newcollector

I've noticed that my India Red changes its shade in different light. But, my Weinrot changes A LOT dependent on the light. Here she is on a clear day. Could this be a single stage Vs clear coat paint thing?
Anyone else notice big color variance in their 928s dependent on light?
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Tom in Austin

Pretty car! Yes, many Porsche colors change dramatically with the light ... Amazon green for one.

RKD in OKC

And it can be difficult to photograph the color you see too...

2002M3Drew

Yep my Ruby Red 911SC can look deep burgundy, to the color of a cheap merlot, to a brownish red, depending on light and level of cleanliness. My Amazon Green C2 looks blue 90% of the time to the point where I simply refer to it as the blue 911.

Bertrand Daoust

My cobalt blue can turn from a dark blue to a much lighter blue.
And with the sun at a specific angle, to blue with purple reflections.

928cs

Baltic blue can also change a lot, depending on light.

But Amazon green can really change a lot, from blue to green. Most of time, you will define it as blue.

Adk46

Caution - pedantic lecture: Human color perception is terrifically complicated. Unlike our ears, which record the entire spectrum of sound frequencies within their range, our eyes reduce the information to just three signals, each based on a sensitivity curve that may overlap the others (for the most common form of color blindness, the red and green curves overlap a lot).

Meanwhile, there can be a great deal of variation in the spectrum of illuminating light. Our perception system attempts to normalize those variations, so that a white thing is perceived as a white thing, despite wild variations in the spectrum of light that bounces off it.

Note that a white thing is a much different concept than white light.

(Our automatic white balance system does not work for photos, only real things. The depiction of a white thing in a photo requires that the area on the print must itself be a white thing.)

The final complication is that dyes and pigments can be designed to have absorption/reflectivity curves - jumpy curves - that confuse our simplified RGB system, sometimes intentionally. The paint system as a whole might also have curves that change with the angle of incidence (the "flop" effect).

(And for all you future brides, avoid a gown with brighteners. They convert UV light when outdoors or near windows to some sort of goofy white light, making the gown different from all the other white things in the photo. Your photographer will not happily fix this.)

whiteNSXs

All car colors look different under different lighting especially metallic colors.
Steve

decampos

Platinum Metallic has got to be the most ambiguous when it comes to lighting. It’s all colors of the (sh*ttier end of the) rainbow. Here’s the color as seen by various valet parking guys at my work: