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--> Lighting can play a good part in this as well. The human eye evolved to perceive colors the best at the sun's color temperature. Higher temperatures like those of the CFL lamps and cool white LEDs that make up interior lighting in most places tend to wash out the color of the objects they illuminate.
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--> Lighting can play a good part in this as well. The human eye evolved to perceive colors the best at the sun\'s color temperature. Higher temperatures like those of the CFL lamps and cool white LEDs that make up interior lighting in most places tend to wash out the color of the objects they illuminate.
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This is not really correct. A vast majority of light sources used in everyday life actually have color temperature lower than sunlight (which is around 5800K when talking about direct sunlight at noon). Most of the light sources with color temperature close to the color temperature of sunlight tend to be used for specialized purposes, eg. filming or photography. The reason for this is that we're used to very warm artificial lighting, so the actual color temperature of the majority of indoor lighting is in fact very warm, around 2700K. The
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This is not really correct. A vast majority of light sources used in everyday life actually have color temperature lower than sunlight (which is around 5800K when talking about direct sunlight at noon). Most of the light sources with color temperature close to the color temperature of sunlight tend to be used for specialized purposes, eg. filming or photography. The reason for this is that we\'re used to very warm artificial lighting, so the actual color temperature of the majority of indoor lighting is in fact very warm, around 2700K. The \"blueish\" bulbs that are advertised as \"bright white\" or \"daylight\" are still only between 3500-4500K mostly, and yet we tend to perceive them as very blue and rooms that use them can look cold, sterile and uninviting to us. Also, blue light interferes with our production of melatonin, leading to sleep issues, so that\'s also a reason why you don\'t really want to use those \"daylight\" bulbs at home in the evenings - they produce a fair amount of blue light to achieve their colder color temperature.
The reason colors do look washed out under artificial lighting and under CFL lighting especially has more to do with the fact that the spectrum of the light of such bulbs is usually not continuous like it is with sunlight, but only has a few peaks in various bands - it adds up to a somewhat \"white\" light overall, but with very different color response than sunlight. If you are a photographer, you might be familiar with how much of a pain shooting under CFL ligthing can be precisely for this reason.
LED lights are somewhat better at this as they provide a more continuous spectrum of light, and it\'s something that\'s constantly being improved, thankfully.
The reason colors do look washed out under artificial lighting and under CFL lighting especially has more to do with the fact that the spectrum of the light of such bulbs is usually not continuous like it is with sunlight, but only has a few peaks in various bands - it adds up to a somewhat \"white\" light overall, but with very different color response than sunlight. If you are a photographer, you might be familiar with how much of a pain shooting under CFL ligthing can be precisely for this reason.
LED lights are somewhat better at this as they provide a more continuous spectrum of light, and it\'s something that\'s constantly being improved, thankfully.
