Andrea B. Posted July 6, 2013 Share Posted July 6, 2013 Blum, A.G. (2016) Zinnia haageana Regel 'Persian Carpet' (Asteraceae) Mexican Zinnia. Flowers photographed in ultraviolet, infrared and visible light. http://www.ultraviol...mexican-zinnia/ [update: 22 August 2016] Comment:This Zinnia cultivar growing at Charlotte Rhoades exhibits a nice mix of singles & doubles and colour variations. Interestingly each ray in the UV has the same UV-dark appearance with UV-bright tips. As Bjørn has commented below, we see here some invariance in the UV signature under cultivation for the Persian Carpet line of Z. haageana. SET 1Charlotte Rhoades Park & Butterfly Garden, Southwest Harbor, Maine, USA16 July 2012Cultivar in botanical garden Equipment [Nikon D300-broadband + Carl Zeiss 60mm f/4.0 UV-Planar] Visible Light [f/8 for 1/250" @ ISO 400 with onboard Flash and Baader UVIR-Block Filter] Ultraviolet Light [f/8 for 1/60" @ ISO 800 with SB-14 UV-modified Flash and Baader UV-Pass Filter] Visible Light [f/8 for 1/60" @ ISO 200 with onboard Flash and Baader UVIR-Block Filter] Ultraviolet Light [f/8 for 1/60" @ ISO 635 with SB-14 UV-modified Flash and Baader UV-Pass Filter] Visible Light [f/8 for 1/60" @ ISO 200 with onboard Flash and Baader UVIR-Block Filter] Ultraviolet Light [f/8 for 1/250" @ ISO 400 with SB-14 UV-modified Flash and Baader UV-Pass Filter] Visible Light [f/8 for 1/160" @ ISO 200 with onboard Flash and Baader UVIR-Block Filter] Ultraviolet Light [f/8 for 1/160" @ ISO 400 with SB-14 UV-modified Flash and Baader UV-Pass Filter] SET 2Charlotte Rhoades Park & Butterfly Garden, Southwest Harbor, Maine, USA21 July 2016Cultivar in botanical garden Equipment [Nikon D600-broadband + Soligor 35/3.5] Visible Light [f/11 for 1/200" @ ISO 200 in Sunlight with Baader UVIR-Block Filter] Ultraviolet Light [f/11 for 2.5" @ ISO 200 in Sunlight with Baader UV-Pass Filter] Infrared Light [f/11 for 1/80" @ ISO 200 in Sunlight with B+W093 IR-Pass Filter] Link to comment
nfoto Posted July 6, 2013 Share Posted July 6, 2013 This is highly interesting. All those cultivars basically have the same UV signature. Of course filled vs non-filled flower heads have the ray flowers arranged differently, but each ray floret apparently responds in a similar fashion in UV. So, one can postulate that the underlying UV signature is invariant under cultivation. At least this holds for the Zinnia. Link to comment
Andrea B. Posted July 9, 2013 Author Share Posted July 9, 2013 Yes, this is an interesting UV example, isn't it? One of the reasons I pursue UV-photographing of garden Cultivars is that with the wide variety of species and types they present, we can often conduct these little experiments on the UV signatures. Your comment here reminds me that I should be more diligent about adding Comments to my Cultivar flower posts. Link to comment
Andrea B. Posted August 22, 2016 Author Share Posted August 22, 2016 Updated with garden scenes. Link to comment
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