X-Ray Floral Medley
Working with Dr Julian Kopke, I laid out this x-ray composition on a sheet of plexiglass above the sensor. The results you see are actually two x-rays combined, because there…
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April 25, 2019
Sunflower Mandala
The Peruvian lily (botanically alstroemeria), or "Lily of the Incas," was once limited to two small ranges in South America, one blooming in the winter (Chile), and one in the…
April 17, 2019
What are these tulip photos about?
An important question when looking at a photo is, What is this photo about? In the case of an image of a single flower blossom, likely candidates depend where the image is…
April 6, 2019
Pale Garden
From our garden I cut clematis, clivia, and iris. The tulips were store-bought. I assembled a composition to echo Flowers of Spring's Desire and Poppies and Mallows, but using a…
April 2, 2019
Can you see color in black & white?
A client recently asked me to submit a series of monochromatic images of flowers. This happened after the client saw the black and white image of a begonia, shown below.…
February 1, 2019
Review: A New Lens for Harold (the Irix 150mm “Dragonfly” macro)
I photographed these close-ups of flower petals (image above: an Iris; image below: the petals of a Gerbera from behind) with a new lens, the Irix 150mm f/2.8 "Dragonfly" telephoto…
January 22, 2019
A Tale of Three Flower Workshops
I am giving three flower-related photography workshops in 2019. I have been asked a number of times how these workshops differ, and how they overlap---so I'd like to make things…
January 2, 2019
Star Gazer Lily
The Star Gazer Lily is more correctly StarGazer Lily or Lillium 'StarGazer', with "StarGazer" crammed together in one word. This Asiatic Lily is a fairly recent hybridization (circa 1974) of…
December 20, 2018
Mandalas
A mandala is a circular pattern that in spiritual usage---principally in Hinduism and Buddhism---represents the universe. More secularly (but still with a soupçon of spirituality), the pattern of a mandala…
October 15, 2018
Bird of Paradise X-Ray
This is an x-ray photograph of a Strelitzia reginae, commonly known as the Bird of Paradise flower. More: X-Ray and Fusion X-Ray Gallery; FAQ: X-Ray Photos of Flowers; X-Ray Photography and…
September 27, 2018
X-Ray Photography and the Inner Form of Beauty
The process of making these x-ray images of flowers and shells is more like making a photogram---what Man Ray called a rayograph---than it is like using a conventional camera. The flowers…
September 17, 2018
X-Ray and “Fusion” X-Ray Images of Flowers
Here are some (more) x-rays and fusion x-rays of flowers. Fusion x-rays use post-production to combine "straight" x-rays with light box images of the same composition. For background information on…
August 30, 2018
Dahlia Fusion X-Rays and Light Box Photos
This Dahlia was photographed on a light box for transparency, then captured via x-ray photography. The two capture techniques were combined in Photoshop. In the upper version, there is also…
August 20, 2018
Sunflower X-Ray Fusion
This is a fusion of an x-ray and a light box high-key HDR sequence, using a medical x-ray machine and photographed on a light box. My friend Dr Julian Koepke…
August 15, 2018
Maine Flowers
This was an in-class light box demo, using flowers that my wonderful workshop participants scavenged from the grounds of Maine Media Workshops.
August 8, 2018
Gardens of Maine
So far, this is a wonderful Garden Photography workshop despite the rather overpowering heat and humidity (a bit unexpected on the coast of Maine, even in August). There are fourteen…
August 8, 2018
The Art of Photographing Flowers for Transparency: Harold Davis at B&H in New York (Aug 13, 2018)
I'll be presenting The Art of Photographing Flowers for Transparency on Monday August 13, 2018 at the B&H Photo Event Space, 420 Ninth Avenue, in New York City from 1-3…
July 18, 2018
Papaver Poppy Pods Gone to Seed
When Papavers go to seed, they produce pods that hold the seeds. You can scrape out the pod to harvest the seeds. When one puts a clump of these seeds…
July 11, 2018