digital photography: techniques: thoughts: photographs
Photography is famously about "writing with light"---or rendering light. In fact, light is integral to photography. You can't photograph a physical object. You can only capture the light reflected or…
Yesterday, after photographing Multnomah Falls, I walked up the icy path to Benson Bridge. From this bridge, I climbed the numbered switchbacks to the top of Multnomah Falls. From the…
"Cold is the colour of crystal the snowlight That falls from the heavenly skies"---Annie Lennox Related image: White River Falls. Thanks to @estatik on Flickr.
On my long drive up eastern Oregon, shortly before I got to the Columbia Gorge, I passed White River Falls, shown in the photo. White River Falls State Park was…
This nine-image multiple exposure, combined in-camera another image in the same series, Rondo, reminds me of a living organism, or spiral shell such as the Nautilus.
About the image: This is an in-camera multiple exposure. The ten exposures were combined in the camera using auto-gain. The model was Amelia Simone, who was wearing the red underwear…
The Cymbidium orchid shown below in four variations photographed for transparency on a light box was to feature in its own drama of creative destruction: with the blossoms surgically taken…
A large print of my Lonely Islet was purchased for the collection of the international law firm Simpson Thacher. My print will hang in the offices of the appellate practice…
I photographed these Cymbidium orchid blossoms in a blue bowl placed on a black velvet background. Lighting was natural, ambient sunlight bounced off white boards and reflectors. Exposure and processing…
The title I've given this image, Totem and Taboo, is in part a reference to Sigmund Freud's collection of essays of the same name. Freud combined anthropology with concepts of…
Dead Tree, Seascape, and Sunset is an exercise in capturing comparative motion over the course of a fairly long exposure (ten seconds). The surf was rolling in below the bluff,…
www.asmp.org/strictlybusiness/2016/02/an-interview-with-pixsy-client-harold-davis/ Once I began putting my work up on the Web, it didn’t take me long to realize that I was on the horns of a very serious business dilemma.…
Curious about what's in my gear bag when I'm in the field? Check out this story from Zeiss! (Thanks Zeiss so much for the wonderful glass.)
This image of Tulips in a Vase on White derives its power from its apparent simplicity. In fact, behind the scenes, I constructed the image with a certain amount of calculated…
I've written an article now posted on the Pixsy blog about my technique for photographing flowers for transparency on a light box: What are the steps to mastering the process? Surprisingly,…
Originally published November 24, 2014. Editor's update: After publishing this post, I received a number of inquiries as to what I was doing traveling with "another woman" (Phyllis seems to have…
Originally published June 1, 2015. Editor's update: Phyllis eventually had to pay to have the couch hacked into pieces and hauled away. The response to the Craig's List ad quoted below…