I really enjoy teaching macro photography at the Sawtooth School for Visual Arts! In our most recent class, we each took shots of various dried flowers in...
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Category Archives: Object Lighting
Lumen Print 4
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Lumen Print 3
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Lumen Print 2
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Lumen Print 1
Lumen printing uses sunlight as developer and (mostly) organic objects as subjects. Having recently acquired over 20 boxes of unexposed, expired photographic paper, I came back to...
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Remembering an Object Lighting Lesson
After several years, I still refer to my photography bibles (aka class notes). Thanks for this class, Kevin Eames!! ...
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Spreading Spores
After viewing the nectarine from several angles for so long, it was really no longer about the part that was rotting (even though it was still the centerpiece), but rather...
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Hurricane Warning!
Pretty gross, but also pretty fascinating shooting w/ the macro lens. ...
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Eye of the Storm
Mold spores surround the stem of a slowly rotting nectarine. This is definitely not “peach fuzz”!! Nectarines are a smooth-skinned peach of the family Rosaceae that is...
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Leadened
Black Bouquet – 16-image macro stack...
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Rusty Bronze
Dead, dark black leaves – macro stacking – 13 images. ...
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Prickly Creature
Dried, stringy moss, or some kind of dried out root?? This is approximately 2″ wide, 1″ tall. Using my Canon 30D camera with a 100mm Macro lens,...
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Coral Dipped in Bronze
A piece of sun-bleached, uniquely-shaped sea coral was placed on a shelf; this resulting canvas of four images was created using varying combinations of HDR toning....
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Bejeweled Fish…
… and a tropical beauty at that!...
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Today’s Special – A Bunch of Luck
On this day, within a timespan of 15 minutes, I found twenty-three 4-leaf clovers, plus a rare bonus – a 5-leaf clover – all in the same patch of grass....
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