Nov. 2010 - Genesee Region Orchid Society
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1. OO Hw z Vol 32 No 3 November 2010 rchid d 8 lection Genesee Region Orchid Society Inc http www geneseeorchid org NEXT MEETING MONDAY NOV 8 2010 Orchids 101 6 00 p m Social Hour 7 00 7 15 p m Meeting begins at 7 15 p m Senior Lounge Jewish Community Center 1200 Edgewood Ave Rochester NY hings are finally beginning to quiet down The phone has vir tually stopped ringing as the army of robocallers packs up its bags and heads off to who knows where The morning glories have frozen and the dahlias are looking poorly as they await their long winter s nap in a paper sack in the basement But our orchid season is in full stride November brings Dr Duane Erdmann to our meeting with a discussion of Restrepias Duane and his wife Judy began growing orchids in Rochester in 1974 First the collection was under lights in their basement and later they moved it to a small greenhouse Over the years they moved five times and built Restrepia aristulaferd k A 5 greenhouses each one a little bigger Their current greenhouse is Photo Duane Erdmann LA Bae 4 18 x 24 off their garage in Kennett Square Pennsylvania The Erdmanns still grow under lights in the basement too the little things and those that like moderated temperatures Paphiopedilum still remain their main focus but in more recent years Duane has moved over to the small side Restrepias Duane is a retired2. Don t use the camera s flash Read the man ual if necessary and figure out how to turn it off Otherwise leave the camera in the auto matic mode of operation Lighting the flower is very important Take the photo with as big a window as you can find to your back This will give you nice diffuse daylight to illuminate your flower Select a non distracting background This is sometimes hard A bunch of green leaves from other plants makes a good back ground A piece of gray cloth is also a good choice You probably won t have good luck with either black cloth white cloth or a strong color It ll throw off the exposure and your or chid will be too light or too dark If you want a black background move to the next section Select the best flower on the plant You want one that s flat symmetrical and doesn t have any cuts tears or spots Almost always once you start looking you ll find that some blossoms are better than others Pick the best one and zoom in on it Also it s a good idea to try and pick a flower that s not covered up by another flower Tilt the plant or the camera Until the flower is straight in the viewfinder 0 3 20 Hold the camera as still as you can Without a flash you ll have a longer exposure time A tripod will help Take several pictures The lingering habits of using film and process ing which cost money shouldn t prevent you from making some more digital expos
3. Meeting Minutes for Monday Oct 5 2010 President Paul Batz called the meeting to or der at 7 15 p m Paul welcomed members and guests A motion was made by Suzanne Flanders to accept the September meeting minutes A sec ond was made by Natalie Auburn A vote was taken and the minutes were accepted Ron Uhlig treasurer gave the financial re port for the past month Beginning balance was 14 725 57 Ending balance as tonight s meeting stands at 14 112 86 A question was posed about the audit Jeremy Bechelli Member at Large will draft a letter in sum mary of the audit to be presented at the next meeting A motion was made by Susie Mey ers to pass the financial report A second was made by Anna Greene A vote was taken and the treasurer s report was accepted Paul announced that articles are needed for the Newsletter Anyone wishing to submit an article should send it to our webmaster Phil Matt Phil added that there is no limit to num ber of articles or content size since it is an elec tronic newsletter A clipboard was sent around to sign up to bring in refreshments for our upcoming orchid meetings Regarding the upcoming spring Show Paul said that a Chairperson is still needed The board has decided to break down the respon sibilities of the Show into working parts He encouraged the membership to be willing to accept if asked to do a part in the show It was also decided by the executive board that our
