The reaction of a colour-blind man seeing colour for the first time
Wednesday 10 April 2019, 13:13 by Michelle Peeters | 5,686 views | 1 commentThis article was translated from Dutch with the help of AI. Read the original.
Canadian landscape photographer David Wilder has a form of colour blindness that makes it difficult to distinguish certain colours individually. Recently, he got his hands on a special pair of glasses for colour-blind people. In this 7-minute video, you can see his reaction as he sees the world in full colour for the first time in his life.
It all started in January 2019, when David Wilder wrote an article for Fstoppers about what it is like to work as a colour-blind photographer.
Of the three main types of colour blindness, Protanopia, Deuteranopia and Tritanopia, David Wilder has the second, Deuteranopia. This is red-green colour blindness, where his eyes are insensitive to green and too sensitive to yellow, orange and red.
As a result, some colours, green, yellow, orange, red and brown, look the same, while others, blue / purple and pink / grey, are difficult to distinguish from each other.
After his article was published, David was approached by EnChroma, a well-known company that produces corrective lenses for colour-blind people. EnChroma sent him two pairs of glasses, each costing around 270 to 430 dollars, and David waited until he was travelling to Iceland before trying them for the first time.
When a fiery sunset filled the sky with vivid colours, David brought out the glasses and put them on. In the video above, you can see what happened next.
I was instantly speechless and could no longer move because of what I saw, David writes at Fstoppers. I immediately saw the orange hues explode across the sky, then I began to see the rich pink I had never seen before. Finally, I turned around and saw the deep purple and soft pink on the other side of the sky.
I couldn't help thinking that this couldn't be real. No way had I missed so much colour my entire life!
About the author
Michelle Peeters is fotografe en oprichter van DeuxBleus Fotografie. Michelle herkent het bijzondere in het gewone en het gewone in het bijzondere. Ze heeft zich nooit willen specialiseren en is daardoor van alle markten thuis.
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1 comment
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Huub Keulers
wrote on Thursday 11 April 2019 at 14:28
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What a beautiful and inspiring article Michelle. It just goes to show how lucky you really must be if you don't have a physical disability. Thanks for sharing!
Translated from Dutch.
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