Magenta Aint A Colour. As pretentious photographers we will say anything to avoid saying the word purple and choose to use the word magenta so as to appear sophisticated. Similarly we never say “out of focus” when we can say “a little soft”. This clearly speaks to our deepest insecurities. According to the link above the colour magenta doesn’t exist! It’s a construct of our mind to bridge the gap between red and violet because magenta doesn’t have a wavelength assigned to it.
So…if it doesn’t exist does that mean that photographers are not pretentious after all?
Thanks to The British Journal of Photography for bringing this up.
