[PHOTO] Re: TB: Puccini (Griff and Bill)

The iris behind Puccini is Repartee. (Smith 1968).  Here is a photo of Repartee from last year.  This year the form was fuller, but I failed to get a photo.  It has average growth for me.  I'm partial to those red colors.     
 
Concerning Puccini.................. yes, I sharpened it using Paint Shop Pro 7.   It has an option for sharpening photos. The sharpening effect doesn't affect colors, hue, tone, brightness, color saturation, etc.  It strictly only sharpens. Which is perfect - - so the natural colors etc. are not affected. The program has an "Unsharp Mask" feature too which actually gives a softer sharpness to a photo.  In this case - I probably should have used that option.
 
I don't recall that the undersides of Puccini being a different color.  It seems to me - - that it does not.  Oh - - - here is another photo of Puccini from a different angle.  It shows the undersides as white with the purple striping showing through.  Yes, this photo was sharpened also, AND has Repartee in the background too. :-) 
 
Puccini took a couple of years for it to adapt to this desert climate.  Now it is nicely adapted and grows very well.  I am so glad!!!    I used it in crosses this year because of it's markings.  Which reminds me - - it is almost time to plant those seeds.
 
Margie V.
Oro Valley, AZ.
Zone 8/9
IrisLady@comcast.net
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Sent: Friday, October 24, 2003 8:31 PM
Subject: Re: [iris-photos] TB: Puccini

In a message dated 10/24/2003 6:26:10 PM Central Daylight Time, jgcrump@erols.com writes:


Margie  --  What's the iris with the red falls behind PUCCINI?  --  Griff


Inquiring minds want to know.(g) Perhaps erroneously, I posed the same question mentally when first viewing the photo. Then I decided it was the underside of Puccini. In fact I intended asking questions about the photo earlier, got started doing something else, lapsed into attention deficit disorder, and forgot what I was doing.

So here are my questions about your very fine photo. It appears the image has been sharpened. If so was this done with camera settings or photo editing software? If the photo was tweaked with software, if you recall, which parameters, if any, affecting hue, tone, brightness, color, saturation, etc., were tweaked?

I am interested in both the photography mechanics and irises that have significantly different color layers on the underside of the falls. I recently acquired Puccini for its pattern. It has not bloomed yet here. I do not recall it having a different colored underside at the time I acquired it. That could well have been another incidence of ADD or it could be seein' too many irises that day. Does it?

Thinkin' some Puccini's backside looks some like a hard whupped baby's.

Smiles from a far too young to again be made grandparent,
Bill Burleson

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