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Man! I laughed at first and when I saw that with my left eye left image looks fine I laughed even more. i think I have exactly the same difference like you :D

I noticed this only a few months ago. It’s kind of weird. I still haven’t decided whether it is a permanent thing, or something that just happens after one eye has had more of a different light source in it than another (if you know what I mean).

I tried looking at each photo with each eye, and there is a barely perceivable difference between the two eyes. I’m not really up on color temperatures, but the sky appears very slightly darker with my right eye.

They look exactly the same to me. I feel speshul. :D

I diverged my eyes, and aligned the two images, on the off chance that the photos were 3D on top of being color shifted. This makes me a giant nerd, and I’m ok with that.

I definitely have a slight difference between my eyes, but I can’t actually tell if it’s a white balance difference, or just an overall exposure difference. As someone who is definitely right-eye dominant, I think my right eye might just be more sensitive to light.

More interesting to me was the discovery that if I free fuse your example example images, as if it were a Stereogram, I get a clear impression of true depth. Amazes me that a simple change in white balance would bring that about.

Perhaps the difference is there by design, so that there is more data for the brain to compute the perception of reality?

I’ve noticed this in the past as well, though like Jacob, I’m not sure whether it really is a permanent bias or just a result of one eye having had different light conditions than the other in the past few minutes. I notice this very well when I’m in very bright conditions and I close one eye to keep out the light.

After a few minutes my one eye will see very blue, while the other will see rather red. Then when I close my other eye, a few minutes later the situation will be reversed.

Mine are the same as yours, colder on the left. I think what you are experiencing here is the normal ‘imperfection’ of physiology.

As we age, our corneas become more yellow – which is why designers should never use yellow typefaces on white for a target audience of pensioners, and why my octagenarian father prints horribly blue images on his cheap printer. Ok, he oversharpens the life out of everything too, but you get the drift.

I’d guess that in low light, your more open iris means that what you see has passed through a greater quantity of your lens picking up more tint.

I’ve wondered about this a lot whilst calibrating my monitor. Should I move away from colour prints by the time I’m sixty and stick to black and white?

As a related issue, 8% of men are colour blind. How many photographers have tested themselves?

The lens of your right eye may be more yellow than your other lens. As you age the lenses yellows and gets more ridged, the loss of flexibility is why people have to start wearing bi or tri focal lenses.

:)

My left eye has always seen everything as much “brighter” than the right. I don’t know if it has anything to do with it, but every time I’ve ever gone out into bright sunlight, I’ve sneezed.

Hey, I get that too, Ross – and we’re not alone. According to Wikipedia: Photic sneeze reflex, also known by the backronym Autosomal Dominant Compelling Helio-Ophthalmic Outburst (ACHOO Syndrome), is an autosomal dominant hereditary trait which causes sneezing (due to naso-ocular reflex [2]) when suddenly exposed to bright light, possibly many times consecutively. The condition affects 18-35% of the human population.

To the author of the article, and others who experience something similar: consider having your eyes checked for cataracts. They’ve got a yellow tint to them and can easily explain this sort of difference in color balance.

I doubt it’s something to panic about, but I’m sure you and your opthamologist would both appreciate the inquiry now rather than later.

Cheers,

b&

Ahh, color balance. Funny what your camera (or different lights) can do. If you’re interested in seeing how famous photographers light their images, check out:

GuessTheLighting.com

Yepp, the same here. I’ve noticed this already at school, just remember me sitting in biology, asking the teacher whether that’s normal and he didn’t know :)

Wow, I didn’t about this. I’m going to test it out later. Thanks. Great article.

They look exactly the same to me. I feel speshul. :D

The vote is pretty cool, but I would not wonder if most of the people who do not have equal color balance do wear glasses… the perception of light is altered because of myopia/hyperopia. :)

I’ve noticed a difference, and i’m currently researching…that ‘s how i found your website… My question is, if people that are right eye dominant, do you see the world in a darker perspective, and vica versa?