Monday, November 16, 2009

A Conundrum

I'm back! (Three months after I said I might be blogging more...nice...) And I have a conundrum, a quandry, a puzzle. I got some yarn in the mail this afternoon. It's cloudy and dark outside (I miss Daylight Savings!) so I thought, it's okay, I can take pictures inside. They won't be great, but they'll be okay. The problem is, two cameras and few different WB settings later, I can't for the life of me get the colors to work.

Look at all these pictures of this lovely yarn:

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The problem is, the yarn is not that color. It is sitting on a white background, which appears to be fairly white (on my computer and camera monitors), but the yarn is much greener than it appears to be in the pics. The closest I can get to the true color of the yarn is this:

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(I know, it burns my eyes, too!)

That is obviously awful, and still not that close to the color of the yarn.

What gives? Does anyone have any ideas? I know it'll be best to wait for a sunny morning, but I've gotten decent results inside before. Why not this time?

Regardless of the pictures, the yarn really is a gorgeous color. I won it in a contest over at Threadpanda's blog, and I love it. I can't wait to start a Parallel Lines Scarf with it. If nothing else, I'll get good color pictures then! =)
Posted by Unknown at 5:31 PM
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7 comments:

  1. barbNovember 16, 2009 at 11:15 PM

    spose it's the flash? I understand that natural lite the brite colours works best.

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  2. UnknownNovember 16, 2009 at 11:18 PM

    I actually didn't use the flash on any of these. I tried a few times and, as expected, those pictures were even worse. It's so weird!

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  3. barbNovember 17, 2009 at 2:29 PM

    possibly yukky bulbs in the lighting in the room.........flourescent?

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  4. UnknownNovember 18, 2009 at 10:57 AM

    Yep, it was a fluorescent bulb, which usually the camera corrects for pretty well, but not this time. I took some more pictures outside this morning, and they are better, but still not super color-accurate. It may just be a tricky color!

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  5. kim @ mommyknowsNovember 24, 2009 at 11:48 AM

    Not a clue!

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  6. doodlesDecember 2, 2009 at 10:31 AM

    hey I wanted you to see this that my niece did

    http://malteseparakeet.blogspot.com/2009/11/i-dyed-yarn.html

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  7. CatherineAnneJanuary 6, 2010 at 1:48 PM

    I can't wait to see the scarf!

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