4. These are less than 10 each at Lowes or Home Depot Stick in a 100 watt light bulb and you re good to go However it is important that you set the white balance on your camera properly The wrong white balance will give your picture an overall bluish or yellowish cast You may not notice it if the background is black but it will affect the color of the blossom If you re using old fashioned tungsten light bulbs set the white balance to tungsten This may also require a little reading of the User s Manual You ll want to set up the lights with one light on each side of the flower at the same level as the camera One more advantage of a black background is that you don t have worry about shadows on the background Use any other color and you ll probably have to fiddle with the lights to eliminate the shadows If you have a good flower a good background and good lighting there won t be a need for much if any editing after you ve down ping and could possibly remove using the clone feature of your software a blemish or two as needed One final word You ll be tempted to go for the artistic version of your flower pictures One of the most common is to zoom in on the lip and column a little bit from the side and tipped a little But there s something to be said for a nice straight on shot showing the entire flower It provides the best documenta tion of the flower Ron Uhlig GROS Treasurer Director o
5. chemist His favorite thing about orchids is photographing them In recent years he has taken trips to Ecuador to see orchids in their natural settings and to do more detailed studies of specific species He and Judy both share a passion for some of the more exotic species and successfully do it all when it comes to growing greenhouse windowsill and under lights Duane Erdmann will take us behind the scenes to see just how easy it can be for growers of all kinds to add a Restrepia or two to their collections He will also share thoughts on taxonomy and classifica tion efforts to date having more than 30 different identified Restrepia species and a dozen more unknowns in his collection He has had the Opportunity to study and photograph them in situ which will add con viction and depth to his talk Join us with an open mind and a desire to expand your collection Duane will not have plants for sale at the meeting members are wel IN THIS ISSUE come to bring their own plants to sell ih Meeting Minutes 92 We ll be taking Duane out to dinner on Monday prior to the meeting at Applebee s Show Table 92 Neighborhood Grille 3349 Monroe Ave Rochester If you d like to join us everyone pays for his or her own dinner please email Carol Butcher Butcher2 8 yahoo com ASAP The Orchid Photography 93 Show Table will be back so please don t forget your flowering plants We ll see you there Treasurer s Report 94
6. especially all names and abbreviations in boldface and correct or complete your records Once the parents are printed kindly include them the next time you show the plant Iris Cohen 315 461 9226 iriscohen aol com DPODODODDODODDODODDDODDOODPDOODODOODDOOOKO OKO POR POM POOP T7 S X o FOR SALE oS x oS Hydro Farm Grow Light with 400 Watt High pressure Sodium x A bulb exterior ballast Suitable for damp locations K X oS 4 humidity trays and a light intensity meter 6 x oS 125 or best offer Lorraine Kuipers 585 381 9514 h X QPDDPDDDDDPDODPODP OOP JODO DO PDO PDO PODS DO PSO OOO OOQ Photographing your Orchids Photographing your orchids ranks right up there with photographing your kids It s something you just need to have to show to the friends at work school or church After all it only takes nine months to make a baby but you may have been nurturing your orchid for several years before it decides to reward you with a bloom or two so you have a right to brag about it In addition it s good to have a record in case you need help identifying it you lose the label or just to compare this blooming with the pre vious one But I hear you saying I could never take pic tures with my point and shoot digital camera that come close to the quality of those that show up in magazines like Orchids and Or chids Digest Well Pm here to say that you can do a fairly good job with a few simp
7. of pictures with different exposure times Start at 1 10 of a second Check out the picture on the monitor and if it s too dark in crease the exposure time by one notch to say 1 5 second If it s still dark increase the ex posure time by one more notch and then take another photo Continue this until the picture is obviously too light It may take five or ten photos or even more This practice is called bracketing and is worth the effort This is also where you need a tripod Any hand held exposure time less than 1 30 of a second will likely be blurry Otherwise your steps are the same as above Most importantly follow the steps to look at the pictures on your computer and delete all but the best one It s better to make the final decision on your computer not on the cam era s monitor which is relatively small Don t forget to rename the picture 4 53 comput loaded the er You might have to do a little crop picture to your Clo Jumbo Lace SVO x Gti Frilly Doris SVO HCC AOS F Photo ORon Uhie Next steps The biggest task in setting up the photo of your orchid is lighting The camera flash is a no no Big windows in back of you are good and should be used when available But what can you do at night or in the winter in Roch ester or in a room such as the basement that doesn t have a good window I ve had good luck with two simple clamp on lights with aluminum reflectors
