When taking photos of plants on my phone in particular flowers… the light or camera itself will take a picture that differs in colour from real life. This is making ID later on challenging and makes poor reference when I am learning. What solutions are there to stop this happening? I am a bit new…

The “chromatic subjectivity” of photos shot by just about every camera, whether an expensive DSLR or a smartphone, is always a major problem when identifying life forms where colour is an important factor. Although there’s no foolproof one-click answer, there is a trick that can go a long way to eli…

Some digital CCDs are just weak at properly differentiating blues and purples. I think it’s ok to relax about color fidelity a bit, since as long as the color family is right, it’s probably not a key characteristic for identification. But as people have said, a white scale marker or reference card …

I activated HDR in my cam settings. This lets the camera take additional photos automatically, solving the problem of green leaves or flower colors against a bright sky.

Camera colours are not accurate. Phone camera colours are even less accurate because of the geometry of short lens stacks. I remember a couple of years ago a photo of a girl in a stiped top circulating with a challenge to identify the real colours. The stripes were light and dark blue on a photo ta…

Sounds like you have a yellow shift on your phone. This is to ease looking at screens; as blue light is harsher to eyes. You can control that setting on iPhones in settings - display and brightness. Make sure true tone is on and night shift is off. Other phones have similar yellow shift features to …

[image] vbjanos: We can adjust perception based on the time of the day and light conditions, a camera cannot. isn’t adjusting for light conditions the whole idea behind white balancing in a camera?

Point and shoot ‘Auto’ modes and most smartphone defaults share the problem of colour intensification. More vivid greens, perky blues and reds. It’s because that’s what most non-naturalists want. If your phone has a ‘pro’ shooting mode, you may be able to shut that off. (I know I can with my Samsun…

I thought it was just Lumix cameras that suffered the blue/purple problem. Iris siberica never looks right through a DMC-TZ18. And the same picture even on a decent laptop with a professional-grade monitor is no better.

[image] NoGenAI: Usually yellow shift on phones is default on these days and you have to turn it off. Is that what’s wrong with my Xanthomendoza observation? The first picture is close to the true colors, but each successive zoom in looks progressively greener instead of the true yellow?

Phone camera - colours of plants not accurate

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marina_gorbunova November 26, 2022, 12:33am 23

You have different hue and temperature points for each photo.

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Phone camera - colours of plants not accurate

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