Floral Tapestry Panel
This is a panel in a "floral tapestry"---shot in several pieces using a lightbox as the background, then stitched together as a panorama. Related image and story: Making a Floral…
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September 23, 2011
Go van Gogh: August print offer from Harold Davis
Go van Gogh is an unusual image of a sunflower in the swirling style of Vincent van Gogh presented against a starry night sky. The image makes a great large…
August 2, 2011
Making a Floral HDR Panorama
This is a floral HDR panorama, meaning I shot it in two horizontal pieces planning to stitch the pieces together. The logistics of this were somewhat complex---as with any HDR…
July 26, 2011
Mallow into Fabric
Briefly noted: Photographing this mallow blossom unfurling, I was reminded of fabric. Ignoring issues of scale and context, this flower could be the bottom portion of an elaborate and stylish…
July 21, 2011
Opium Poppies
I am very excited that a number of my pieces in the style of this image of Papaver somniferum have been accepted into the publishing program at the World Art…
July 15, 2011
Visual Make-Believe
In a previous story, I noted the importance of looking behind one. Commentators added the great suggestions of looking up and down as well. A corollary to having the kind…
July 9, 2011
Flowers in a Green Vase
I enjoyed photographing these flowers in a green vase as much for rendering the textures and colors of the vase and table as the flowers! The vase contains safflowers and…
June 30, 2011
Orchid
I shot this orchid on our front porch using a wood log as the background. It was late afternoon---or early evening---and I shot the flowers in deep shade. As I…
June 24, 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
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
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
Gesture
Some viewers of photography are impressed with the effort that goes into an image. For example, the many steps that go into the photography and post-processing of an image like…
May 28, 2011
Creating Textured Backgrounds: Cherry Branch
For an art publication project I was recently asked to put some of my floral images with white backgrounds onto textured backgrounds. For example, here's the original version of the…
May 26, 2011
Papaver and Campanula
For a special project, I started with a high-key photo of poppies and bellflowers (Papaver and Campanula). I created the background by scanning and digitally combining two pieces of papyrus…
May 24, 2011
Greek Poppies
I'd been searched around for some bright red Greek poppies to photograph, and over the weekend we went to Annie's Annuals & Perennials in Richmond to see if we could…
May 24, 2011