digital photography: techniques: thoughts: photographs
In Mounts Botanical Gardens of Palm Beach County, Florida an impressive exhibit of an installation by stick-work artist Patrick Dougherty was showcased when I visited recently. I'm always interested in doors,…
What you may find a little different about this photo of a palm frond is the viewpoint: my macro lens is looking straight down the frond, so that it looks…
The triptych of photos shown in this story were made in my camera, not in post-production, with only small tweaks for slight retouching, exposure, and minor saturation adjustments. I say…
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.…
The early use of "indigo" referred to indigo dye made from Indigofera tinctoria and related species, and not specifically to a color. In the 1660s, Isaac Newton bought a pair of prisms…
My monochromatic image Crepuscular Coast (shown above) hit Flickr Explore yesterday. This is a reprocessed version of the original image, which I originally photographed, processed, and posted in October 2018…
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…
This is a collage of LAB channel color adjustments, developed for my Creative LAB Color in Photoshop course for Lynda.com in LinkedIn Learning. To really get the idea, click here…
When I was a kid growing up in the east they used to have "snow days"---when school was called on account of snow. You went back to bed, covered your…
It rained all day as I was recording, but towards late afternoon there was a break in the weather. I positioned myself on the roof of a parking garage, and…
I am feeling smug that I still have some decent computer skills. The last time I updated this Photoshop Action (a kind of macro using Photoshop's internal scripting language) was…
I'm using this image as one of the starting examples for the new course I am recording next week on working with creative LAB color in Photoshop. Click here for…
The marble languidly perches on the cornice of the volumes of the collected New Yorker cartoons, high above the carpet. "Marble, don't jump, " I cry, as I spring into…
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…
In 2019 I am looking forward to another exciting year, with travel, creative projects, books to deliver, more online courses, and workshops. If you are interested in my workshops, I…
The coming of a new year brings reflections on the year that has past, thoughts appropriate to the last day or first day of a year, and ideas about new…
My favorite comment on this series of images, on #3, found over on Instagram: "I've sat here a long time looking at this!"
For the past few days of the break between Christmas and New Years, I have been playing with light. Of course, the word photography is derived from "writing with light"---and…