re: #148 goddamnedfrank

She probably selected “outdoor shade” but shot under “tungsten.” The camera internals think the subject is being lit by the blue sky, no direct sunlight, but in reality it’s being lit by a very “warm” low color temp tungsten filament. So the camera brain compensates by clipping out a shit load of the blue from the image thinking that it’s making everything neutral, but it’s really just pumping in a crapload of yellow into an image already lit by yellowish light. So the blue in the dress gets mostly cancelled out and only a bit of it remains. Since everything is slightly overexposed the areas in which the “black” goes anywhere above a zero value shift significantly yellow as well.

xkcd.com