Post by andreas on May 2, 2009 12:25:20 GMT -5
Hi folks,
now that I know the negative scanner of my local photo shop is s**t I´ll stop photographing as long as I don´t own an appropriate digital camera! The saleswoman has confessed me there´s always a greenish background tone in the scans! I have no chance to get that completely away with Adobe Photoshop without causing a new colour shift into yellow or magenta!
I have bought a last film to document my first flowers of Utricularia asplundii during the next couple of weeks.
Particularly getting good pictures of my Droserae and their flowers is a real hassle with my analogue equipment! As Drosera flowers mostly have pure white or light purple petals I always receive much too bright colours on the scans! Or my negatives are too much underexposed and the whole pic is nothing but crap!
Well, at least other objects such as Nepenthes pitchers or the flower of Darlingtonia can be shot in better quality.
Here we go:
A nice rosette of Drosera mannii
Flowers of Drosera pulchella 'salmon flower' with a single flower of D. ericksoniae x pulchella
Drosera spilos (much too bright colour of the petals!!! )
Drosera roraimae Gran Sabana
I have now evidence that my plants produce seeds in some of their seed capsules without being pollinated! I do have pollinated the shown flowers after the photo session, but also other flowers have produced some seeds. I was observing the first flowers of this inflorescence during their short period of being open. No insect entered the flower...unless the pollinator is so tiny you can´t detect it without a magnifier!
Leaves of D. roraimae
Still D. roraimae
The two rosettes are almost 6 cm in diametre each. These are former babies of our popular Daniel O. ;D
Drosera neocaledonica
On this magnification you can already spot the grain of the film (Fuji Superia 200).
Like my older pics of the D. whittakeri ssp. whittakeri flower this pic illustrates again the problem with the greenish colour shift. Filter more cyan out and the shift "jumps" into magenta or yellow!
Same flower in backlight
FAT tubers of D. whittakeri!
D. whittakeri ssp. aberrans on the left side (tuber shoots again only after four weeks of dormancy)
- D. whittakeri ssp. whittakeri Onkaparinga River on the right.
My first intermediate pitcher of Nepenthes x hookeriana. You may spot that this variation of N. x hookeriana even is a 'Tricolor'! ;D
Darlingtonia californica
Closer!
Thank you very much for your attention!
Yours sincerely,
Andreas Eils
Edit: Oops...I´ve forgotten one pic....
The beautiful flower of Drosera silvicola. Well, there´ll be more chances to make pics of this species as it has just begin to flower. I have no clue why there are so many tiny holes on this pic...
now that I know the negative scanner of my local photo shop is s**t I´ll stop photographing as long as I don´t own an appropriate digital camera! The saleswoman has confessed me there´s always a greenish background tone in the scans! I have no chance to get that completely away with Adobe Photoshop without causing a new colour shift into yellow or magenta!
I have bought a last film to document my first flowers of Utricularia asplundii during the next couple of weeks.
Particularly getting good pictures of my Droserae and their flowers is a real hassle with my analogue equipment! As Drosera flowers mostly have pure white or light purple petals I always receive much too bright colours on the scans! Or my negatives are too much underexposed and the whole pic is nothing but crap!
Well, at least other objects such as Nepenthes pitchers or the flower of Darlingtonia can be shot in better quality.
Here we go:
A nice rosette of Drosera mannii
Flowers of Drosera pulchella 'salmon flower' with a single flower of D. ericksoniae x pulchella
Drosera spilos (much too bright colour of the petals!!!
) Drosera roraimae Gran Sabana
I have now evidence that my plants produce seeds in some of their seed capsules without being pollinated! I do have pollinated the shown flowers after the photo session, but also other flowers have produced some seeds. I was observing the first flowers of this inflorescence during their short period of being open. No insect entered the flower...unless the pollinator is so tiny you can´t detect it without a magnifier!
Leaves of D. roraimae
Still D. roraimae
The two rosettes are almost 6 cm in diametre each. These are former babies of our popular Daniel O. ;D
Drosera neocaledonica
On this magnification you can already spot the grain of the film (Fuji Superia 200).
Like my older pics of the D. whittakeri ssp. whittakeri flower this pic illustrates again the problem with the greenish colour shift. Filter more cyan out and the shift "jumps" into magenta or yellow!
Same flower in backlight
FAT tubers of D. whittakeri!
D. whittakeri ssp. aberrans on the left side (tuber shoots again only after four weeks of dormancy)
- D. whittakeri ssp. whittakeri Onkaparinga River on the right. My first intermediate pitcher of Nepenthes x hookeriana. You may spot that this variation of N. x hookeriana even is a 'Tricolor'! ;D
Darlingtonia californica
Closer!
Thank you very much for your attention!
Yours sincerely,
Andreas Eils
Edit: Oops...I´ve forgotten one pic....
The beautiful flower of Drosera silvicola. Well, there´ll be more chances to make pics of this species as it has just begin to flower. I have no clue why there are so many tiny holes on this pic...
