color

Most people know David Attenborough for being the calming and authoritative voice of nature documentaries. But few know that he is the reason tennis balls are yellow.

Nothing to see here. You take photos on a smartphone to share them on social media, and that’s it. Only a tiny minority of phone users would ever ponder the color gamut of smartphones or their color management. Accuracy is not a priority.

The early days of photography were built on monochromatic imagery. Many of the greats who created what we now know as the art of photography worked primarily with black-and-white film.

For most photographers, color is a crucial component of their images. As a result, it only makes sense to want the colors that you envision to come through in the same way when others view your photographs. That can be easier said than done, however.

Retouch4Me has announced a new artificial intelligence (AI) plugin called Color Match that can be used to apply colors from a reference image to a second working image.

Researchers at the streaming powerhouse Netflix have discovered an innovative way to quickly, easily, and potentially more accurately remove green screens from a scene by turning their actors a bright magenta using red and blue foreground lights.

Resurfaced footage has emerged of the historical moment a television channel in the U.S. switched from its black-and-white programming to color for the very first time.

According to some spiritual beliefs, an aura, sometimes called an energy field, is an atmosphere or quality surrounding something, often a person or other living thing.

Westcott has announced FlexiGels, a new custom-made silicone color gel accessory for its FJ400 strobes.

Semiconductor company Spectricity has developed a proprietary spectral imaging technology that is capable of greatly improving smartphone cameras by making them smarter and able to capture colors more consistently no matter the lighting condition.

Picture Instruments says its Master Match Software can turn any color into any other color, making it ideal for color matching different cameras together or making any camera's photos or videos look like they were captured with a different camera.

Apple is interested in developing a way for its Pencil accessory to be able to sample both the color and texture of real-world surfaces via an optical sensor in its tip.

London was founded by the Romans in the first century A.D. and is one of the most storied cities in the world. A new book of colorized photos breathes fresh life into the city's history.

Photography, as the name suggests, is the process of creating images with light. But if you use only light, the entire image will be pure white (or any other color). So we also need the absence of light, or shadows, to create and showcase what we want. It's the interplay between light and shadows that creates the final image.

In the boundless sand dunes of Lençóis Maranhenses National Park in Brazil, photographer Ale Rodrigues was determined to capture the "pureza" (or purity) of the landscape.

A new study has corrected the work of Erwin Schrödinger after an error was found in the famed physicist’s 3D math that describes how eyes distinguish one color from another.

Panaluxe has announced the Panaluxe Smart Color Target (Type 1) that it claims can instantly generate Direct Scene-Referred (DSRTM) color profiles regardless of camera or location.

Digital colorist Marina Amaral can spend anywhere from three hours to three weeks breathing new life into old black and white photographs.

The use of strong and complementary colors is an ever-growing trend in photography. Many modern advertising campaigns feature bold and contrasting colors in order to draw your focus to the product or message they are trying to sell. One way to create such vibrant color in your own images is by using colored gels (also known as color filters, filter gels, lighting gels, or simply gels).

Polina Washington spent years only shooting and printing black and white film before adapting powerful and vibrant color to tell a story in her photos.

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I'm sure over the last few years all of us photographers have heard the word cinematic so much that in the end, it may have lost all meaning. Is every photo with crushed backs and a cyan-orange color grade "cinematic?" I'd say, no.