Imagine you're looking at a painting that's bright, colorful, and full of life, but when you take a photo of it, it looks flat and dull. That’s because paintings are made with special kinds of colors, called pigments, which behave differently under different lights. In real life, the light from a museum or gallery makes the colors pop, but in photos, sometimes that light gets lost.
Examples
- A red apple looks vivid under sunlight, but in a photo taken indoors with white lights, it may look more pink.
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See also
- How Does My favorite art secret - Simultaneous Contrast Work?
- How Do Painters Make Colors Appear to Glow from Within?
- How Do Artists See Color Differently?
- What is achromatic?
- What are subtractive primaries?