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Thanks, I like it too H. transsilvanica 'Schwanensee'
good show, lori--i like the transylvannica especially--like the colour and shape, though nobilis is nice too; i guess because blues are much less common here than violets (i mean as general flower colours) the less violet shades catch my eye first..
Quote from: cohan on April 25, 2010, 07:12:33 AMgood show, lori--i like the transylvannica especially--like the colour and shape, though nobilis is nice too; i guess because blues are much less common here than violets (i mean as general flower colours) the less violet shades catch my eye first..Cohan, if only I could capture the colour accurately (dang!), you'd see that that form of C. nobilis is nothing like the colour of any of our native plants - it's really most unusual and beautiful! Given my rudimentary photography skills, I guess you'll just have to see it some day.
Yes, we discovered the problem that cameras have with the blue spectrum (something to do with the visible spectrum and... ?) first with blue-flowered tropical water lilies. A solution, apparently, is to use a filter (though that is beyond my abilities and inclination)... though you can tell when a filter has been used as everything turns blue, including the yellow stamens on the water lilies. It sort of helps to reduce the exposure, though I try not to fiddle too much with photos.
In the bad old days of film, most films were notorious for rendering blue flowers as purple, and rendering all red as bright undifferentiated fire-engine red. Kodak published a formula for the filter pack you needed to use to get the blue flowers rendered properly, but it involved so many filters that it dimmed things by a full three stops (iirc), so you had to take much longer exposures. It was not a practical solution! If it had been, I'd have all the filters needed.
If you remove the filter, your camera will take infrared pictures in the dark and also see through some kinds of garments