Colour Orange continued - the artificial Colour Codes

You think colours are a simple subject? Not so! You will see why...

When you have to determine colours it becomes quite complicated after a while. The difficulty starts when you have to identify a colour that comes from natural sources. Perception is often undefinable and depends on adjacent colours.

You would not believe how differential people react to a colour and how they would define it. What is still orange and what is already red, or still yellow? Also it is difficult to find pure colour in natural environments - but let's start with the "easier" ones: the colour codes of the electronic medium - the computer or rather the codes of the HTML language.

The colour range for the orange (in HTML definition) merely consists only of 3 colours - the 4rth does not belong (or rather supported by description) officially to the oranges as you can see from the name:

And here it starts already. Depending on your monitor and its settings these colours will appear differently on your computer.

It is in fact a different hue although at first glance it seems to belong to the same range! But you can check this by looking at your monitor from different angles. Now you see why the determination of a colour is so difficult.

Here is a nice chart of the Basic Oranges:

Basic Oranges

Color	Hex	Decimal	Co#	Description
	FF9933	255,153,51	1	Pumpkin
	CC6600	204,102,0	2	Sienna / Orange - brown
	663300	102,51,0	3	Dark Chocolate Brown
	FF6600	255,102,0	4	Orange
	996600	153,102,0	5	Golden Brown
	FF9900	255,153,0	6	Light Orange
	CC9900	204,153,0	7	Mustard seed
	CC6633	204,102,51	8	Brick / Red-brown
	FF7C80	255,124,128	9	Pink
	FF6633	255,102,51	10	Tomato soup
	FFCC66	255,204,102	11	Light mustard
	FFCC99	255,204,153	12	"Flesh"

 (after http://www.toledo-bend.com/colorblind/OrangeChart.asp)

Now let us find the codes for the following images:

The colour codes are:

You will realize that - what we call orange - already has a different hue from the original pure HTML colour orange - clearly indicated by a different hex code.

In the image above we have 4 different hues of orange - indicated by hex code. The 5th colour, represented through #ee1100 apparently is no orange any more although one might identify this colour as an orange hue without knowing the hex code.

Would you have thought that the same orange hues are included in the images above?

You see - not a single image contains the pure colour code of orange - all images contain different hues of orange.


(all colour palettes have been created with the Color Palette Generator from DeGraeve.com)

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The Blog continued with the Colour Orange

I just decided to contine this blog. Colours are my life - without colours I will not be an artist. The posts may appear sporadically and I have to think about a guideline for myself but we will see what happens. I also spent so much time on this blog, collecting all those wonderful motifs and colours, that it would be a shame if I stopped sharing them.

I thank all my readers for their motivation and maybe you will find the one or other image you might like.
 
Starting with one from my balcony - the colour of the Clivia:  

Orange

I found a very strange psychological explanation for the colour Orange in a German description (translated and abbreviated):

"Orange symbolizes the unappealing, the sweet, aromatic, the refreshing, the cheap, the flashy, the extrovert, the trendy, the loud, closeness, fun, cheerful, sociability, pleasure, gluttony, energy, activity, excitement, warmth, desire.

Orange has always been an exotic colour in Europe although sunset and sunrise are orange. Orange has a cheap appeal because many objects in orange are plastic. There are no natural materials which are orange, therefore the colour orange sends the signal of being cheap. Through advertising campaigns and certain product design the image of the colour did not improve - on the contrary. People combine pushiness and swaggering with orange.

But the colour orange also has a positive character. It's the colour of the amusing, pleasure, sociability. Orange is a combination of light and warmth. Orange creates a pleasant atmospheric environment. It is not as dazzling as yellow and not as sultry as red. Orange is the colour of the fire etc."

What is your attitude towards orange?

Clivia Miniata (Amaryllidaceae),
Riemenblatt, Bush Lily 
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I don't know what to do...

This could be the last...


After so many months of trying to make this blog interesting and valuable I realize that it is obviously not worthwhile to really to be continued. I am probably not giving this up completely but apparently people have no real interest in blooms and blossoms, colours shown in intriguing environments. The amount of photography blogs running through the internet is simply too high even if the content of many blogs could be "neglected".

Well - simply looking at my stats I must say that all the work is not worthwhile to be continued if no-one likes to see it. I have so many tasks on my plate that I really need to set priorities and I decided to concentrate rather on my art and design tasks than wasting precious time for private pleasure only - - because pleasure it was, to collect all those photos and share them with one or two viewers.

Never mind....

The Variety of Surfaces

photography ©Petra Voegtle
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Pumpkin Colour Compositions

Mother Nature chose these compositions...

photography ©Petra Voegtle
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It's Pumpkin Time

I am going to flood you with colours - the colours of pumpkins. Let's start with the "common" sight of orange...

photography ©Petra Voegtle
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Colours of an Insect's Cloth

It looks like cloth, cloth made from tree bark fibers as it is still common in various remote areas of our world. But this has been made by an insect, tree wasps and it is the structure of their nest. Incredible colours and incredible pattern - simply beautiful. Photographed backlit...

photography ©Petra Voegtle
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