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Name: Toni Denver Metro (Zone 5a) Whiskey Tango Foxtrot.              Skiekitty Sep 25, 2012 8:43 AM CST |
| I got a "new" (new for me) camera last night, so had to play this morning. I can't call these ugly blooms 'cuz they're not! Now I'm still learning how to use this camera (got a Canon EOS Rebel XT), so you'll have to forgive me. Blue Bayou Blue Girl & Cinco de Mayo   DayBreaker & English Perfume  Firefighter & Europeana  Harlequin & Kordes' Brilliant (FINALLY got a decent picture of it!)  Hawkeye Belle   Molineux & Mr. Lincoln  No ID & Oranges and Lemons  Oshun & Rainbow's End Red Gold & Rhapsody in Blue Silver Anniversary & Summer Holiday White Licorice & Winter Magic Roses are one of my passions! Just opened, my Etsy shop (to fund my rose hobby)! http://www.etsy.com/shop/Tweet... |
Name: Porkpal Richmond, TX         porkpal Sep 25, 2012 8:50 AM CST |
| Oooh! Aaaah! Porkpal |
Name: Zuzu Northern California (Zone 9a)       |
Oooh! Aaaah! is right.  Great pictures, Toni. |
Name: Steve Prescott, AZ (Zone 7b)    Steve812 Sep 25, 2012 6:11 PM CST |
| Congrats on the new camera, Toni. Good Show. When you dance with nature, try not to step on her toes. |
Name: Shannon Burkeville,Va (Zone 7a) The House on the Hill Gardens         Shannon Sep 25, 2012 6:37 PM CST |
Great pics. Thats the same camera Santa broght me two years ago I just Love it So will you  The horse is God's gift to mankind. ~Arabian Proverb |
Name: Debra Garland, TX (NE Dallas suburb) (Zone 8a) Service dogs: Angels with paws.          lovemyhouse Sep 25, 2012 8:24 PM CST |
| It’s okay to not know all the answers. |
Name: Toni Denver Metro (Zone 5a) Whiskey Tango Foxtrot. Skiekitty Sep 26, 2012 8:49 AM CST |
| Was fiddlefarting around w/the settings on the camera yesterday, so let's see if these are any better. Some are a little blurry due to not using the "auto" mode, but at least they're not super saturated. It rained all afternoon/night, so these roses are wet wet wet. Yay for rain! Judy Garland & Cabana   Colorific & Lavender Simplicity  Royal Amethyst & Silver Anniversary ChaChing! & Hawkeye Belle  Distant Drums & Solar Flash (the sun had just peeked over the trees when I got this one)  Livin' Easy (I think) & Marilyn Monroe   New Year & Firefighter  Harlequin & Koko Loco  Kordes Brilliant (finally got a true-to-color shot!) and Mr. Lincoln  Pandemonium & Blue Bayou (can you tell I love this rose?)  Roses are one of my passions! Just opened, my Etsy shop (to fund my rose hobby)! http://www.etsy.com/shop/Tweet... |
Name: Porkpal Richmond, TX porkpal Sep 26, 2012 9:07 AM CST |
| Wet roses are happy roses. Great pictures! Porkpal |
Name: Shannon Burkeville,Va (Zone 7a) The House on the Hill Gardens Shannon Sep 26, 2012 9:45 AM CST |
| They look so pretty. I just love Koko Loco The horse is God's gift to mankind. ~Arabian Proverb |
Name: Suzanne/Sue Sebastopol, CA (Zone 9a) Sunset Zone 15     |
| Yep, I agree, great camera! (same one I have! ) and great shots! You are going to have so much fun! |
Name: Cindi Wichita, Kansas (Zone 7a)       CindiKS Sep 28, 2012 1:34 PM CST |
| Very nice. The lavender tones in particular come out true. How does it do at nighttime with flash? Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get. H. Jackson Brown, Jr. |
Name: Toni Denver Metro (Zone 5a) Whiskey Tango Foxtrot. Skiekitty Oct 1, 2012 11:34 AM CST |
| Last pictures for September. These were taken morning of 9/28 before the sun rose. Some of these roses are multiple shots of the same rose taken over different days. Oklahoma and Ring of Fire   Vineyard Song (little fuzzy) and Tuscan Sun  Purple Heart & a NoID (no tag)   Red Intuition & Gemini  Scentimental  Blue Bayou & Pandemonium  Oklahoma & RedGold -- These were taken Sat afternoon as the sun was going down. Some of these, if I may say so myself, are amazing. All are true-to-color. Gentleman whom of which I bought the camera from helped me w/the settings. I took these using a 18-55 lense w/a UV filter. NO COLOR ALTERATION WHAT SO EVER. Artistry & Betty Boop  Blue Girl & Blue Bayou (TRUE TO COLOR)  Cinco de Mayo & Distant Drums  Dream come true (with a white crab spider) and Ebb Tide  Golden Princess & Harlequin  Hawkeye Belle & Judy Garland   Koko Loco & New Year   Kordes Brilliant & Kordes Perfecta  Lavender Simplicity & Oklahoma    Oranges & Lemons and Orogold (it was marked Orogold, kinda doubt it)   Purple Splash & Red Intuition  Red Gold & Ring of Fire   Royal Amethyst & Summer Song   White NoID (was tagged Chrysler Imperial.  ) and White Licorice (need to figure out how to take pics of white roses in the sun) & Wild Blue Yonder   --- Non rose pictures Peach Cobbler & Blue Nanho Buddleia (Butterfly bush) Agastache Cana & Virginia Creeper   New England Purple Asters Roses are one of my passions! Just opened, my Etsy shop (to fund my rose hobby)! http://www.etsy.com/shop/Tweet... |
Name: Porkpal Richmond, TX porkpal Oct 1, 2012 12:27 PM CST |
| Wow,Toni! What a show! Your roses are looking terrific, and now you have the photographic capacity to really display them. I am really enjoying your pictures - especially since my roses are mostly taking a bloom-break at the moment. Porkpal |
Name: Steve Prescott, AZ (Zone 7b) Steve812 Oct 1, 2012 4:06 PM CST |
