Dogwood & Friends
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…
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May 24, 2015
Floral Fantasies
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…
May 21, 2015
Mallow
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…
May 12, 2015
Floral Square
Last week when I have a composition on my light box I photographed it with a high resolution camera on tripod. Then I thought, why not do it using my…
May 11, 2015
A Short Course in Translucency
Images that verge on the transparent and convey translucency can appear miraculous. If you want to learn my techniques for photographing flowers for transparency on a light box, but can't…
May 6, 2015
Essays in Translucency
Related stories: The Virtues of Translucency; Clematis; Miraculum Flores.
May 3, 2015
Miraculum Flores
Flowers are a miracle! This is a spring in Berkeley, California that is wondrous in terms of blossoms, and I have been enjoying it and photographing up a floral storm,…
May 1, 2015
Clematis
To photograph this Clematis Bee's Jubilee blossom, I placed it on a light box and photographed it straight down using a tripod with a Nikon D810 and my special Zeiss…
April 29, 2015
The Virtues of Translucency
Normally, to create the illusion of transparency against a single background is feat enough. In this image I "upped the ante," by adding white roses above an existing floral arrangement…
April 27, 2015
Flora Exhibit at Photo Oakland
Welcome the summer with PHOTO’s beautiful and curious new collection of plant imagery! The exhibition will run May 14 - June 20, 2015. I'll have a few pieces of my…
April 22, 2015
Flowers at a Restaurant
I photographed these orchids through translucent etched glass at the handsome Murray Circle Restaurant at the Cavallo Point Inn, part of Fort Baker in Sausalito, California. The location is right across…
April 19, 2015
We are not afraid of color
I photographed these flowers on my light box using the bright and sharp Zeiss Otus 85mm lens, then created a number of variations in Photoshop. The colors in flowers give me…
April 11, 2015
Tulips in a Glass Vase
To make this image, I placed the vase of tulips on a mirror, and lit the vase and flowers from behind with a standing light box. This is the same setup…
April 8, 2015
Echinacea
Last year I bought an Echinacea and planted it in a pot on the porch, assuming it would essentially be an annual. Somewhat to my surprise, it has come back…
April 2, 2015
New Iris Macros
I've been having fun with some photography of a kind I haven't done in a while: relatively straight macro photography of flowers. The photography is straightforward (as I explain below),…
March 30, 2015
An Amazing Amalgamation of Anemones
Over the past few days I've had some amazing tulips as well as an amalgamation of anemones to play with. I have to admit to some inspirational thoughts looking through…
March 22, 2015
When is a Harold Davis rose a Georgia O’Keeffe?
A rose is a rose is a rose, except when it is not. A Harold Davis rose photo is apparently a Georgia O'Keeffe rose painting when you search Google Images for…
March 20, 2015
Flowers of Spring’s Desires
Photographed Friday on my light box using my Nikon D810, Zeiss Otus 55mm f/1.4 at f/16 and ISO 64 on the tripod. Eight blended exposures at shutter speeds from 8…
March 15, 2015