I like your twist on the usual Bloom Day posts. They remind me of painted still lifes.
These are just beautiful images! I love the dramatic lighting and the full, rich color of the blooms. I keep going back and forth on digital photography. I have an old, beloved Nikon FE2 and occasionally scan but use a Canon Elph for my blog. I’m planning to get a digital SLR this summer as I think the technology is just about there.
Les:
Scans have one big advantage: You can’t see all the weeds.
Sarah:
These scans are made on a cheap hand-me-down scanner. I do fiddle with them a little in PhotoShop. I used to just adjust levels. But last month Lori over at Gardener of Good and Evil taught me a new PhotoShop trick that drives this scan from antique-looking to something much closer to the actual colors of the flowers. (Long story short: Duplicate layer, multiply. Though more often now I use duplicate layer and hard light to get closer match with reality.)
Most of the images you see on this blog were shot with Canon Digital Rebel. I still don’t know what all the buttons do, but I can take passable images with it.
Scans have one big advantage: You can’t see all the weeds.
😆
Cool scans – I love the juxtaposition of blooms.
Beautiful scans. I like that bottom one with the calla lilies.
Such an original way to show us your blooms. Really beautiful
Love the scans and have started a few of my own! They are dramatic!
Awesome!
Love the scans! Especially the first one, and the one with the euphorbia (I think?) In the first scan, what is the white-flowering plant coming in from the left hand side middle? (Just under what I think is begonia flowers, and next to the peony.) That looks like it ought to be fragrant as all get-out for some reason.
Kim: That’s Persicaria polymorpha, if memory serves. Makes a nice drift, but not really great as a specimen plant, in my mind. Blooms all summer, but not fragrant, at least not to me.
I like your twist on the usual Bloom Day posts. They remind me of painted still lifes.
These are just beautiful images! I love the dramatic lighting and the full, rich color of the blooms. I keep going back and forth on digital photography. I have an old, beloved Nikon FE2 and occasionally scan but use a Canon Elph for my blog. I’m planning to get a digital SLR this summer as I think the technology is just about there.
Les:
Scans have one big advantage: You can’t see all the weeds.
Sarah:
These scans are made on a cheap hand-me-down scanner. I do fiddle with them a little in PhotoShop. I used to just adjust levels. But last month Lori over at Gardener of Good and Evil taught me a new PhotoShop trick that drives this scan from antique-looking to something much closer to the actual colors of the flowers. (Long story short: Duplicate layer, multiply. Though more often now I use duplicate layer and hard light to get closer match with reality.)
Most of the images you see on this blog were shot with Canon Digital Rebel. I still don’t know what all the buttons do, but I can take passable images with it.
Scans have one big advantage: You can’t see all the weeds.
😆
Cool scans – I love the juxtaposition of blooms.
Beautiful scans. I like that bottom one with the calla lilies.
Such an original way to show us your blooms. Really beautiful
Love the scans and have started a few of my own! They are dramatic!
Awesome!
Love the scans! Especially the first one, and the one with the euphorbia (I think?) In the first scan, what is the white-flowering plant coming in from the left hand side middle? (Just under what I think is begonia flowers, and next to the peony.) That looks like it ought to be fragrant as all get-out for some reason.
Kim: That’s Persicaria polymorpha, if memory serves. Makes a nice drift, but not really great as a specimen plant, in my mind. Blooms all summer, but not fragrant, at least not to me.