This is an arrangement of Peonies, Hydrangeas, and Campanulas---mainly Peonies---arranged on my lightbox and shot straight down in pieces. Each piece was shot using high-key HDR, with ten bracketed exposures.…
I never know when that moment of revelation is going to strike. It is kind of like an "aha" feeling---but a little bit different, both more and less. I'm plodding…
At this time of year some flowers are too special not to photograph. In that spirit, I've been having a great time the last few days photographing peonies. These flowers…
I noticed some white "Iceberg" roses growing in a corner of my garden. Their lovely white-on-white shapes truly appealed to me, but I knew all the whiteness would cause difficulties…
The tulips were strongly backlit by the sun. The flowers were also swaying to and fro in a swift breeze. With my 200mm telephoto macro lens mounted on a tripod…
Like my Star Magnolia Panorama, I shot these Clematis flowers using a lightbox as the background. The image was shot in three pieces, each piece an HDR blend of six…
To create this image of a Star Magnolia, I brought some branches into my studio and arranged them on my lightbox. I shot the images in three panels using HDR…
It's hard not to love sunflowers. Sunflowers are a sunny flower. It's in the name, and also in the big, yellow, platter-sized flowers. They are artistic and often painted by…
Traditionally, when daffodils bloom it is a harbinger of spring. In a famous poem, William Wordsworth described a group of daffodils encountered on a walk with his sister in England's Lake District this…
Most photographers have bucket lists of things they'd like to photograph before they die. Flowering quince---because of the lushness of the blossoms contrasted with the sparseness of the stems--has long…
I've had a little time lately to shoot more flowers on white. These two floral arrangements feature orchids---buying them for photography seemed a little expensive at the time, but in…
Cherry Dance is manifestly a digital art creation. This collage combines a photo of blossoms on a cherry branch with two flat-bed scans of paper---using Photoshop to create a whole that resembles…
To create these images, I arranged flowers on a lightbox that was proportionally much wider than it was tall. Next, I shot straight down with a macro lens, bracketing for…
The Paperwhite, Narcissus papyraceus, is a small white flower related to the Daffodil. Grown from a bulb, the plant is originally from the Mediterranean basin. It's commonly thought of as…
My image, Intricate Detail of Nature's Perfection (shown above), was a winner in the 2011 North American Nature Photography Association (NANPA) contest. Today (October 24, 2011) Intricate Detail graces the…
Possibly I am obsessed. The same set of shooting and post-production techniques that work to make imagery of glassware look something like antique drawings also work on ferns and seed…
How fine it is to take advantage of a light rain, and photograph waterdrops caught in a spider web! A small, delicate flower, an anemone, is behind the web and…
Just a brief note to say that Photographing Flowers: Exploring Macro Worlds with Harold Davis, published by Focal Press, is now shipping and available from Amazon and Barnes & Nobles.…