Webinar with Harold Davis: Topaz As an Integral Part of Creative Post-Production Tuesday February 19, 2019 at 2PM PT (4PM CT), 45 minute presentation with 15 minutes for Q&A. The…
After my workshop in West Palm Beach, I had a morning to explore south Florida. I rented a car, and drove through scrub and pre-Everglades marsh inland to Lake Okeechobee---seemingly…
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.…
I'll be talking about my Photographing Flowers for Transparency work, showing images, and discussing the process at a free presentation at the North Berkeley Public Library Community Meeting Room on Thursday March…
Photograph Paris in April with Harold Davis (co-host Mark Brokering), April 27-May 5, 2019; explore and photograph the City of Light; Destination Photography Workshop includes several excursions, including after-hours photography…
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…
This giant Ficus tree, Ficus macrophyllia, dominates one corner of Ventura's Plaza Park. It was planted in 1874, and you can see how big it is by comparing the size…
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'm spending next week near Santa Barbara making a new video course. This one is about the Creative Use of LAB Color in Photoshop. I've been scripting and rehearsing the…
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…