真實世界的色彩

Real-World Hues Meet Their Pantone Partners in New Instagram Series

總部位於芝加哥的的攝影師保羅Octavious是尋寶顏色。

大約一個月，他一直在試圖尋找一個真實世界的比賽的所有100種顏色的PANTONE明信片一套。當他發現，他持有該卡，卡與他的iPhone的圖片，並上傳到Instagram的包括hashtag ＃thepantoneproject下。

Octavious，誰擁有設計背景，但現在背後的攝像頭，使他的生活，說顏色一直的東西，他的特別關注。

“我訓練我的眼睛，我知道顏色和色彩的力量，讓我感到某種方式，”他說。

潘通色卡，讓他使用的明信片的公司，可能發展的潘通匹配系統，這有助於規範色彩再現系統，並確保打印機，設計師和其他工作的顏色，有共同語言的人，可以創造共同的結果。Octavious買明信片，他在舊金山一家店使用，但它也可以在互聯網上訂購，並設有各種各樣的PANTONE托盤。

最簡單的顏色，以配合到目前為止一直是橙色和黃色。他說，這是可能是因為城市往往具有那些顏色 - 出租車，路牌，等等 - 也因為它的春天，有很多鮮花與同類色調。

對於更難的顏色，他給自己一點喘息的空間。如果它主要是比賽，他會運行它。一天，他拍攝的約翰·漢考克中心在芝加哥舉行明信片海盜黑。他不知道，如果它是一個完美的比賽，因為他站在幾百英尺遠的地方，但它看起來非常接近。

“我知道這可能不是海盜黑，但它是海盜黑我，”他說。

Octavious 411K Instagram的追隨者，因此該項目已經得到了很多的關注，並催生了貢獻者。現在，全國各地的人們都自己買套明信片和標記他們的照片，同包括hashtag。

這將是容易偽造整個項目在Photoshop中，但失敗點。到目前為止，Octavious只發現了12或13場比賽，他很喜歡，但是他說，他並不急於。明信片總是在他的背包，他的iPhone總是在他的口袋裡。

“當它發生，它發生，”他說。

Chicago-based photographer Paul Octavious is on a scavenger hunt for color.

For about a month now, he’s been trying to find a real-world match for all the 100 colors from thePantone postcard set. When he finds one, he holds the card up, snaps a picture with his iPhone and uploads it to Instagram under the hashtag #thepantoneproject.

Octavious, who has a background in design, but now makes his living behind the camera, says color has always been something he’s paid particularly close attention to.

“I’ve trained my eye for color and I know the power of color to make me feel a certain way,” he says.

Pantone, the company that makes the postcards he’s using, is probably best known for the development of the Pantone Matching System, which helped standardize the color reproduction system and ensures printers, designers and other people working with color have a common language and can create common results. Octavious bought the postcard set he’s using at a shop in San Francisco, but it can also be ordered on the Internet and features a wide variety of the Pantone pallet.

The easiest colors to match so far have been the oranges and yellows. He says that’s probably because cities often features those colors — taxis, street signs, etc. — and also because it’s spring and there are a lot of flowers with similar shades.

For the harder colors he’s given himself a little breathing room. If it’s mostly a match he’ll run with it. The other day he shot the John Hancock Center in Chicago and held up the postcard for Pirate Black. He had no idea if it was a perfect match because he was standing hundreds of feet away, but it looked pretty close.

“I know that it’s probably not Pirate Black, but it’s Pirate Black to me,” he says.

Octavious has 411K followers on Instagram so the project has gotten a lot of attention and spawned contributors. People around the country are now buying their own postcard sets and tagging their photos with the same hashtag.

It would be easy to fake the whole project in Photoshop, but that defeats the point. So far, Octavious has only found 12 or 13 matches he likes but says he’s in no rush. The postcards are always in his backpack and his iPhone is always in his pocket.

“When it happens, it happens,” he says.