Sunflowers and Friends is a light box bracketed high-key sequence combined in Photoshop. The sunflowers, echinacea, and other flowers are from our garden, and shown in In the field for transparency…
Words have a place as a companion to photography, as titles, in captions, in statements, and in books that combine words and imagery. It's often a useful exercise to attempt…
One interesting point that often comes up in my Photographing Flowers for Transparency workshops (such as the recent one I gave at Maine Media) is whether the techniques I teach…
I photographed these flowers just now on black seamless as a demonstration of a bracketed sequence for low-key HDR photography from my Maine Media flower photography workshop.
The basis for this image is a photo I made today during a field trip with my Creative Flower Photography workshop here in Rockport, Maine at the Maine Media Workshops.…
Please check out the following links! My new book Achieving Your Potential As a Photographer: A Photographer's Creative Companion and Workbook is now available and shipping on Amazon. Here's Katie…
I've edited the slide show on my website home page, www.digitalfieldguide.com, to include some new images including: Salutation to the Sun, Spires of Prague, House of Mirrors, and the Clematis…
Dominique James has published a Q&A with me on his blog, along with a cool curation of some of my images. Check it out! Thanks DJ. Yesterday I photographed the…
I printed my Flowers of Spring's Desires on Moab's elegant Juniper Baryta Rag for a friend and collector. She framed it in white, with a pink inner mat. Very nice effect.
Every time I am away for an extended trip Phyllis seems to embark on a home improvement project. This time, while I was in the Czech Republic and giving my…
Transparency means something one can look through with clarity, like a sheet of glass or plastic. So what we are interested in is really translucency---the state or condition of being translucent,…
I am taking a little time to process some of the botanical images I've shot so far this year. Soon I will be moving on to photograph the old stones…
The other day I enjoyed photographing and presenting some local flowers cut from the neighborhood in a fairly traditional way so that the finished images appear at first glance much…
What: A Free Webinar. Join Topaz Labs for an exciting session as Harold Davis shows how he uses Topaz plug-ins to enhance his well-known botanical photos. When: Tuesday, Jul 21, 2015 2:00…
After seeing some of my photos mistaken for O'Keeffe's luscious flower paintings, I took another look at the wondrous botanical art of Georgia O'Keeffe. The sensuous, indeed sexual, nature of…
A Matilija Poppy pokes out in the middle of a covert of flowering dogwood, cosmos, old-fashioned roses, echinacea, and climbing mallows. Enjoy! Photographed straight down on my light box for…
These floral fantasies are created and photographed as collages on the light box, then processing in Adobe Camera Raw, Photoshop, Nik, Topaz, and using LAB color adjustments. What fun! Photographed…
Like Clematis this is a single blossom, photographed on a light box, inverted to black in LAB, and then converted to monochrome using a virtual Infrared filter. The steps are…