H. Forbidden Fantasy taken in the morning light
- H. Forbidden Fantasy several days later in the afternoon sunlight
A couple of days ago, I wrote up this blog, but I must have forgotten to publish and save it. So I’m giving it one more try.
If you have ever seen a daylily in a catalog and said I have got to buy it. You ordered it, planted it, took care of it, and saw it blooming only to realize it wasn’t the color you were expecting. Well this is one of the reasons that can happen.
Earlier this week I had some daylilies blooming, and I started taking digital photos of them. One of the cultivars – Forbidden Fantasy – had blooms on a couple of days when I was taking photos. As you can tell the coloring in the photos are pretty different. Now I was using the same camera; however, the first one was taken in the morning and the second one was taken in the afternoon sometime.
Now I don’t alter any of the colors on my photos, and I take all of my photos outside. I know from my own experience that sunshine will give you one type of color versus taking pictures on a cloudy day will give a slightly different color in your flowers and pictures. One of the reasons I don’t alter or “correct” the colors of my photos, is that we are outside looking at our flowers – not necessarily inside. Our gardens also change throughout the growing season as the light changes. I want them to truely be garden photos so you can see what you are getting. I know that true photographers will say that I should be doing different things to my flowers and photos to make the flowers really stand out, but I am just a gardener who likes to take pictures of flowers and I want them to remind me of what I had in my own garden – or what I saw in someone elses garden. So you will always know my photos, they are not staged and they may have little critters on them, and a petal may be bent – but that is what they were like on that day in the garden. Perhaps I’ll get to a point where I want to do more things with my photos, but for right now I like them they way they are, and I like that my flowers have slightly different colors from day to day.