gentoo penguins

[moyamick]

i am still looking to find out the colour of gentoo penquins a picture is not giving a true colour.

[divegirl]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentoo_Penguin

Still prefer Ratter's one though!!!!

Lisa x

[archiestaffy]

The Gentoo Penguin rookery on Carcass island was located a fair distance from the beach. Gentoo Penguins have orange beaks and orange feet.

[CrazyWolfman]

Obviously there's going to be variation between individuals as well as between photos so I wouldn't worry about it too much. If you want something more accurate you could try using the colour-picker pipette thingy on a drawing program then find out the RGB colour components. I'll have a look for a program which might put a name to the colour but you'll need to find a well lit, good photo as there's not really any way of doing that straight from the penguin's foot.

Just wondering, why do you want to know the colour of a Gentoo Penguin's foot? Knowing that might make it easier to give you an answer.

[CrazyWolfman]

Try this one to put a name to the RGB thing.
http://web.njit.edu/~kevin/rgb.txt.html

[CrazyWolfman]

I hope that's helpful, but bear in mind that even if you were looking directly at a real penguin's foot the variation of light levels at that time would deny you ever getting an accurate colour. The only way I can think of doing it would be to get a penguin's foot, chemically remove the coloured pigment and run that, in a concentration identical to when it was still in the foot, through a colourimeter. But the penguin probably wouldn't appreciate that.

[gen2]

My avatar shows the only true colours of a gentoo

[gen2]

And why the interst in my feet? Does CrazyWolfman have a foot fetish?

[CrazyWolfman]

Feet are very interesting things. Leave me alone...