Entries tagged with “exposure” from O'Reilly Digital Media Blog

This is a photograph of Bodie Mercantile, the old general store in the ghost town of Bodie. In creating this image, I wanted to be very sure that I exposed the scene in such a way that it looked like night. In other words, if you open an exposure up enough, no matter how dim the lighting is, you risk...

This is a photo taken looking straight up one of the smaller, back staircases at the Marin Center, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. The results are almost abstract: I don't think one is quite sure what one is looking at. There's very little Photoshop work here, just a bit of adjustment to compensate for the mixed-color-temperature light environment. Wright Stairs,...

This is a photo of a Papaver rhoeas 'Falling in Love,' a double variety of Papaver rhoeas, a kind of poppy. I cut a flower off the profusion of these poppies in our garden, and photographed this flower indoors. I put the flower in a glass flute to keep it upright, and placed the flute on a black velvet background....

I photographed this interesting mixed Lily bouquet on black velvet, with natural daylight and a tungsten spot. As always in these situations, it pays to "under expose" the photo for a proper "creative" exposure---so the flowers become more saturated and the black background goes truly black. Creative exposures are explained in Light & Exposure for Digital Photographers, pages 118-121. Asiatic...

I'm really excited to have three photography books coming out in the next few months. These are very different books. The commonality is that each of the three books is illustrated with my photos, and that I've written the text as well. Here's a quick description of my books, along with the book covers. In the due fullness of time,...