They were and thank you. I'm still trying to hone in on having it take shots without adding any vibrance to the colors because pinks, some purples, and reds all come out not quite right even when I mess with them in Adobe Lightroom.
teddahlia Oct 19, 2022 12:36 PM PDT
Name: Ted Oregon We enjoy breeding new dahlias!
I have found that my cell phone pictures are harder to edit on my computer. The phone often sharpens them much more than what I like and I have had to learn the blur applications to tone it down a bit. It is easier to use the phone than the bigger camera and in general the quality of the shots are equal but it varies a lot as both can have good shots and bad shots. Have you used the magic erasure program yet? I watched my kid use it on my phone and it worked pretty good. Perhaps I will try it.
SteveM Oct 19, 2022 1:04 PM PDT
Name: Steve San Diego Commercial cut flower grower
edewitt wrote:They were and thank you. I'm still trying to hone in on having it take shots without adding any vibrance to the colors because pinks, some purples, and reds all come out not quite right even when I mess with them in Adobe Lightroom.
Are you shooting in ARW format?
Cosey Oct 19, 2022 1:16 PM PDT
Name: LeeAnn Zone 6b, Pennsylvania
The PNW might see BQ Blush like this all season, but us East side folks only experience the magic in the fall.
SteveM Oct 19, 2022 1:22 PM PDT
Name: Steve San Diego Commercial cut flower grower
That is a stunning color combination!
teddahlia Oct 19, 2022 2:05 PM PDT
Name: Ted Oregon We enjoy breeding new dahlias!
I do not shoot in RAW formats.
AndreaB Oct 19, 2022 6:40 PM PDT
Name: Andrea SE Michigan
Cosey wrote:
The PNW might see BQ Blush like this all season, but us East side folks only experience the magic in the fall.
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What does it do for the rest of the season? Is it mostly yellow?
Cosey Oct 19, 2022 8:45 PM PDT
Name: LeeAnn Zone 6b, Pennsylvania
AndreaB wrote:
Cosey-
What does it do for the rest of the season? Is it mostly yellow?
Same bloom with no picotee coloring.
edewitt Oct 20, 2022 9:14 PM PDT
Name: Eric DeWitt Mountainair, NM
Cosey wrote:
The PNW might see BQ Blush like this all season, but us East side folks only experience the magic in the fall.
I really love that Bloomquist Blush!
teddahlia wrote:I have found that my cell phone pictures are harder to edit on my computer. The phone often sharpens them much more than what I like and I have had to learn the blur applications to tone it down a bit. It is easier to use the phone than the bigger camera and in general the quality of the shots are equal but it varies a lot as both can have good shots and bad shots. Have you used the magic erasure program yet? I watched my kid use it on my phone and it worked pretty good. Perhaps I will try it.
I'm enjoying my Google Pixel 6 Pro for the most part. The lens correction/coloring software works pretty well for a majority of the shots. There's definitely been issues I've noticed mostly with the occasional landscape shot where it just looks like a blurred mess from overcorrection that made the picture looking worse. I still like to edit my phone photos in Lightroom but it's nice to have most of the same editing options on my phone. I've been shooting in jpg format but keeping a raw file too which usually looks terrible but occasionally is nicer than the jpg. The eraser program is pretty cool but I don't usually mess with that function.
SteveM wrote:
Are you shooting in ARW format?
Yeah that's what I work with on the Sony camera. I just watched a couple of Youtube videos on fixing my settings to try to get some more color accuracy. I'd rather mess up colors myself than have my camera do it by default.
Snow is predicted here on Monday, but I'm at least happy the extended season here accommodated my very late planting pretty much all of my plants have bloomed except for Gitt's Perfection which is about 7" tall.
Here's Chloe Janae - 1 which is my first bloom of it and most likely last for the year. It's such a bright fuchsia that it was a hard one to capture the true color. Show-N-Tell - 2 spit out one last large bloom. Hollyhill Court Jester - 3 was a delight to have in the garden. It just needed a bit more white petals but the shade of red was lovely. Here's an updated picture of what is most likely Hollyhill Red Warlock - 4 the bonus tuber I didn't know I had until it bloomed. I also managed to get a better color representation of Hillcrest Kismet - 5. April Dawn - 6 is more lavender than white when it's cooler out. That was always the opposite with my Gitt's Perfection which the pink disappeared and was pretty much white when it was dropped below 50 degrees. This shot I left unedited because I caught it just at the right time lighting-wise.
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SteveM Oct 20, 2022 9:48 PM PDT
Name: Steve San Diego Commercial cut flower grower
Very nice! You have a couple of wall hangers there. Thanks for sharing.
teddahlia Oct 21, 2022 10:16 AM PDT
Name: Ted Oregon We enjoy breeding new dahlias!
Going to rain today this PM. Went out and shot some pictures.
Its trying to rain here but has not gotten serious about it yet. I so can't wait for the rain to help put out the forest fires and clear the air!
We have turned off all the drip tape since it looks like once it starts we will not go back into drought conditions and I don't want my tubers soggy.
JessE Oct 29, 2022 6:43 PM PDT
Name: Jess Central NY
Cosey wrote:
The PNW might see BQ Blush like this all season, but us East side folks only experience the magic in the fall.
I just put two BQs in my wishlist after watching the PepperHarrow flower farm's video on YT from several days ago, where she reviewed her favorite flowers from this season. This was one of them, and I think I want BQ Tory P and BQ Compare after seeing them in her review. I didn't realize this was a picotee though.
teddahlia Nov 28, 2022 10:11 AM PDT
Name: Ted Oregon We enjoy breeding new dahlias!
This thread will be gone in a month or so. RPT did well in our garden this year.
blown_dry Nov 28, 2022 10:35 AM PDT
Name: Amanda CA Redwood Coast - Zone 9b DahliaAddict.com
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