Beautiful lilies Jody!!! The yellow ones are my favorites. Thanks for sharing.

Carrie

Very pretty!!! I think your photos look fine.
Last year I had over 800 daylilies, but I fell out of love with a lot of them. Some were blotchy, rain did a real job on many, there are always ugly, spent blooms on the plant with the pretty blooms which is a real distraction even though I tried to deadhead, but with that many it became a real chore instead of a pleasure. I turned a long section of the daylily bed in to a veggie garden and have only approx. 70 daylilies that are my favorites scattered here and there in small sections of my perennial and annual gardens. I do want to get some oriental and asiatic lilies since they keep their blooms a lot longer.
Thanks for sharing. Jane

Seems like you are doing just fine. These are fabulous pictures. I love the big grouping of the lemon yellow lilies, looks great. The first picture, with the orange and yellow color combos turned out great also.

Jody,

My favorite is the top one - the oranges & yellows. God, that is gorgeous! The Yarrows add the perfect airy-ness to the group and subtly echoes the yellows and oranges of the lilies. Art at it's best. I want to capture that in oils or pastels. Will be fantastic as a painting.

Your photos are right on and beautiful!

~Annie

No, the same thing happens to me with my camera. I notice it especially when taking photos of my hibiscus. They are such a beautiful vibrant pink, but never look quite the same in the picture. :-/

Lovely! I really like that first combination, too. I also have have trouble with color and my camera. A digital SLR is on my wish list at some point--maybe a Christmas gift to myself!

Thanks for sharing the pictures. I just love seeing what everyone is growing.

Lisa

Your photos -- and flowers -- are beautiful!

By taking a close up shot, as you did, it is a bit easier to capture the right tones. Both of your photos are perfectly framed, too.

I find that anything with blue tones is better photographed with shade or on a cloudy day. Sunshine throws gold onto the plant. Sometimes, I enlist my husband to create shade when I'm trying to photograph a flower.

The most difficult color for me to capture is red, as in crocosmia 'Lucifer', salvias and monarda 'Jacob Cline', for example.

I wrote about this topic last year where I compare the same plants taken in full sun versus a cloudy day on a planting of agastache. The difference is amazing!

I try to get out before 7:00 am to take photos in summer. Even then, my garden is in full sun and I still have plants in harsh light. The evening is my second choice, but that really increases the blue tones a bit too far.

Cameron

Here is a link that might be useful: Compare Photos: Sun and Clouds

Just lovely combinations. Soft pale yellow is a favorite of mine for adding brightness to a planting. Cameron has great advice - shoot early in the AM or on a cloudy day. I find it particularly hard to get accurate colors of red and orange. They are so saturated that they fool the camera's sensors. Your photos are just fine, they don't look unnatural, but I guess since you can see them in person you would know if they were accurate or not.

How lovely! Yes my morning garden shots are normally by far the best, but sometimes you want to capture that vividness in mid day.

I feel rather the same way about daylilies - it is hard for me to be without them as they add such color and long season bloom - but the big tetraploids really need to be snapped off every morning or you spoil the new day's flowers. At least I have developed a new appreciation for the simpler varieties - I have a big airy one called "Flycatcher" that has tall airy scapes and then old blooms rather add to the picture as they lay back for the next day's blooms. "Autumn Minaret" is another deep yellow simple ones with very tall scapes that is marvelous in the back of the borders - you know when you buy daylilies you only see the flowers, but the way the entire plant grows matters, too. Both of these are real winners.

I used to have tons of true lilies and they are on my list to add back - I have a few here and there but not those lovely big clumps that are so pretty and useful in the garden. This fall they are on the "todo" list.

Beautiful photos, though, and I agree the yarrow is a lovely compliment. Isn't it funny for years I didn't want orange in my garden either and now I can't get enough of it. It seems to spark joy and festiveness.