

I love b&W and I cant wait to get back into school and get into the darkroom again..

Just think of it this way: you see life in a completely different spectrum

BlackDot

Canon EOS-20D

05/06/2005 03:48:59 AM · #5

Well, I'm not famous or anything, yet :-) but I have a Red Green deficiancy.

I work as an Animator-Lighter-Texture artist and have no problems whatsoever. The trick is to see clour as "normal" people see them. I tend to go a bit heavy on the reds, If I'm not carefull, I'll overcompensate with blue.

I'm not worried by it at all. I differentiate between more greens than most people can, and see the most brilliant sunsets ;-)

05/06/2005 03:51:19 AM · #6

I like all the color photos in your profile. Spingtime on the farm, and lunchtime have a very nice effect to them. You saturate the blue and under saturate the reds in lunchtime, like the effect though. I dont quite know what you did with Springtime, but it is interesting. I dont like real world color anyways...

05/06/2005 03:53:57 AM · #7

nice, where do you work at

05/06/2005 03:54:18 AM · #8

if you dont mind me askin

05/06/2005 03:56:05 AM · #9

Originally posted by mrmojo:

The farm got a lot comments about the pink barn... I didn't know about it, I used the burn too... I don't know how the pink was inserted. That's another color I have a hard time with.

05/06/2005 03:59:22 AM · #10

I thought it was cool, it added a focal point, drew your eyes down the field to the barn. Most photographers here are realists and journalistic photographers. Most didnt understand the concept of surrealism, or much of any modernist styles (minus minimalism, but that is pretty easy to understand)

05/06/2005 04:01:51 AM · #11

Originally posted by mrmojo:

nice, where do you work at

I worked as an e-business coordinator for a car auction company. I left that place a few months ago, some changes in the structure kinda put me back where I had started 4 years ago...

Right now I'm vacation looking for work. I'm trying to get the most skills in photography. I allready have some contracts. I was hired to shoot a swimsuit/lingerie show and the owner of the erotic boutique that organises the show also asked me to shoot the store for their web site. Life is cool...

05/06/2005 04:07:16 AM · #12

just hope they dont wear pink bras :)

You did animation/texture/lighting for an online car company?

scratch that... sorry, didnt see it was two different people posting

05/06/2005 04:08:21 AM · #13

thats funny reddot, because the dominant colors in your photo are red and green!!!!

05/06/2005 04:11:11 AM · #14

Originally posted by mrmojo:

just hope they dont wear pink bras :)

You did animation/texture/lighting for an online car company?

scratch that... sorry, didnt see it was two different people posting

That's okay... No I was processing sales, printing contracts, making charts, customer service, translation, tranport dispatcher... Then my boss lost most of her responsibility, took mines and I was stuck doing data entry. Sorry but... Fuck that!

Edit: Wow! That felt good!

Message edited by author 2005-05-06 04:13:24.

05/06/2005 04:17:59 AM · #15

Love the Edit!!!!!!

05/06/2005 04:35:54 AM · #16

Originally posted by mrmojo:

nice, where do you work at

What about you BlackDot? I believe the question was going out to you as well.

e301

05/06/2005 04:40:36 AM · #17

This photographer and this photographer are both colour-blind. Maybe not universally famous, but a good start ...

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Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6

05/06/2005 04:45:56 AM · #18

Originally posted by e301:

This photographer and this photographer are both colour-blind. Maybe not universally famous, but a good start ...

e

Really? Wow! That's encouraging. They're both amazing! How do you know about this? Is there an existing thread I could look up?

e301

05/06/2005 05:08:54 AM · #19

There was a thread somewhere, a very long while ago - over a year, i should think.

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BlackDot

Canon EOS-20D

05/06/2005 05:25:53 AM · #20

Sorry grandmarginal. I work freelance doing mostly TV and DVD documentaries and TV ads.

Interestingly, both those photographers mentiononed, as well as meself, use a Sony F828 primarily. Coicidence?

Sigma 28-80mm f/3.5-5.6 Aspherical HF for Pentax

05/06/2005 05:28:17 AM · #21

Originally posted by BlackDot:

(...)Interestingly, both those photographers mentiononed, as well as meself, use a Sony F828 primarily. Coicidence?

What do you think? Do you know of a special feature on that camera that helps?

Pug-H

Pentax K10D

05/06/2005 05:36:20 AM · #22

I was actually wondering a few weeks ago if anybody ever became colour blind during life. That is, one day they suddenly couldn't see certain colours they could see properly before.