I don't have studio conditions, but I also wonder how much impact monitors and even eyes have on this as well. I mean, for all the image may be perfect in terms of lighting, if your monitor displays it one way and someone else's another way, then they will look different too. And I know from experience that people see colour in different ways anyway.
It's one reason I find it so hard to ID brushes and combs. :/
Considering I'm on a Mac and have been since the early 2000s...and I was a graphic designer...it displays a LOT differently. Especially in terms of gamma. I had to have settings on my computer specially set up when working with my old art director...who could not get through his head that monitors were different and that there's no way in the world that monitor colors were going to match printed Pantone swatch books...for when he was viewing over my shoulder.
Here's an assortment of what I am working with. Spanish Snowflake (while the might be the orange-r variant is still ridiculously miscolored) And Galaxy (who somehow manages to have full body regrind, or so I am told, you can see the usual lighter-centered regrind spots under her mane) are definitely out there in terms of what's wrong with them. But Hollywood is really uniform and lovely.
As it came off my iphone camera (so of course neons are blown right out):
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loginThe photo has her looking more similar to Up Up and Away than she actually is IRL. Her mech is closer, and she is less raspberry.
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loginAnd finally an illustration of the struggles of trying to match a real-world pony to an RGB image, for laughs. From Ponyland Express:http://www.ponylandpress.com/specialoffer/otherponies.shtml So you can see just how different two layers of digital processing might be on your end!
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