8. society will not be participating in Gardenscape in the spring of 2011 There was not enough response by the public in attend ing our orchid show to offset the work and expense involved in setting up and staffing this event Phil Matt brought in hard copies of the 2010 2011 Members List for anyone wishing to have one to page 5 OCTOBER SHOW TABLE Cypripedium Alliance 2 O Paph tonsum Fleischman Paph Doll s Kobold charlesworthiu x henryanum Hober Cattleya Alliance C Pink Elf Mini Purple x loddigesit Batz Ctt La Selva Gur bowringiana x C Bonanza Bracey P Rlc Sweet Norma Odom s Sweetheart x Lawless Freisch tz Bardun Ctt Sagarik Wax Silk Ball C Summerland Girl x Chocolate Drop j Vandaceous V Robert s Delight Kasem s Delight x Madame Rattana Uhlig Prra Motes Leprechaun V Paki x Luke Thai Batz Pps Sunny x Chri vietnamica Matt Phal lueddemanniana Myers V Pachara Delight Karulea x Gordon Dillon Pfromm Oncidium Alliance Tolu Wave Dancer x Robsan x Rrm Sycamore Hollow Uhlig Orpha radicans i Odcdm Dark Horse Ctd Roger Cole x Odm povedanum Batz Brs Eternal Wind Bracdiana x Rex Butcher Miscellaneous Pna Majestic cristata lt herrerae Uhlig Aslla africana Batz Sometimes there is a delay between the time a new genus is entered and offspring genera are renamed If there are any names you have questions about don t hesitate to call or e mail me Please note
9. 2 6527 339 8631 872 0112 288 7025 lt open gt 377 3213 377 3595 lt open gt 288 5014 924 7763 387 9940 288 7025 aosrep geneseeorchid org auct10 geneseeorchid org beginners geneseeorchid org libr geneseeorchid org monroe geneseeorchid org monroe2 geneseeorchid org webnews geneseeorchid org regist geneseeorchid org webnews geneseeorchid org 6 2s The Genesee Region Orchid Society GROS meets every month from September through May at the Jewish Community Center 1200 Edgewood Avenue Rochester NY on the first Monday following the first Sunday of each month Dates sometimes vary due to holidays etc The GROS is an Affiliate of The American Orchid Society and of The Orchid Digest Corporation Material in our newslet ter The Orchid Collection may be freely reprinted in other orchid society publications with proper attribution Copyrighted illustrations photographs or articles may not be reprinted without the express written permission of the artist or author Auction io Monday NIGHT Dec 6 2010 Details on the GROS Website soon
10. age and learn how to use it to next page from previous page The Pro Wannabee Shooter A gray background is good and provides a fairly accurate representation of the flower but lve noticed that most orchid pictures in magazines have a black background And I don t mean a dark background I m talking about pure black How do we do that First you need something that s really black for the background Black velvet or velour is the best I was lucky to find some very black velvet in a local fabric store a few years ago You might also try looking on the web Get a piece that is at least 4 ft x 6 ft Buy or build some sort of frame that you can hang it over as well as allow it to drape over the table top that you re using In general follow the same steps to take the picture as above use diffuse light from in back of you select the best flower and zoom in to get the flower to fill the picture Using the auto exposure mode on your cam era with a black background probably won t work I m betting the orchid will come out too light Rather set the camera to manual expo sure mode Set the aperture to a fairly high value like f 11 or f 16 The higher f number gives you greater depth of field which means that it s most likely that all of the flower will be in focus This is especially important when shooting in the macro mode which you will be most of the time Now that you ve set the aperture shoot a se ries
11. er The meeting was adjourned at 9 15 Respectfully submitted by Sandi Uhlig Secretary Restrepia sanguinea Walter AM AOS Photo Ron Uhlig Grower Sandi Uhlig The Orchid Collection is a publication of the Genesee Region Orchid Society It is published ten times per year for our members Single membership is 20 00 family membership is 25 00 annually Dues should be sent to the GROS at P O Box 20606 Rochester N Y 14602 Phil Matt Editor P O Box 10406 Rochester N Y 14610 The Editor receives e mail at webnews geneseeorchid org Genesee Region Orchid Society Officers 2010 2011 President Executive VP Program VP Treasurer Secretary Member at Large Paul Batz Kim Hober Carol Butcher Ron Uhlig Sandi Uhlig Jeremy Bechelli 356 0999 383 1994 387 9940 387 9940 339 8631 pres geneseeorchid org veep geneseeorchid org 2prog geneseeorchid org trease geneseeorchid org sec geneseeorchid org matlarge geneseeorchid org GROS Committee Chairpersons 2010 2011 AOS Rep Auction Education Dave Weiss Jeff Snyder Jeremy Bechelli Community Outreach Librarian Monroe Cty Liaison Newsletter Nominating ODC Rep Property Raffle Show Social Sonnenberg Liaison Special Ops Webmaster Mariko Pollock Jeremy Bechelli David Hayes Phil Matt Alan Salzman Exec VP Jeff Snyder Lorri Bayer Fran Murphy Ron Uhlig Phil Matt 544 3561 377 5895 339 8531 lt open gt 44
