What color are they?

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

I just tried looking at the image again. I moved about to look at it from different angles, and the shoe still looks black. What else you got?

Boru

Boru, does someone pay you to be a constant contrarian to every post I make?

No, it's a service I'm happy to provide for free.

It isn't one factor that can cause someone to see something differently as far as color, but multiple factors.

Not what you said earlier.

1. Light refracting off the object and the difference between what gets absorbed and what bounces back to your eye.

2. Angle.

Yes, I know what colour is, but I'm asking why people perceive the colours in the photograph differently.  It's the same photo, so reflection/refraction isn't the answer, and I've already demonstrated that, in this case, it can't be the angle.

3. Point of view. Just like an 18 wheeler that is two miles in front of you on a flat highway is going to look small compared to the one right next to you. The person in that 18 wheeler 2 miles in front of you is going to see you as small too until they approach you. 

That perspective, not colour. And isn't 'point of view' just another way of saying 'angle', at least as it regards the photograph in question?

4. Even imperfect eyes. If you have "color blindness", which is a horrible term, and does not mean one only sees in black and white, but if you have that malady, your eyes can see any given color slightly different than others. 

Yes, the correct term is 'colour vision deficiency' and I'm familiar - two of my brothers have it.  But it doesn't seem to apply in the case of this photo, since people are only seeing black or white, which would mean that 50% of the people viewing it have the deficiency.  That seems unlikely.

I cannot address the example given.

Then why did you?

I can say however it is no different seeing shapes in clouds.

It's HUGELY different that seeing shapes in clouds.  That's called 'pareidolia' and has nothing to do with colour.

If you want to see something badly enough you will.

I don't really think that applies.  I doubt that a significant number of the people looking at the shoe did so thinking, 'I hope I see black!!'

The original post(the person who wrote the story in the link.  Link s simply another attention seeker just like that stupid dress bullshit.

It a human interest story.  I don't think it's your place to assign motives to the reporter or her editor.

Boru