But Jesus Christ on a bike, is photographing it ever a pain in the arse. I think Nfu.Oh must put some weird plasticisers in their polish that deflect light (it applies a lot like seche vite, it feels more like molten plastic than polish and has a super shiny opaque jelly type finish) because they all go through some kind of insane hall of mirrors transformation in front of a camera. Through my viewfinder, it looks like this amazing bright teal blue. On my focussing screen, it looks like either light azure or royal blue. So I wrestle with the settings, try again...still whacked. Swear a bit, fiddle some more, all to no avail. So, um, try and imagine it like this, but with more of a cyan undertone, brighter, and about thirty times better.
Last time I photoshopped the frack out of it to get it even half way close to the real colour. This time I gave up and tried to trick my camera with my car's paintwork. I mentioned previously that it's very close to my car's colour. While it turns out that my camera also hates my paintwork, it hates it a bit less, so I thought that might be a useful comparison swatch. You can see the green undertone better in my car! So, erm, try to imagine that in the polish. Yes.
great color :)
ReplyDeleteLovely color. It really suits your skintone. I understand what you mean, it also drives me nuts when certain polishes don't show up true to color on camera.
ReplyDeleteI am glad you mentioned this has that touch of green in the crayon blue. It's a great neon. Keep up the good work - know how difficult it is to photo the neons. I am surprised that this really is a neon being as it's blue. I find the red and blue neons are really usually not true neons in polish land.
ReplyDeletefind a true royal blue bg - cloth, paper, etc and photograph w/ hand in front. it should show the difference much better. :o)
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