Rhododendron Photo Book (2)
A Darts Hill, Artist in Residence sponsored project. I am continuing to collect and edit photos for this project. The “beautiful garden” pictures are a little harder to get than …
Rhododendron Photo Book
I am compiling and shooting some new rhododendron pictures in preparation for an Artist Residency at Darts Hill. For this project, I will be turning a series of rhododendron pictures …
Notes from Garden Photography Workshop
I added some of the notes from a recent garden photography workshop to this blog in the posts listed below. I tried to keep the post topics short and to …
Tripod, Tripod, Tripod
Lug it. Embrace it. Carry it. Use a tripod. My pictures shot to the next level once I started using a tripod. This was one of the tips I got …
Encouragement and Support
Seek out other people who will encourage and help you to grow in photography and in art. Seeing the ongoing disciplined work of Elizabeth Carefoot and other artist friends keep …
Embrace Post Processing
If you do not already do your own post processing of digital photos – learn to do it. There are many tutorials available on the internet. In digital photography, post …
Basic Post Production Work Flow
RAW conversion – I re-balance the entire photo in Adobe Bridge. I assess the color balance and individual colors and edit color here (or in Photoshop). Save the image as …
Friends and Lovers – color theory
“Color forms its own composition.” The above quote is from talented portrait photographer Gabor Gasztonyi, click on the link below to see examples of her work: https://www.gaborphotography.com/ Analogous colors are …