My Goodness, What a lot of color in your garden! I hope you are very pleased.  Here, Day Breaker is making its last flush. Firefighter is behaving as if it will bloom before frost, but at least it is ahead of the last flush from a few other roses. Oranges 'n' Lemons made two roses the size of a quarter in very bright colors. Winter Sunset and Golden Celebration are blooming with Dolly's Forever and Belle Epoque, though it's a bit of an anemic show right now. Scarlet Knight is losing its last darkening blooms. Parade and Dicky bloom in close proximity and make a handsome pair. Cupcake and Winsome keep company with Toscana Vigorosa, all in bloom. Tess of the d'Ubervilles which is now six feet high and eight feet wide has three blooms. Double Delight continues to bloom and yet somehow fails to meet modest expectations. Blush Noisette prepares to make another great volley of pinkish blooms which will clash mightily with the coreopsis behind them. They must be moved.. but to where? Duftzuaber 84 prepares three fresh red blossoms on its four- foot frame. The star of the fall garden next year will be Young Lycidas if the rose grows another two feet in each direction and blooms as well as it is doing now. Handel made its first climbing shoot - one that towers eight feet high and begs for an arch. Bambi has begun deadheading my roses (and rose buds) for me. I've been ignoring it because I know the foliage will be going away soon enough thanks to frost. I've been concentrating so much on killing aphids and powdery mildew and on how to arrange the garden this winter in preparation for next year's new roses, that I haven't had time to spray for deer. I wrote a note to myself to spray with Freeze Pruf soon so that the fresh growth from the last three weeks is not killed unexpectedly on the first frost in October. I think if the foliage can continue to produce sugars for the plant well into November all the roses with new growth right now will be much better off in spring. Again, thanks for the show. I'm afraid that I cannot post a rose photo to the web without cropping it and tweaking the curves just a tad. And maybe sharpening it. It's just a habit. I've been admiring your candid approach and have been wondering whether I should try to break my bad habit, but I'm afraid I'm addicted to eye candy. When you dance with nature, try not to step on her toes. |
Name: Toni Denver Metro (Zone 5a) Whiskey Tango Foxtrot. Skiekitty Oct 1, 2012 4:21 PM CST |
| Steve - The reason why I don't tweak with the photos is twofold: 1) I don't really have enough software to really tweak it (I have XNView, but not photoshop) and 2) I find that to be repulsive to me as it doesn't show the *true* colors / shapes of the roses that *I* can grow in my environment / situation. Kinda like photoshopping models for a magazine.. I hate that. I realize that I have a clouded view, but I'd rather see scars & stretch marks & cellulite than perfection unobtainable. Probably the reason why I feel this way is because of the cellulite / scars I have myself (no stretch marks.. always been fat), so if I were to post a picture of myself, I would post it true to me, not what I *wish* I could be, which is unobtainable. If I want perfection in roses, I'll look at yours or Zuzu's or Sue's. Roses are one of my passions! Just opened, my Etsy shop (to fund my rose hobby)! http://www.etsy.com/shop/Tweet... |
Name: Debra Garland, TX (NE Dallas suburb) (Zone 8a) Service dogs: Angels with paws. lovemyhouse Oct 1, 2012 5:54 PM CST |
I am glad you got that camera, Toni, and are sharing the fruits of your new toy with us.  It’s okay to not know all the answers. |
Name: Paul Utah (Zone 5b) Grandchildren are my greatest joy.         Paul2032 Oct 1, 2012 7:31 PM CST |
| I must be naive but if I've seen pictures on ATP of roses that have been tweaked I haven't realized it. I wouldn't know how to do it if I wanted to. Paul Smith Pleasant Grove, Utah |
Name: Zuzu Northern California (Zone 9a) |
| I sharpen all of my photos, I crop most of them, and if the color's off, I tweak it. My camera doesn't always get the colors right, so if I see that the foliage is wrong -- too bluish-green or too yellowish-green, I adjust the color balance until the leaves look right. Lately I've been carrying a white piece of typing paper around the garden with me when I take pictures because my camera refuses to capture some colors unless they have a white background. |
Name: Toni Denver Metro (Zone 5a) Whiskey Tango Foxtrot. Skiekitty Oct 1, 2012 8:07 PM CST |
Most I do is crop if necessary - especially if I snap a pic and my big feet are in the picture  otherwise, they're raw images just resized so I can load em up quickly (I change them from whatever size to 1000x666 with this camera or 1000x750 with my phone). But that's why you see spent buds, weeds, faded mulch, rocks, weed fabric, hoses... You know, a real neglected yard.  Roses are one of my passions! Just opened, my Etsy shop (to fund my rose hobby)! http://www.etsy.com/shop/Tweet... |
Name: Marilyn Greenwood Village, CO (Zone 5b) Garden today. Clean next week.      CDsSister Oct 1, 2012 8:14 PM CST |
Congratulations on the great new camera but even more so on the beautiful roses. Love 'em. |
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