evelyninthegarden said: To me, this is Blue-Violet.
And that's what's so frustrating, because I can NEVER seem to capture anything in the blue family very accurately.
I have the same trouble when photographing Texas bluebonnets. The older flowers or those that have been pollinated by bees have a red signal patch, whereas fresh flowers have a white signal. The older flowers with red or red-violet patches tend to make the bonnets look more purple even in the field, but when you really get up on them, you can see that they are indeed very blue. Pics only make it worse, it seems. That 'Shipshape' is more blue in person than it shows here on my screen, which is why I made the opening "disclaimer". Plus, I do believe that we all perceive colors a little differently from person to person. Indeed, to your eye it may look more "violet-ish", while to the friend who gave me 'Shipshape', it may appear more blue, and to me, it may fall somewhere in between. Then there are the differences in how our monitors render colors. On my desktop, many of these other "blue" irises look very purple, as in royal purple fit for a king, but on the laptop, they look different, and on my phone, they do look more blue. Even lighting spectrum can make colors appear different... pure white light, vs. light with a warmer color from yellow or red wavelengths, vs. cooler light with more blue wavelengths, all of that changes how we might perceive a color. And if someone has an early cataract, it can make colors appear a bit dull which you may never even notice until you eventually have cataract surgery and all of a sudden... it's like going from "regular TV" to Hi-Def.
Many factors go into how we perceive color. It's really fascinating stuff... sorry about all that. I married an electrical engineer and this is a big part of his type of work, LOL! 😁
