Color contrast

Contribution for The Sunday Challenge #409: Different perspective

Contribution for The 50 Images-Project: Still Life 46/50

"Ein Stamm von lauter Farbenblinden könnte sehr wohl leben." -Wittgenstein

One who sees all colors, would be a shaman among color blinds, being able to distinguish the red fruits from green ones only by looking at them.

On the National Geographic web article On Island of the Colorblind, Paradise Has a Different Hue, Photographer Sanne De Wilde used infrared filters and camera settings to create a luminous effect. But how color blinds really see things vary depending on the type of color blindness.

On the island of Pingelap people have a rare complete achromatopsia, which means they see no colors at all, which probably looks more or less the same as seeing only the shades of gray. What puzzles me if they have some "filter effect" on their vision, allowing to see some color hues brighter than the others.

You can also test online how some photograph or web page looks in different types of color blindness.

On PiP notes you can see the following versions:
➽ Image turned to B&W with GIMP luminance algorithm
➽ Image turned to B&W with GIMP average algorithm
➽ Protanopia (red-blindness)
➽ Deuteranopia (green-blindness)
➽ Tritanopia (blue-blindness)

Inspired by the Saturday Self-Challenge complementary colors photos.