What color are they?

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

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


Not what you said earlier.


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.


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?


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.


Then why did you?


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


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!!'


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

Boru

If I am giving that "reporter" any slack, they are just another sucker falling for a fluff piece.

Once when I was working at a major pizza joint, one of the chicken wing drumlets that was fatty on the side,  came out looking like the shape of a cross. So that must mean Jesus is real? What if I had saved it, took it to reporters and a reporter said, "Hey look at this" and did a story on it? This is simply more seeing "Godzilla" in the clouds. 

It is nonsense.

And you have no curiosity as to why people perceive a difference colour in the same image? 

Boru