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OT-Cataract surgery; strange result
Phil Hawkins, Photographer
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Fresno | ca | usa | Posted: 9:28 PM on 03.02.10 |
->> For those of you pondering cataract surgery, this is submitted for your consideration.
I just had mine this morning, and bizarre result; it was done on my left eye and now my left eye has a different white balance than the right. I have a decided blue cast on the left... The contrast is higher and, well, it just feels like my left eye was run through Photoshop. Word is things will settle down, but so far it's pretty weird.
Anyone else have that result? |
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Thomas E. Witte, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Cincinnati | OH | USA | Posted: 9:46 PM on 03.02.10 |
->> I have the same problem but it's naturally occuring. According to my eye doctor, it's not uncommon, but only photographers, film makers and "visual" people really notice it.
Since you're new to the club, try color correcting the same image, but close one eye both times. Close the image before opening the opposite eye and balancing the photo, then when finished open both photos (and eyes) to see the difference.
Post for us too please. |
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Eric Canha, Photographer
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Brockton | MA | United States | Posted: 9:56 PM on 03.02.10 |
->> Ditto I found out 3 years ago that one eye was going blind to the blue/green spectrum. I was shooting wrestling and switched eyes and realized that things were much warmer in tone. Got my ass into the doctor's chair like 2 days later. Like Thomas, I too was told that as we age our corneas yellow and filter parts of the spectrum.
I don't notice it when I'm using both eyes just when I'm shooting and switching sides. |
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Tom Story, Photographer
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Tempe | AZ | USA | Posted: 9:56 PM on 03.02.10 |
->> I had the same situation. The fluid in the eye turns more yellow with age, thus a "warmer" color balance. When the cataract is repaired, like mine were with implants, the repaired eye is "colder". But sharper and constrastier.
My brain sorted it out after a bit and I lived with it for the 6 months until I had my other eye done.
First time without contacts since high school and no glasses needed either. I wore them since I was in second grade. |
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Israel Shirk, Photographer, Assistant
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Boise | ID | US | Posted: 10:26 PM on 03.02.10 |
->> My left eye is cooler, right is warmer.
That sounds like it might just be in part from scar tissue or minimal bleeding though, I had something similar when I scratched my cornea a few months ago but it's back to normal now. |
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Tom Ewart, Photographer
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Bentonville | AR | USA | Posted: 10:49 PM on 03.02.10 |
| ->> Had both eyes done a week apart two weeks ago. And yes, there was a Tungsten cast to the eye that wasn't done, but I kind of saw the color shift before surgery with a test my doc while evaluating me before surgery. My bionic transformation is complete, I had Lasik done about 7 years ago. The other weird thing was that my unoperated on eye saw much better once the first eye was done. Really looking for everything to settle down, it not bad just a little swelling from time to time throws things a little out of focus now and then. I was actually seeing 20/20 the same day of the surgery on one of the eyes--I won the best vision after surgery prize that day. |
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Charles Baus, Photographer
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Palm Springs, Los Angeles | CA | USA | Posted: 11:20 PM on 03.02.10 |
->> Hey Phil,
The reason why you have a blue cast to everything now is that a cataract typically gives you a yellow cast to everything. Now that the cataract is gone, it will take awhile for your brain to adjust.
BTW, that is why older ladies tend to have blue hair.....they are compensating for their yellow cataracts. |
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Jim Colburn, Photo Editor, Photographer
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McAllen | TX | USA | Posted: 11:04 AM on 03.03.10 |
->> "...and now my left eye has a different white balance than the right...'
I've noticed a different color balance in my eyes for as long as I can remember, at least since my teens. Not a lot, but noticeable when I concentrate on discerning the difference. |
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