Re: CAT:: Color Pictures
- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] CAT:: Color Pictures
- From: C* M*
- Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 05:59:07 +1000
Walter
I have yet to find any film that actually renders a blue iris blue, not
violet. I don't use a digital camera as I can't get one to give me enough
resolution without having to download after every 2 shots. I use
professional slide film (as this gives better colour accuracy), scan, and do
a bit of colour adjustment on my computer to get the photo a close to
original colour as possible, but not to make it artifical. I do this because
I don't like people buying something that looks violet-purple in the photo
only to find it's blue when it flowers. While many blue irises have a touch
of violet in them eg High Waters many are straight blues eg Clear Day,
Scented Bubbles, Sea of Joy, Marine Lustre, Fair Dinkum.
Some one commented on photographing barely opened blooms. I find that I have
limited time for photographing (between work, bad weather and having the
gardens open on weekends) and that was how the bloom was when I took the
shot. Over a period of years I will get a collection of photos of acturate,
fully opened blooms, but sometimes we have to make do with what we have. I'm
doing my best to give as acurate picture of the iris as possible.
As a consumer of iris catalogues (as well as a writer of them) I get
frustrated with new releases which give no indication of bud
count, increase and general health. But I must admit I don't buy anything
that says "not a quick increaser" or similar, which may be why it's not very
often stated. I do like Schreiners reporting of the bud counts on their
releases.
Colleen Modra
South Australia
----- Original Message -----
From: wmoores <wmoores@watervalley.net>
To: <iris-talk@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2001 9:22 PM
Subject: [iris-talk] CAT:: Color Pictures
>
> > It is a shame so much money is spent on new introductions that have
their
> > flaws conceiled in the pictures.
> >
> > Patrick Orr
> > Phoenix, Zone 9
> > USA
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> What about 'airbrushed' pictures in catalogs? I know there is
> some 'fine-tuning' with color in catalogs, but I feel some blooms
> don't remotely look like the pictures, with the picture being more
> beautiful than the real bloom.
>
> Now we have computer enhancement of color pictures and have seen
> it demonstrated on iris-photos. I have had background 'noise' like a
> plant marker, another bloom or a brown leaf tip removed by computer
> technology, but no doctoring of the flowers as such. Some fine-
> tuning is obviously necessary.
>
> Walter Moores
> Enid Lake, MS USA 7/8
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