How are Your Eyes?

There's probably nothing more important to a photographer than his eyesight, but when you're editing them on your computer or getting ready to send them to the lab, something else becomes equally important.  Color.

Understanding colors and hues (including the shades between black & white, too) and the simple fact that your eyes see them different than your digital (or film) camera can interpret them is a major realization.  In fact, your camera "sees" them different, your monitor "sees" them different, your home printer "sees" them different and your lab printer "sees" them different.

You can buy calibrators to compensate for your monitors inadequacy to interpret the dynamic range God has given you (and probably a wise investment if you plan to sell your prints).

Just for fun, here's a free online test that allows you to test your eyes ability to see different hues (the quality of a color as determined by its dominant wavelength).  Click here (the eye chart above and to the left was obviously for humor, the link is genuine).