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Article: Color is visual response to wavelengths of light.
- Article from:
- PSA Journal
- Article date:
- September 1, 1996
- Author:
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Perhaps you take colors and light, and your visual response to them for granted! An understanding of how you perceive them could affect your photography in numerous ways.
Perception of color is highly personal in the way an individual's eyes respond to light waves and in the sensation of color in the human mind. The nature of light also plays a role in the perception of color. Three processes are involved: physical, physiological, and psychological.
The physics of the process is the light entering the eye, and the factors determining the spectral composition of the light. The physiology of the process is the retina, and visual pathway's response to the ...