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Originally Posted by Acey
Indeed, as per the other photos of it. But what I'm saying is... there is no black anywhere in the photo and this is proven by sampling the colours.
So my thought process on this is that to say the dress is black/blue, based on this photo, means you are either
a) subconsciously accounting for the fact that we know the actual dress is black/blue, or
b) subconsciously using what you know about how different types of lighting affect colours and correcting the white balance
...because, as per the photo, the darkest colour is a relatively moderate brown so you must be doing one of the two.
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Well obviously you account for the lighting in a photo when judging the color of an object. Like if you see a photo of a room taken under warm lighting where white walls have an orange cast to them, you don't actually think the walls are orange, you know they're still white (or close to it) but are being affected by the temperature of the light source.
Or in the case of the dress, the whole image looks overexposed and under a warm light, so the black of the dress will tend to look faded (i.e. grey) with some warmth added which results in a darker brown color. But it's totally natural to compensate for the lighting conditions when judging color and that's exactly what people who think the blue is actually white are doing too. They're incorrectly thinking that it's a white dress under lighting conditions that make it look blue.