12. f Special Ops GROS Auction 5 amp 8 Treasurer s Report for September 2010 Sep 2010 Treasurer s Report presented at Oct meeting Income Details Raffle 49 00 Dues s SC C C y o 195 00 es es y y o a ee Total S 244 00 Expense Details Speaker s Fee for Sep mtg 441 20 Supplies for Orchids 101 mtg 60 00 Library supplies 45 06 Office supplies E854 Insurance oo 100 00 Raffle Plants TE oo 10000 Auctions Plants ooo 7500 Total 8 71 Income Expenses Total PreviousBalance 9 1 2010 14 725 57 Changes Po 244 00 856 71 Current Balance 930 2010 14112 86 Minutes from p 2 The Syracuse Central New York Orchid Society Orchid Show was held the previous weekend Oct 2 amp 3 Paul Batz gathered orchids from members for the show and set up our society exhibit at the show Kathy Kluge took down the exhibit on Sunday afternoon Plants ex hibited at the show were on the show table tonight Several received ribbons Results will be published in the November newsletter Our November speaker Dr Dwaine Erdman will not be selling plants Therefore members will be able to sell plants at the meeting if they would like Program Chairperson Carol Butcher introduced our speaker Bill Thoms who gave us a humorous and enlightening presentation on Bulbophyllums Thanks go to Carol Butcher for housing Bill this month After the raffle the show table was presented by Paul Batz and Kim Hob
13. le steps We can talk about two levels of orchid pho tography The first assumes you ve got a basic point and shoot camera and that s about it No fancy equipment and not much patience Let s call him or her the Impatient Shooter The second level assumes you ve got a slightly more advanced point and shoot or an SLR that you re willing to wade through the menus to figure out how to use the manual exposure mode and that you have a piece of black cloth and perhaps even a tripod You re willing to invest a little time in order to get a better quality picture There s a third level that involves a little fanci er setup with a couple remote flash units trig ger mechanisms and light diffusers I m going to assume that if you have this stuff you know how to use it The Impatient Shooter I might have called this the quick and dirty level but Pm sure you still want a good quality picture The biggest requirement here is that you have a camera that has a macro or close up mode In the normal mode most cameras probably cannot focus on objects closer than about two or three feet away That means that you re going take a picture that covers an area that s about a foot wide If your orchid flower is a couple inches across all you ll see is a little splash of color So you need to become famil lar with your camera s close up or macro mode and use it to zoom in on the flower Here are the steps to a good picture
14. ures Snap away Digital pictures are free so take several exposures Keep track of the flower s name This is really important A year from now the picture will be practically worthless if you don t know the name I like to do this by taking a picture of the label after I ve photographed the flower As soon as possible down load the pictures to your computer Look at the pictures and de cide if any of them are what you re looking for If not now s the time to go back and reshoot Not tomorrow Not next week Right now Delete all of the pictures except the best one This is really hard for most people but it s re ally important if you want a useful set of pic tures Those inferior shots just cause digital clutter so delete them Go to the picture that you took of the label Remember it or write it down Go back to the one picture you liked best and rename it to the name of the flower A year from now are you going to remember that DSC2013 jpg was Phal Baldan s Kaleido scope So even though you re the Impatient shooter take the time to change the name You might ask what software should you use for all this manipulating of your images There are many choices I m really fond of a package called ACDSee but most cameras come with some sort of photo album software Most computers are also delivered with basic photo album editing software as part of the operating system Pick a software pack
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