Monthly Archives: April 2019

Some scenes call for a fisheye and fun!

I spent a wonderful sunny afternoon photographing with my friend Jim on the slopes of Mt Diablo. The sky was blue with high-flying clouds, the slopes were green and alive with flowers. On the trail, the California Oak trees towered above. Some scenes just call for a fisheye lens.

California Oak © Harold Davis

California Oak BW © Harold Davis

It’s often not realized that an iPhone transfer can be used bidirectionally if you want to use one of the creative iPhone apps on an image made with a “big boy” camera.

To make the “for fun” variations below, I copied the color fisheye image (shot with my Nikon D850 and the 8-15mm Nikkor fisheye at 8mm for the circular effect) onto my iPhone. The effects were generated using the Fancy Filters category of the Photo Lab app.

Tree Drops © Harold davis

Kaleidoscope © Harold Davis

Posted in iPhone

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 somewhat different color palette.

Pale Garden © Harold Davis

The LAB color L-channel inversion on black followed (for information on how to do this, see my Creative LAB Color course).

Pale Garden on Black © Harold Davis

To learn about my light box techniques with flowers, see my FAQ Photographing Flowers for Transparency. We also have one place still open in the hands-on workshop on the topic scheduled for June 2019.

Posted in Flowers, Photography