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e6filmuser
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A while ago I I posted some images of a Sarracenia hybrid. I tried to show the venation with backlight from a window. My success was limited. I recently purchased a few more plants, the latest arriving yesterday and photographed by daylight, in the open air. These plants originate from the wild stock in the USA, then cultivated and often hybridised.
These were daylight exposure, some with sunlight behind the plant, others with direct lighting. We have had a lot of gusty wind in recent days and yesterday was no exception. However, there was a short period of almost still air and I took advantage of that. I was to learn that the slightest air movement would bend these modified leaves. Just to make it worse, I had chosen plants with pitched 60-65cm tall, about three times the typical size.
The genetics of these plants is complicated but they are both of S. leucophlla parentage. The second one (last image) is from anthocyanin-free stock. This means that it lacks the red pigment from the "veins" but it is not that simple.
I photographed two pitchers of the first one and though I had done something wrong with the colour, e.g. one having green pigment and the other not. But this seems to be a maturity factor.
The stereo is crosseye.
EM-1, Kiron 105, f16*, 1/200 (last one 1/250) ISO 800 sunlight, hand-held.
*Another half stop smaller would have given the ideal DOF.
Harold
These were daylight exposure, some with sunlight behind the plant, others with direct lighting. We have had a lot of gusty wind in recent days and yesterday was no exception. However, there was a short period of almost still air and I took advantage of that. I was to learn that the slightest air movement would bend these modified leaves. Just to make it worse, I had chosen plants with pitched 60-65cm tall, about three times the typical size.
The genetics of these plants is complicated but they are both of S. leucophlla parentage. The second one (last image) is from anthocyanin-free stock. This means that it lacks the red pigment from the "veins" but it is not that simple.
I photographed two pitchers of the first one and though I had done something wrong with the colour, e.g. one having green pigment and the other not. But this seems to be a maturity factor.
The stereo is crosseye.
EM-1, Kiron 105, f16*, 1/200 (last one 1/250) ISO 800 sunlight, hand-held.
*Another half stop smaller would have given the ideal DOF.
Harold
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