For those of you that give out fresh bouquets to some one every day, you need fresh ideas. You can go crazy with this mood lighting. Change the flower. Change the bottom filling.
vikingcraftsman Sep 16, 2017 3:14 PM PDT
No one can have just one.
mandolls Sep 17, 2017 7:32 AM PDT
Name: Geof WI
I have never seen ants so interested in dahlias!. They are not on any other plant, but they are all over Fancy Pants.
anniecan Sep 17, 2017 3:50 PM PDT
Name: Annie Luck Apex, North Carolina BE THE CHANGE YOU WANT TO SEE IN TH
Viking, I think I'll try the art glass in the bottom, but I wouldn't give it to someone in case it didn't come back home to me!
DillyDahlia Sep 18, 2017 9:04 AM PDT
Name: Tina NY Zone 5b/6a Flower Power!
Zingaro has softer colors as the season progresses.
teddahlia Sep 22, 2017 9:24 AM PDT
Name: Ted Oregon We enjoy breeding new dahlias!
I took this about 12 years ago with my first "good" digital camera. Purely Purple was not all that purple.
Benny101 Sep 23, 2017 2:21 AM PDT
Greenville MI - zone 5b
My IPhone camera has a hard time capturing some shades of orange , Bloomquist Carol seems too orange for a proper photo but is sure is pretty
DillyDahlia Sep 23, 2017 12:32 PM PDT
Name: Tina NY Zone 5b/6a Flower Power!
wow!
vikingcraftsman Sep 24, 2017 11:33 AM PDT
Visited the local Pumpkin Patch today. Got a couple of pumpkins to decorate for Halloween.
teddahlia Jul 30, 2018 10:59 AM PDT
Name: Ted Oregon We enjoy breeding new dahlias!
This picture of a 2017 seedling was taken a couple of stops underexposed. It is difficult to get a picture back to perfect exposure and after lots of adjustments, this is the best I could do. I liked the picture because the focus was so good. I used the aperture priority setting at 5.6 and the camera selected 1/80th of second shutter speed. I am lucky the focus was good at that shutter speed.
Same variety, different flower and the camera was set to automatic.The camera selected an aperture of 2.8 and the same shutter speed of 1/80. The highlights are overexposed and the colors are off. The first picture is more like the color of the flower.
teddahlia Aug 5, 2018 12:25 PM PDT
Name: Ted Oregon We enjoy breeding new dahlias!
Hard to improve on the original.(Bottom) Seedling.
teddahlia Aug 13, 2018 2:30 PM PDT
Name: Ted Oregon We enjoy breeding new dahlias!
This flower is a nice pure smooth, not blotchy orange but as you can see, the photo has the color intensified.
I find so many dahlia photos that need to be shifted to the yellow side of the tints.
teddahlia Aug 13, 2018 6:03 PM PDT
Name: Ted Oregon We enjoy breeding new dahlias!
This picture was lacking yellow pigment. The red and green have not been changed and the yellow blue continuum was pushed to the yellow side quite a bit.
Good eye!
DillyDahlia Aug 14, 2018 9:16 AM PDT
Name: Tina NY Zone 5b/6a Flower Power!
I am still struggling with taking accurate pics of the deep burgundy flowers like Diva. I had a Jesse G bloom that was spectacular, but could not get anything except a red color to show up in my iphone photos. Wish I had time to explore using photoshop to do color corrections.
teddahlia Aug 14, 2018 10:11 AM PDT
Name: Ted Oregon We enjoy breeding new dahlias!
The inability of cameras to correctly show purple flowers is a problem faced by all photographers including professionals. Our eyes have more available colors than what can be shown on a computer monitor(or cell phone screen). They leave out many of the purple colors and substitute dark reds. The camera is partially at fault too as they calibrate the output to show on the monitor even though there may be more purple in the picture taken by the sensor. Photoshop can improve the picture but it still will not be very good.
One can be fooled by the light during the early evening when there is lots of blue in the light falling on the flowers. I swore I had a very deep purple seedling and took a picture of it that of course turned out to be dark red. I went out in the middle of the next day and looked at the flower expecting to see a nice deep purple flower. In the normal light of the mid day the flower was dark red and there was no purple. The purple color I had seen was caused by the blue light in the early evening.
Now lets go one level deeper into this paradox. Some red flowers always look red in the early evening while other red flowers look purple. Something is going on here. These fake purple flowers must have a pigment that reflects some of the blue light back to our eyes while the other reds do not.
Here is the flower that looked purple in the early evening. The color cards are used to correct colors in processing the picture. If you hold them up as you take your picture and you are using an automatic setting on your camera or cell phone, the camera will use the white card to correct the color as it saves the file. If you have camera that shoots RAW the camera will ignore the white card and you have to do the adjustment in post processing. I do not use RAW very much but professionals do.
abecedarian Aug 14, 2018 2:12 PM PDT
Name: Pati KS
Same flower, camera/settings taken just minutes apart on a cloudy day. The flower really is as orange as the second picture shows BUT you loose the pink that's visible to the naked eye (first picture) and the center is a deep purple/maroon which neither picture captures.I just slit some white paper and put it behind the flower - I want the seeds!
teddahlia Aug 16, 2018 8:09 PM PDT
Name: Ted Oregon We enjoy breeding new dahlias!
Some people like to take these shots where the background is blurry and the flower is in focus. You need a steady hand or a tripod to get them clear as you need to be several feet away from the flower and then use the telephoto lens magnify the flower. Flower is HH Hotshot.
teddahlia Aug 17, 2018 1:52 PM PDT
Name: Ted Oregon We enjoy breeding new dahlias!
Poster-flyer I put together for our show. The flower is going to the trial gardens next year. It is a straight cactus and has an excellent record in seedling competitions where it has won best seedling several times.
For those of you that give out fresh bouquets to some one every day, you need fresh ideas. You can go crazy with this mood lighting. Change the flower. Change the bottom filling.
No one can have just one.
Visited the local Pumpkin Patch today. Got a couple of pumpkins to decorate for Halloween.
