Dark foliage green vs evergreen?

[bansheekitty]

I'm planning to pick up a smaller, lighter tarp for backpacking, but I'm having trouble deciding between dark foliage and evergreen. Does anyone here own anything in either of these colors and can post pictures?

Thanks!

[cmc4free]

Evergreen is really nice.

[bansheekitty]

Ooh, that does look nice, thanks!

[cmc4free]

FYI, that's a stock 11' Cloudburst with Warbonnet's external poles. I like that tarp a lot, but it seems the only photos I have of it are in the yard of my townhome association when I slept out during a big overnight snowfall.

[OneClick]

I like the evergreen, but amazing how much it changes color with different weather/lighting. Sometimes it's plain green, sometimes almost a turquoise.

But in general...

[bansheekitty]

I like the evergreen, but amazing how much it changes color with different weather/lighting. Sometimes it's plain green, sometimes almost a turquoise.

But in general...

Wow, the evergreen does look different in different conditions! It looks olive in that picture! Is that the mountainfly or the thunderfly?

[OneClick]

Wow, the evergreen does look different in different conditions! It looks olive in that picture! Is that the mountainfly or the thunderfly?

Thunderfly. It's a great color that really blends into the woods in all 4 seasons.

Here's another shot

[cmc4free]

Thunderfly. It's a great color that really blends into the woods in all 4 seasons.

Here's another shot

Assuming our evergreen tarps are the same color (who knows if they're the same material and what effect that might have... or even lot to lot), I think this one looks like a truer representation of the actual color of the tarp than the other one with the red gravity filter in the frame.

Looks like a nice place to spend a night, too.

[Ozarks Walkabout]

I've been puzzled by the reproduction of the colors of tarps and hammocks and I did a little research. Unfortunately I've not found anything definitive, and I may be wrong, but it seems that UV light and the camera sensors don't play as nicely as they should. My olive green tarp almost always looks brown in pictures.

[cmc4free]

I like the evergreen, but amazing how much it changes color with different weather/lighting. Sometimes it's plain green, sometimes almost a turquoise.

But in general...

No dispute, as we all know from judging paint swatches in the hardware store vs. the living room.

Worth mentioning that in photos, some of that color shifting effect can be down to the white balance used by the camera when the photo is taken. When you see a photo (not like OneClick's) where the colors look grossly off, that's most likely the result of the wrong white balance setting or from using auto white balance when there's different color temperature light sources in the same photo (mixture of natural and flourescent, natural and incandescent, flourescent and incandescent, etc.) Also, auto white balance works by converting the "whitest" pixels in the photo to pure white, and color shifting every other pixel in the photo by the same amount. So if there's nothing white in the photo, sometimes auto white balance struggles to work as well as it does other times.