I’ve hesitated to post this. This is a flower that I simply am not able to photograph to my satisfaction. The color in photos has always looked blotchy or even worse. It is NOT so in person. It is not mosaic virus. It is most beautiful in person and seems to really have impressed the judges. This was again up for Rose Ribbon and Gold Ribbon in last weeks show.
V93-39-42 is a cross of: Altun Ha x Swedish Fjord. I color coded it as 2Y-Y(v) but may fit there as uneasily as it would if color coded 2W-W. The cross is from “strong”, highly contrasted, reverse bicolor breeding. The color of this particular Selection is not highly contrasted but soft and subtle. Elegant and understated. Reminds me of antique ivory with a yellowish patina of age. Ends a milky white coloration with translucent, pearl like undertones. Notable for consistently giving an unusually high percentage of exquisite show flowers. Based on performance here, I believe this will be a flower that you all will see more of as time goes by.
A first ever release of a bulb will be donated to the A. D. S. bulb auction in Baltimore. My guess would be that those that have seen it will bid this up quickly.
Steve
Do any of our more experienced photographers have an explanation for why some flowers appear as blotchy in photos, but not in person? I also have a flower that shows up blotchy in photos.
Colleen in NE Calif.
I don’t know about blotchiness, but I do know about a problem called “banding” in digital photography.
Most digital photos represent color using the range 0 to 255 for each of red, blue, and green. White has high values of all three colors. Yellow has high values of red and green and a low value for blue. If you have a very subtle gradation, the available numerical values are too coarse to represent the desired value. They have to take a step up or down that sometimes can be seen as bands or slightly different colors. For most subjects, this is not noticeable.
The most common subject where banding can occur is blue sky. The sky can change subtly from one point to another, and everyone knows there are no bands in the sky; that’s why they notice it in a digital photo. By editing a photo to change its brightness or contrast, you can make banding worse. Even without editing, you can make banding appear worse by having your computer monitor set too bright; this accentuates or exaggerates the difference between two adjacent color values.
Kirby Fong
Kirby,
You always amaze me at how smart you are about this kind of problem. I have seen banding and never knew why it occurred. Thanks for the explanation.
Donna