I generally shy away from discussing my focus stacking technique as I feel that the images should stand on their own without understanding the magic that goes into creating them. There is nothing secretive about the approach and I’d like there to be more artistic exploration of the close-up world beyond the often beautifully captured pictures of plants and insects by practitioners of the technique. I described the approach last year in a post titled, Finding Inspiration in a
…Month: December 2018
Two of my favorite images have been selected to be included in the Rehoboth Art League’s 4th Annual Juried Photography Exhibition. The first image, Iron Age Tools #2, is a detail of a tool used by the late Bill Gichner, who was a well known blacksmith from Iron Age Antiques. The second image, Camellia, is one of the first flower images I created. This was an experimental image that included multiple computational techniques to deliver a painterly effect.
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Codd-Neck Bottles were invented by Hiram Codd in 1872 for the purpose of bottling carbonated drinks. These bottles enclose a marble and rubber gasket and were filled upside down. I picked up one of these bottles at a local sea glass festival during the summer and started shooting abstract details. I became intrigued
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