People speak of “warm” lighting, referring to light colored from the orange/red end of the spectrum. Technically, that is lower temperature light. Color temperature is measured in degrees Kelvin, or absolute degrees. The temperatures describe the color a piece of pure carbon will emit at that temperature and those familiar with fire [...]
Posts Tagged ‘animals’
Moth
What first caught my eye was the moth’s utter whiteness against the blue water of the pool. I had only to step to the edge to frame its white flutter against the deep, featureless blue of three meters of water reflecting cloudless summer sky. Even as I pulled my camera from my pocket [...]
Mantis
This was one of my most successful insect photos, done at one stage of my quest for miniature subject matter. I had done bees and various beetles, and would move on to flies’ eyes and mosquito’s legs, but the mantis intrigued me for a long while. I was drawn to it for its [...]
Tyger Type
I was on a tropical beach for a week, alone with six young bikini models, a female assistant and a female art director. We all lived in small huts near the beach–a brand new tourist resort happy to accommodate us free in exchange for the publicity in an upscale spring catalog mailed to over [...]