digital photography: techniques: thoughts: photographs
Heading into Grace Cathedral in San Francisco, my idea was to practice HDR photography on the vaulted ceiling of the church. I had done this once before in Grace Cathedral,…
I am proud of my online Photographing Flowers course at Craftsy.com, which by now has more than 500 students. The variety, exuberance and quality of the student projects shows that…
The first session of Mastering Creative Photoshop is sold out...and so many people have asked for another session. Here it is!!! The dates are Saturday May 31 - Sunday June 1,…
I lit a passion flower (passiflora) from the rear and left, so that the light reflected off the flower onto the neck of a glass bottle with a rather tall…
The temple flags shown in this image are along the steps leading up to the grand shrine of Kumano Hongu Taisha located in Tanabe, Japan on the Kii peninsula in…
As an exercise, and also to participate in a compendium of "best of" blogged photos, I've put together what I think are my best photos from 2013. This has been…
The two images shown in this blog story are both examples of monochromatic HDR photography. Each was shot using a bracketed exposure sequence. The exposures in each of the bracketed…
At a casual glance, this is a fairly simple selective focus image of lush white flowers in an autumn garden. Actually, there's more to it photographically than meets the eye.…
Negative space is often defined as the space around and between the subject of an image. From a formal design perspective, learning to see negative space helps one to visualize the…
A studio is a frame of mind, not a place. When I tell people that I am in my studio, it means to me that I am working as an…
As many times as I photograph roses I never have enough! There is always a different way to approach a rose, or any other flower for that matter. Verily, there…
At first glance, this image has been mistaken for an iPhone shot (after the pattern of the special effects iPhone photos in my iPhonographie de Paris). The banks of the…
Along the ancient Kumano kodo pilgrimage trail there is mostly the silence of the weather. Wind whistles through the trees and a fine mist falls drop by drop. It wasn't always…
The hot springs resort of Yunomine Onsen nestles in a valley basin in the Kii peninsula of Japan, where it has provided respite to weary trekkers on the Kumano kodo…
The three-story pagoda Seiganto-ji is part of the Kumano Sanzan temple complex in Nachi-san at the end of the Kumano kodo pilgrimage trail. This is a very special place, located near…
My friends at Craftsy write: "With the holiday season fast approaching, remind your followers that they can give the gift of making by gifting your Craftsy Flower Photography class!" It's…
At 6AM my iPhone alarm rang. I raised my head off the futon, pulled the screen aside, and peered out the window at a world of driving rain. Yunomine Onsen…