Room for one colour

Went to the exhibition "Monochrome" at the National Gallery today and thoroughly recommend it. The pièce de resistance is the final immersive work by Olafur Eliasson which is a room lit entirely by monochrome sodium lamps. This lighting has the effect of obliterating colour so that everything in the room looks as if in monochrome.

This image is SOOC with no processing whatsoever, taken using auto white balance on the camera. Interestingly, when viewed on the back of the camera while in the room, this image was various shades of pink.

I got chatting to a group of photographers much more technically knowledgeable than I am. They guessed at the colour temperature of the lights and, sure enough, when I set the custom WB to 2800 the image in the back of the camera looked more or less as if black and white. All very fascinating. I'm intrigued by colour temperatures and WB now.

Here's the link to the exhibition:
http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/whats-on/exhibitions/monochrome-painting-in-black-and-white

[Helen Jane]

Striking enough to be an exhibit itself. Im not sure I followed all of that - but it is late at night. Glad you are enthused!

[Yao RL]

Living in London is a treat, I would love the see it. I will surely go through the link, thanks.

[Issi Bannerman]

Wow, what a fascinating read - I need to look into it more!

[lisa]

so interesting! There is so much to learn about photography!

[HelenM]

@helenhall I think I was rambling! Please ignore.
@yaorenliu We are very lucky.
@jamibann If you are in London, worth a look.
@lisammcloskey So much to learn. Never-ending I suspect.

[kali]

very cool info, you could tag for theme-colour

[HelenM]

@kali66 Thanks, Kali. I've done that. Is there a post explaining what the theme-colour is all about?

[kali]

https://365project.org/blog/weekly-theme-colour

[HelenM]

@kali66 Many thanks.