Name: Annie Luck Apex, North Carolina BE THE CHANGE YOU WANT TO SEE IN TH
Nice! I guess you didn't use an Iphone for that.
DillyDahlia Aug 19, 2017 7:13 PM PDT
Name: Tina NY Zone 5b/6a Flower Power!
anniecan wrote:Nice! I guess you didn't use an Iphone for that.
I actually used my small iphone 6se for the photo. I "zoomed in" by swiping my fingers across the screen to enlarge it and then I took a screenshot to capture the image. I used an iphone app called Over, to add the text.
I've been complaining to my hubby that my iphone pics have been coming out a bit blurry...turns out that my phone lens was dirty from being out in the garden all the time! LOL
Tina, I resonate with that, LOL...ITs one of the few things I can use my iPhone for since I don't get good reception where I live. (But I also use it for card sales at the Market.) I love that I can use it then find my pics easily on the Cloud without messing with my photocard and downloading on my computer.
DillyDahlia Aug 20, 2017 10:27 AM PDT
Name: Tina NY Zone 5b/6a Flower Power!
I forgot all about my Square device for my iphone. Glad you reminded me about credit card sales Noni. Here is are before and after photos i just took of Sky Angel.
Sky Angel was one of the first I grew here on this property after we moved here in 2000! I had forgotten about it...
DillyDahlia Sep 2, 2017 8:46 AM PDT
Name: Tina NY Zone 5b/6a Flower Power!
Some fun artsy images...
teddahlia Sep 2, 2017 9:43 AM PDT
Name: Ted Oregon We enjoy breeding new dahlias!
Love the first one. The flowers look as though they were made of porcelain.
Margaret was china painting an 8 x 10 plaque of a dahlia about 10 years ago. The flower had lots of yellow in it and she was doing the painting at a seminar where a teacher works with about
ten students at a time. China painting involves numerous firings between layers of pigment. You may fire it as many as 10 times or more over the course of two or three weeks. Each layer of pigment has to be done in a specific order and most importantly some of the pigment colors are not able to be mixed as they chemically destroy all color. You can see where this is going. The teacher grabbed the wrong color and told Margaret to lay it on thick. The plaque was about 70% finished at that point and she probably had about 20 hours into it. Margaret quit the class after that. She has never attempted to paint another dahlia flower and actually quit china painting until a month or so ago.
DillyDahlia Sep 2, 2017 7:38 PM PDT
Name: Tina NY Zone 5b/6a Flower Power!
I hope Margaret has a much better experience this time around. I would love to see pictures of her work as she completes pieces. I am not familiar with this type of china painting, only aware of traditional ceramic glazes and firing. Pics would be great!
teddahlia Sep 2, 2017 8:04 PM PDT
Name: Ted Oregon We enjoy breeding new dahlias!
If she ever paints a dahlia I will share. All her completed pieces are at least 10 years old now and knowing Margaret I would be in the outhouse if I shared pictures. The hobby was very popular from about 1900 to about 1915 or so and since then only a handful of die hards still do it. KPM plaques from the 1800s are the ultimate china painting and some modern artists have worked out how they painted them . They were mostly portraits and casual artists have extreme difficulty painting portraits even though we know the materials and methods they used. Margaret did a few portraits before she quit and now that she is painting again, she just finished a large vase with a both a Victorian woman and flowers on it. Enough on china painting. Margaret does not like painting dahlias due to her prior disaster and has no plans to do any at this time. It would be an extremely difficult project because dahlias are so brightly colored and as I said some of the pigments needed to capture them are difficult to apply successfully. By the way, the pigments for dark pink and some other related colors contain gold and are very, very expensive.
anniecan Sep 3, 2017 11:55 AM PDT
Name: Annie Luck Apex, North Carolina BE THE CHANGE YOU WANT TO SEE IN TH
Yes, I love that first photo! How did you do that?
vikingcraftsman Sep 3, 2017 5:18 PM PDT
Having some fun with my light box set up. Still have to do better with the white light over the flower.
teddahlia Sep 3, 2017 5:50 PM PDT
Name: Ted Oregon We enjoy breeding new dahlias!
There are lots of tools in photo programs to artistically enhance photos. Some say they can change a good good picture into something better but most of the changes look artificial. This one is called "dry brush".
vikingcraftsman Sep 3, 2017 7:04 PM PDT
Another color light. The tyrick is to get the lighting in the right position so you don't cause shadows. Still learning.
teddahlia Sep 3, 2017 7:29 PM PDT
Name: Ted Oregon We enjoy breeding new dahlias!
Professional photographers carefully use directional light to enhance the contrast at the edges of the florets. White flowers are notoriously difficult to picture. Your picture uses that technique to some extent.
Having some fun with my light box set up. Still have to do better with the white light over the flower.
Another color light. The tyrick is to get the lighting in the right position so you don't cause shadows. Still learning.
Here is center court with an orange back ground.
