Skinny on Fatherhood
When Katie Rose was born she weighed less than two pounds. She's still small for her age, and likes to fit in small spaces like the bathroom towel storage shown…
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June 19, 2011
Go Van Gogh
This image is from a demonstration in Photographing Flowers about how to recreate Vincent van Gogh sunflowers. In Photoshop, starting with a pretty normal photo of a sunflower on a…
June 17, 2011
Photographing Flowers
I'm pleased to announce that Focal Press will be publishing my new book Photographing Flowers: Exploring Macro Worlds with Harold Davis. I love to photograph flowers, and it is very…
June 16, 2011
Finding an Audience with Twitter
My new Photo.net column Using Twitter to Find an Audience for Your Photos explores how best to use Twitter as a platform for garnering an audience for your photos. Actually,…
June 15, 2011
Mathew
Mathew is my almost-seven-year-old son. Sometimes he is a ball of energy and sometimes he is abrasive. Often he is full of love and affection and wonder at the world…
June 14, 2011
Digital Black & White Workshop
Please consider joining me for a hands-on black and white weekend workshop in beautiful Carmel, California, from Friday October 14 through Sunday, October 16, 2011 under the auspices of the Center for Photographic Art…
June 13, 2011
Reviews of Creative Landscapes
As is probably typical of book authors, I'm pretty obsessive about checking the rankings and reviews for my books on Amazon. I wanted to share with you some of the…
June 12, 2011
Following the Path: Print of the Month
Our June and July, 2011 offering is Following the Path. This unusual high dynamic range image of a country road in late afternoon light suggests the possiblities ahead if one…
June 11, 2011
Facelift
There's much water under the bridge since I started blogging about photography in 2005. Photography, kids, books, and adventures have all happened in the time that has passed. Katie Rose…
June 10, 2011
Monochromatic Inversion
An inversion, in noun form, is a reversal. In verb form, applying an inversion is inverting, or even "to invert." In Photoshop, you can invert an entire image, or a…
June 9, 2011
Papaver Somniferum and Papaver Dubium
At Blake Garden they very graciously cut some poppies for me. I brought them back to my studio and photographed them on my light box, with the results you see…
June 8, 2011
Green Temple
Want to try an interesting experiment in photography? Limit yourself to a single fixed-focal length lens shot pretty much wide open for minimal depth-of-field, and see what kinds of interesting…
June 6, 2011
Structure of Time
Looking up through layers of rock makes me feel that I can see the structure of time moving at a geological pace. Note: This is an exposure blend of five…
June 5, 2011
Dragonfly Wing
Last week after a rainy afternoon a dragonfly settled in my garden. I was already out photographing, so I was able to make the most of its cooperation. Up close,…
June 4, 2011
Does every photo need to be in focus?
Does every photo need to be in focus? Sometimes when I'm approaching landscapes or botanicals it seems that way. The convention is that landscapes are sharp and in-focus, usually across…
June 3, 2011
White Irises in a Vase
I photographed these Iris using a black velvet background and sunlight enhanced with reflectors and gobos. To make the image, I shot six exposures with my 85mm perspective-correcting macro set…
June 1, 2011
Fotografia creativa en blanco y negro
We are very pleased with the Spanish translations of Creative Black & White and Creative Portraits. These Spanish translations are published and beautifully produced by Anaya.
May 31, 2011
Dragonfly
It rained heavily in the afternoon. I went out to shoot waterdrops in the garden at dusk after the rain had stopped. This dragonfly was sitting on an Iris, and…
May 30, 2011