digital photography: techniques: thoughts: photographs
I photographed this Helichrysum bracteatum (strawflower) blossom on my light box (far below), then inverted the image in LAB Color, and converted to monochromatic (directly below). I'm headed tomorrow to…
A little more than fourteen years ago, my daughter Katie Rose was born very prematurely. Today, Katie's Video Games are Actually Good for Your Brain has been selected to be…
It's fun to use flowers to create animistic shapes on the light box, like good-luck dragons and this "Butter-flower" shown below.
I'm excited to be headed back to Italy this autumn, and have been looking through my archives. What work have I done in Italy, and how can I make progress…
It's amazing what one can do with pasta stars, a light box, and LAB color. Dancing with the Pasta Stars was created using LAB in Photoshop from the version of…
Having been occupied by family matters lately, it is hard to make the time for flower photography. Work on a light box does not respond well to impatience. The time…
When you look at everyday, household objects with fresh eyes, it is possible to see their magic. For example, someone told me the image below (Jaws Inversion) looks like a…
In my fantasy, Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986) traveled shortly after the first world war from Texas where she taught drawing to bored college students to New York to meet with her…
As summer becomes full and the days of July rush by, the dahlias are in bloom. Each dalia is different, a unique world unto itself. Some of them remind me…
Artichokes are good to eat. They are a real treat. You peel the leaves to the "meat" inside, in a spiral motion that echoes the visual path in this great,…
We're very pleased to have shipped #17 (out of 25) of the edition of Botanique to a collector in Ohio (thank you!). The photo below shows the display print of Red…
As the official start to summer swings into gear, how wonderful to arrange a light box bouquet. The bouquet is anchored with two-week Iris (also called "Fortnight Lily," Dietes iridioides, a…
In the pre-dawn cool I walked around the house and down to our dahlia bed in the side yard. There was one perfect white blossom. I cropped it, and placed…
We'll be holding a full weekend Photographing Flowers for Transparency workshop Saturday August 6 - Sunday August 7, 2022 here on the east side of the San Francisco Bay. This…
Phyllis brought a Phalaenopsis ("moth orchid") home for a short visit to our sunny living room. Leaving the orchid in its decorative pot, I photographed the blossoms using a vertical…
I cut a stalk of Campanulas ("Canterbury Bells") from the garden. I laid the bunch gently on my light box for a sequence of high-key captures (below). Often, photography of…
As I've previously noted, I seem to spend a lot of time photographing underneath bridges. The beauty of the scene from the deck of a bridge is often pretty self-evident. On…
I've been experimenting with creating images that look a little like a wall of flowers one might see at a florist shop. From a set design viewpoint, an important challenge…