(Palm?) stump with black shelf fungi.

[full_metal_ox]

Taken 4 March 2025 at 16:42 Eastern Standard Time, in the alley behind my apartment complex in full daylight. The adjacent utility pole (a sliver of the line is visible in the upper left corner) is probably the reason the tree was felled.



This one is a study in complex crunchy textures and value and hue variations of grey and gray. (Though extremely muted, it’s not achromatic, being mottled with the faintest tinges of yellow, brown, and green:

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Wow, that's epic information

[jesse_the_k]

Thanks for this carefully composed answer.

I'm sorry to admit, this raises another question: what can one do with that knowledge? Seeing the palette did help provide insight into what makes the photo gratifying: monochromatic at first glance yet harboring a subtle panoply of shades.

The two formats neither of us use -- AVO and ASE -- are inputs to full-color image/design software. I guess if I was tasked with making a point-of-purchase display for my palm wine cooler drinks, I might use the palette from your great pic as a starting point.

Do you use the summary info that iPalette provides as an input to another process?

Re: Wow, that's epic information

[full_metal_ox]

Do you use the summary info that iPalette provides as an input to another process?

For a number of processes; color happens to be a lifelong Special Interest™ of mine—-from occult tables of correspondences to my own synaesthetic associations to Johannes Itten’s ruminations on the character of color to 80’s seasonal color typing—-and I enjoy deducing and perusing color schemes for their own sake. (I didn’t do a palette for the iguana because my phone camera didn’t capture the full vibrance of his color, even after applying a saturation filter, nor the complexity of his patterning at the fairly low resolution I achieved. Note furthermore that in the blazing overhead tropical midday sunlight, I can barely see what I’m doing.)

One thing you can use colorpicking for is personal style choices, by running a picture of yourself through the process to determine what colors you’re made of, and therefore why one brown or navy or pink looks borrowed and another mysteriously makes sense of your hair and eyes and skin tone. (I don’t let my likeness or government name anywhere near my blogging platforms, but I was surprised to discover the level of gray and green in not only my hair and eyes but my skin.)

Using a palette of muted grays and greens would further a relaxing context for your palm wine coolers, in shaded rather than air-conditioned cool; if you wanted to present them as a vivacious party beverage, you’d probably want to crank up the saturation to lime and chartreuse, and throw in some hibiscus red and Horny Iguana Orange.

(So why didn’t I do a palette for the iguana? Because my phone camera didn’t capture the full vibrance of his color, even after applying a saturation filter, nor the complexity of his patterning at the fairly low resolution I achieved. Note furthermore that in the blazing overhead tropical midday sunlight, I can barely see what the expletive deleted I’m doing.)

Re: Wow, that's epic information

[jesse_the_k]

Thanks for introducing me to Johannes Itten -- this PDF offers the basic outline of his seven-point color theory.. It's a very useful framework.