Lighting Surprises
How many times have you heard that the photographer’s ‘golden hours’ for shooting are the first hour after sunrise and the last hour before sunset? No matter where you are or what you are shooting, this light presents more opportunities than any other time of the day for those ‘AHHHHH’ images. Am I saying that [...]
Naples Sunset
Every town on the water with a long pier or good viewing area facing West seems to have a ‘happening’ – crowds that gather every night to see beautiful sunsets. Naples, Florida is no exception. In fact, at the Saturday art show in town, every photographer had at least one print of the Naples Pier [...]
Color to Match
Linda placed some poinsettias around the house for the holidays. One sunny but cold day, I decided to shoot some of the plants in order to keep cabin fever at bay. Three of the best plants were in the sunroom backlit with the early morning light. I set up the 70-200 zoom and clicked off [...]
Updates & News
It is close to the end of the year and we have made some changes to the blog. We replaced the ink spots in the banner at the top with some of our images. If you still see ink spots, go to your web browser and under the drop down menu, either select refresh or [...]
Digital , Digital , Digital
We finished up (until further notice) all the projects our landscape architects and designers assigned us this season. As I was reviewing the images I realized that many would not have been attempted or even possible if we were still shooting film. For example, when we have a swiming pool involved, we had to get [...]
Book Signings, Lectures & Workshops
Our teaching/lecture/book signing schedule has increased to ten programs from April to October this year. We knew that the publication of the Macro book would result in more appearances and that we would have to create new multimedia programs. In anticipation of building new programs, we bought the rights for new and better music. Then, [...]
Highlights & Shadows
When film ruled the camera world, direct sunlight could rob a flower of its color and vitality on the final image. Film wasn’t able to handle the extreme contrast between sun highlights and the shadows. To overcome this fault, it was common practice to use a diffuser to soften the harsh sunlight on blossoms. In [...]
Look Ma No hands!!!!
I captured this image of potato vine leaves in 2005. It is actually one leaf in the midst of many. Getting all the leaves in the frame sharp was impossible. As John Shaw replied to a student (not me) over 25 years ago, who wanted to use Kodachrome 25 and get everything sharp front to [...]