Human Perception: What You Miss When Gray Looks Like Black

Black is black, and white is white, but it's what lay between determines much about what we see.

Writing about a trip into the heart of the Rockies, cameras in hand, H.E. Clark came to a nuanced conclusion regarding gradations of color and the image before us.

"Although the picture would be called black and white," Clark wrote, "I learned it is better to consider the photographer's palette as a thousand shades of gray … to incorporate as many gray tones as possible, while including the blackest blacks and the whitest whites."

In fact, what even Clark might not have realized is that to exclude elements of gray from what we look at is to shortchange the eye. It's to give up detail and clarityTurns out, gray is critical to the intensity of every image, even if we don't know it at first glance. Read more...

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