It's not a trick it is your perception inferring the color based on the context of the surrounding colors. For instance I see gold as does one of my daughters. The other daughter and wife see black. If however I zoom in on my cell phone to the large portion of the dress that I see as gold with only that filling the display on the phone and show it to my wife she sees gold. I them zoom back out on the screen to the original magnification she then sees black. Those people who see black are inferring that as a black color based on the surrounding colors. When focused on just that color without the context of the other colors they perceive it as gold.
But that's just that one specific section of the dress at the top - which is the only part of the dress I can see as bronze/gold (and only if I ignore all the other trim on the dress). Take a similar sample toward the bottom.Originally posted by Upstream:
The picture is very poorly exposed, so your eyes are trying to compensate for the poor exposure by using contextual clues to infer what the colors should be. (The colors could also look different based on your screen settings, which explains why people looking at different screens may see different colors, but doesn't explain why people looking at the same screen infer different colors.)
If you crop out all the contextual clues, it is easier to look at just the colors as rendered in the photo, without your eyes trying to correct for the poor exposure.
I see brown and blue.
