Kathryn - if you can use visual matching in the field, you may want to get the PANTONE CMYK color cards from any good art store or online. The cards are around $100. but give you chromatically arranged smooth transitions between almost 3000 colors (you can pull out the cards you need to take with you) and they are standard names used by graphic artists and printers internationally. So when you say the flower is PANTONE PMS 2715 the world knows exactly what you mean- as does graphics software such as photoshop. Leonard
On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 2:48 PM, Kathryn Theiss <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I am interested in quantifying color differences of flower petals in the > field. The genus I work on > ranges from white to pale lilac to dark purple and discrete color > divisions don't exist. I have access to > a benchtop spectrophotometer, but I can’t always get the flowers back to > the lab before they start to > wilt. I’d love to hear how other people have measured floral color in the > field and will put together a > list of responses when I get them! > > Cheers, > Kathryn > > Kathryn E. Theiss, Ph.D. > Post-doctoral Scholar > Biology Department > Willamette University > 900 State Street > Salem, OR 97301 > Office: Olin 116 > Phone: 503-370-6979 > Fax: 503-375-5425 > -- Leonard Pearlstine, PhD Landscape Ecologist Everglades National Park South Florida Natural Resources Center 950 N Krome Ave, Homestead, FL 33030 (305) 224-4228 office (305) 224-4147 fax (954) 608-3605 cell [email protected]
