A montage of a dozen types of “Echinopsis
cactus” flowers blooming and showing off their incredible colors. Echinopsis
cactus flowers bloom overnight and last for only a day. In reality, the most of
flowers are at their peak beauty for an hour or two. That's what turned me from
a cactus fanatic into a cactus photographer and the longing to try to protect
some aspect of their freaky attractiveness. Prior to becoming an Echinopsis enthusiast
a few years back, I had never owned a DSLR or image-video editing software. In
the evening when it looks like a plant's flowers are about to bloom, I bring it
indoors to image and most of the clips in this montage show just about 8 hours
of change as the flowers open and bloom. A little more than halfway through the
montage, there are a series of three clips showing different views of a 24-hour
period in the life of a yellow-flowered 'Daydream' plant. Six flowers that
opened the night before I started filming wilt to nothingness and another 4
flowers grow spectacularly and then open. This series of “Daydream” clips is
followed by another three showing other types of flowers wilting. These extra
wilting clips are also taken over a daylong period.
Therefore, the question the most
often about of cactus flower still images and time lapses is whether I have
"Photo-shopped" them, that is, have I used editing software to juice
things up and create the flowers' intense colors. He further said, I do, of
course, use Photoshop and Light room and other editing software. Moreover, rather than using these tools to
overstate reality, I actually use them to reduce the intensity of the colors my
camera captures. I have reduced the color saturation in every time-lapse clip
in this video by a minimum of 10% and some 'Cabaret' and 'Antimatter' by 30% or
more in order to have something that wasn't just completely blown out. I hope
you enjoy "Freaky Flowers" and visit echinopsisfreak.com where you'll
learn more than you ever wanted to know about these cacti and also be able to
reach me via a contact form should you wish.
Freaky Flowers: Echinopsis Cacti in Bloom from EchinopsisFreak on Vimeo.
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