Sprinkler Light
I came across an explosion of light during an early-morning photo shoot at San Francisco Botanical Garden. I love arriving at a garden before dawn [...]
Using Light for Flower Photography
If you have a chance, plan your photography for early morning when the wind is quiet, flowers are fresh, and the light is sweet. Try to [...]
Avoiding Blue Light
I recently wrote a post (in Light in the Garden) extolling the virtues of shooting at dawn, Dawn's Early Light. Before dawn the light is [...]
Dawn’s Early Light
Light is certainly critical in all photography. For garden photography the magic hours tend to be the two first hours and the two last hours [...]
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 [...]
A simple lighting adjustment
I just finished writing the section about lights in the new Rose book. In hoping that the book will appeal to advanced photographers I included [...]
The Morning Walk
Every morning my dog, Kona, and I go for a walk on Cherry Hill which reaches about 800 feet from our backyard here in Novato, [...]
Changed Light
Recently, the folks at the new Light cameras, promoting how camera technology has changed, asked photographers how their work has changed; and it got me to thinking [...]
Learning to Read the Light
Photography is literally drawing with light, coming from the Greek word 'photos' meaning light and 'graphis' to draw. Tree fern - leaves etched by [...]