What colour is this dress?

How did this silly story start anyhow… Is this also going to be some new marketing ploy? I'm assuming so many will be wanting the dress now… and the price likely doubled.

Also who took the photo? Employee of the shop?

robfosters said:
This is getting beyond ridiculous now. Just been on the news ffs!
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Lol, 30 minutes on Sky News.

Ridiculous Sky News has been covering this since 7:30 and tweet analysing spikes. So sad.
 
Now the one on the right is Black and Blue. How on earth can anyone say the original was Black and Blue really beggars belief !

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Raymond Lin said:
Now the one on the right is Black and Blue. How on earth can anyone say the original was Black and Blue really beggars belief !
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Saw the picture of a gold and white mock up and gf said it looked like that!
Still not seen one pic where original looks gold and white at all
 
e36Adz said:
Yes I know, but do you see the colour change as the camera moves?

BTW I also only see white/gold on the original pic.
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I am well aware of the whole phenomenal of WB (white balance) when something is in the light to shadows or day light to indoor light (tungsten/fluorescent), this is more a problem for cameras as sensors have much smaller dynamic range than our human eyes.

Perhaps I am used to this. It is normal for me to battle with white balance late in the evening for a shoot, or even in the day time with the combination of day light from the window and tungsten light intermally.

If you make the intermal photo WB correct, everything near the window will have a blue hue. You will get a slow gradient from yellow to blue (or green hue depending if it is flourecent lighting)

Or the complete opposite in the evening, if you use flash in a tungsten light environment, once you have corrected WB in the foreground, you will get a yellow background. To get around this you can fill the background with either off camera flashes or use a yellow gel on the flash to match the indoor lighting, consequently firing the flash in the same Kelvin of light as the ambient light.

You then set the camera white balance to manual to dial in and compensate, then the photos will come out even both foreground and background. The slight problem with that is that was not the scene that everyone saw, and sometimes the result isn't as pleasing as just a key light on camera and let the background be what the normal ambient background would've been (as that is what people remembers). I constantly have to tweak so that a white wedding dress remains white no matter what lighting it is, in consequence you also get a more natural skin tone. If I know what a piece of clothing is in real life and I will aim to tweak the WB so that it is so in the photo.

Anyway, my point is I am fully aware how white balance affects colours on piece of clothing and skin, and the original photo as it is, it is not black and blue.
 
^ I have no idea about all that, but I see it as white and gold. :p

I'm in the minority as most people have been looking at me funny today saying 'obviously it's black and blue!'
 
ok weird i've been seeing it as white and gold all day.

watched the video on the news website now its blue and black even the picture i downloaded which i zoomed in on to prove what colour it was is now blue and black

my wife on the other hand thinks i've gone nuts and can only see white and gold even after watching the video
 
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