Night and Day

I love the night shots, but for some people who have never seen some of the hybrids, they might think that the gorgeous dark shots are the actual color of the brugs and in some cases that may be, but my experience has been that night shots make the color more intense. Day picture are probably the best to show someone what you will be sending them and then they won't be disappointed. So, I'm going to put up a day shot first and then a night shot of the same flower. It is amazing how much difference there is. This is Butterfly

Here is the night shot.

There is a huge difference in color! I don't think anyone would be dissapointed though. Neat comparison.

You are right a big difference. I wouldn't care either one is beautiful. Donna

Gee I do not find that at all Brugie. My night shots of Rosamond are the same paler pink in them as they are during the day. In fact I think Rosamond is darker pink in real life than in my shots. And L'Amour is the same color also in my day shots as my night ones and in reality. When I get home I will put up a few comparisons to show you. I do find my flash can wash out the color at night if I do not put my macro on regardless of the distance I am.

Maybe it has to do with the cameras. My camera takes such great night shots with just its flash, no added light. I love it for that! Your night pic is very dark even of its main subject. I have been reading reviews as I research for my for my next camera, and some seem to take terrible night shots.

The only color I have a problem with is purple. Sometimes it is OK but sometimes it is very blue, night or day. Lots of great pics I delete because the color is just not real when I am shooting my purple flowering plants and trees.

I find that the truest color of the blooms shows when you have just enough daylight that the flash doesn't go off in the early morning or late evening. Here are my examples of different times of the day pics. This is with flash at dusk

Late evening with no flash

early morning

Full sun mid afternoon

Nice series of pics!!! :-)

Morning, noon or night, I love all the photos. Thanks and keep them coming.

My camera does that with purple, too, kell. I was trying to take some nice pics of my iochroma, and it kept coming out so blue on the computer, I finally just did a color adjustment to the picture so it would better represent the real color of the blooms. I hate to do that, but that is the only thing I could get to work.

I want a SLR digital with the ability to manually focus. I like my camera, but sometimes it will focus incorrectly and there is no way to manually adjust that. I have had my eye on the Olympus E10 or E20 for a long time, just gotta come up with the bucks!

Our Nikon 995 takes true color, but using the flash sort of washes the color out.

Which brug is that one Donna? It is a beauty!

I didn't say it was set in stone, just in a lot of instances, the pictures come out darker at night. I'm sure cameras do make a difference too. There are so many variables, and our newer people need to know that what they see may not be what they get. Even the soil and temps make a difference in blooms and color. So, it isn't just night pictures.

Hibiscus, my flash at night also washes out the color. I'm using an Olympus D-400.

Brugie, you are correct about the color in pictures not coming true, no matter what camera you use. I have ordered daylily after daylily that was pictured as pink, and when they bloomed they were various shades of peach, even almost orange. I have been disappointed so many times in the past with flowers that have turned out completely different than the pictures. I just hope that some of the brugs that I've seen really turn out to be pink, not salmon.

Donna, which of your pics is the truest? What camera? and What brug?? LOL That's all. I'm done now. :)

Yes, that is a great series of shots! The color varied quite a bit depending... I almost saw peach in the full sun/mid afternoon shot.

Ditto to Seed's question ~ which picture does the bloom most represent from your own eye?

For me...the first one I posted and the third one of Donna's.

Beautiful flowers and I have learned from this thread. Thank you all!

I agree that different times of the day make a big differnce in the colors. I know I have taken tons of pictures of a plant to try to get the true color its hard to do.

Ohhh........Donna, wherefore art thou?

Shirley, congrats, you used best mix of fertilizing and watering( and calcium ). Such good colours you only will reach with good caring and watching the fertilizer.
Same here: Some brugs look pale because I did not watch them.

The 3rd pic is true. Early morning indirect light. Usually around 7:30 to 8:30 a.m. central time. Oh yes it is Butterfly. I use a Canon Pro 90IS(image stabilizer)Digital

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My brugs get 17-5-17 with minors. I'm concerned that they may have soil that is too sweet. I'm going to do some testing with a couple of duplicate brugs using Miracid like I did this spring and when the one Butterfly was so much darker than the other one. I've been fertilizing at least twice a week, but I'm wondering that because we are so dry and hot that I might need to fertilize more often. Guess I'll play around and see what happens.