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Black-and-white Flower Pictures: Panchromatic films enable you to get beautiful black-and-white results with ordinary Camera equipment, and often without color filters. This does not mean that filters have no use in this work, but it does mean that in many cases a Filter is not needed. In others the use of a Filter adds just enough more color correction to give you tone brightnesses in the black-and-white print that are comparable to those registered by the eye. While these "pan" films are best for black-and-white flower pictures because of their sensitivity to all colors, good results can also be obtained with Kodak Verichrome Film and the proper filter, such as the Kodak Color Filter or the K2 Filter. For information on these, see the preceding chapter.Although the big money in calendars lies in color transparencies, calendar publishers offer a good market for black and white pictures, as well. Subject matter desired in black and white is the same as in color. Payment for a black and white shot is only about a tenth of the price for color, but that still is high enough to be profitable. See Also Immediately The Flower:Certain climbers need regular pruning to encourage flower production, to ensure the plant remains vigorous and to keep them nicely shaped. Many, however, do not need pruning, except to remove dead wood as necessary. For deciduous climbers that flower in spring or early summer, prune back the growths produced the previous year immediately the flower after flowering. Deciduous climbers that flower in summer and the fall on growths formed in the current season should be pruned in early spring.Certain climbers need regular pruning to encourage flower production, to ensure the plant remains vigorous and to keep them nicely shaped. Many, however, do not need pruning, except to remove dead wood as necessary. For deciduous climbers that flower in spring or early summer, prune back the growths produced the previous year immediately the flower after flowering. Deciduous climbers that flower in summer and the fall on growths formed in the current season should be pruned in early spring. On The Other Hand See Biennials Flower In Early:MANY BIENNIALS flower in early and midsummer, thus usefully filling an awkward gap that can occur between the spring and summer flowers. Like annuals, they are temporary plants which should be pulled up and put on the compost pile when they have finished flowering. Also, as with annuals, though it's easy enough to save seed of most kinds it is usually impossible to prevent cross-fertilization of different varieties, as a result of which home-saved seed produces only a mongrel population. The distinction between annuals, biennials and herbaceous perennials is not always clear-cut since sometimes varieties of one group can be treated as if they belonged to one of the other groups; hollyhocks (Alcea), for example, can be grown as annuals, biennials or short-lived perennials. However, to be sure of a regular succession of biennials it is necessary to sow seed every year at the correct season.Annuals are plants with a short life but a merry one. In the space of a few months they grow, flower and die, leaving the ground free for further cultivation, if necessary, and for other plants. Biennials are plants which must be renewed annually from seed, since they die after they have flowered and set seed. In this they resemble annuals, but biennials take over a year to complete their cycle of growth. Seed sown one year will produce plants that will flower the next year, ripen their seed, and die before the second winter. |
