Favorite Purple Bulbs--TOW
Mary Sue Ittner (Fri, 24 Sep 2004 16:16:18 PDT)

Hi,

I didn't include Babiana in my favorite list even though it is a wonderful
plant in my garden, blooming a long time in winter and bringing me a lot of
pleasure. And there are some nice purple ones like Babiana framesii.
Susan's note about how different the purple color seems in different
photographs of Dahlias is true for Babianas. I kept experimenting with the
digital camera and Paint Shop Pro to see if I could get a color that looked
like what we were seeing. One of my photographic friends says the
reflection from the blue sky comes to play when you are taking pictures. I
have added two pictures of B. framesii described as dark blue to purple by
Manning and Goldblatt.
http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/…

It's a really nice Babiana and I recently sent a few extra corms to Dell
for the BX. One of the pictures is how the camera sees it (more blue) and
the other more like we saw it (more purple) with some tinkering of white
balance and manipulation afterwards. Since everyone's monitor is a bit
different none of you may see it as I see it on my computer, but perhaps
you can still detect a difference.

Ironically when I used to use my camera for taking pictures of my babianas
some of the purple ones came out looking pink which wasn't right at all.

Mary Sue