Gray Card and White Balance
Whenever I am on a commercial flower shoot I use a gray card to help me render the flower color correctly. It is a very [...]
Magnolia Exposure – Plus and Minus
Photographing trees is always a challenge. Trying to find a point of view to see the whole tree and separating it from its surroundings to [...]
Photographing Rose Bouquets
Photographing Rose Bouquets is excerpted from the forthcoming PhotoBotanic Guide to Photographing Roses. Discounts on the preorder page. Rose bouquet with English roses 'L.D.Braithwaite' [...]
Advanced Techniques for Photographing Roses
3 Roses as Photobotanic Illustrations - 'Belle of Portugal' 'Mme Isaac Pereire'; 'Apple Blossom' Let's go beyond the basics of photographing roses. In the [...]
Branches in the Sky
This is the time of year to see trees – to really see them, in their naked glory. I love to see the branch patterns [...]
Book Tour Update and Photo Contest
Photo tips are spreading far beyond these walls through the magic of the internet. The blog tour for my e-books is now in its second [...]
Book Tour – Blog Style
Any author who publishes a new book wants to arrange a book tour, and usually the publisher helps out with the planning and travel expenses. [...]
Photographing Wildflowers
Long before I ever took a photograph of any plant or flower, I loved botanic illustrations. In college I worked in a framing shop that [...]
A Macro Focus Stack – Gilia
I love the moody single point of focus shots in macro photography. They artfully take advantage of narrow focus, emphasizing one detail; but I also love [...]
Photographing Roses
Unlike most garden photos, macro shots can be shot in the bright light of a sunny day. Indeed, to get good depth of field, bright [...]