Saturday, July 15, 2006

Would you believe . . .

These two skeins of yarn are a very vibrant deep royal purple of very nearly the same shade.


And just to make things interesting, I've placed the two purple skeins next to two blue skeins of yarn. The two blue skeins are very different shades. The leftover skein in the front is pretty much a true blue. The skein in the back has more green to it but it is a really deep vibrant color. Neither one is washed out like the colors in the photo.


And just to keep things interesting, I put the skeins on the end of my coffee table in a patch of sunshine coming through the window in my living room. The purple looks purplish, but all the colors are still washed out.


So then I thought I'd take these little fellows outside to see what shaded daylight would do for the colors. This snap is of them sitting on the hood of the Prodigal's car.


And this is of them sitting on the trunk of my car. Notice how my car doesn't look the green that it actually is.


And lastly, I brought them back in and sat them against a white wall just to see what would happen.


So there you have the saga of the yarn and the camera that can't capture color.

9 comments:

Tati said...

Is there someplace in the camera where you can adjust the white balance?
I mean, at least the wall should look white and not pinkish :-(

Seitherin said...

I don't know. I've never really fussed with it much. It's a reasonably inexpensive Kodak camera that takes wonderful pictures out in the sunshine. I guess I need to hunt the manual down to see if there are any settings I've changed or need to change.

Roseunicorn said...

do you have a flash attachment on the camera?

Seitherin said...

It's a built-in automatic flash.

I haven't had a chance to futz with the camera yet. I probably won't mess with it till the next batch of yarn comes in. (Yes, I got another skein. I am so evil!)

Roseunicorn said...

So when do Karen and I get afghans???? hehehe = I have another horse (that makes 2 horses, 41 goats, 13 cats, and 5 dogs). Sorry no partridge in a pear tree - I am allergic to birdies.

Seitherin said...

Oy! Just thinking about how many stitches across it would need to be and how long it would take me to finish one is giving me nightmares . . . and I'm not even asleep yet.

;D

Roseunicorn said...

I think Karen and I should gang up on you and bug you til you give one of us an afghan? hehehehe

Anonymous said...

even if the colours in the pictures aren't how they really look, they still look pretty!

please tell me you were joking about your car actually being green... :)

Seitherin said...

I wasn't joking about the car. It is a pale soft pearl green and not silver or grey. The operative words are 'pale', 'soft', and 'pearl'. In the right light, the color has been mistaken for silver.