by speterlewis@gmail.com | Apr 18, 2020 | Photography, Social Distancing
Each year, in all the temperate regions of the world, there is a night in spring when amphibians migrate en masse to their breeding grounds. Here in Maine, it’s usually mid to late April, and conditions must be perfect: the ground must be thawed, it must be over...
by speterlewis@gmail.com | Apr 17, 2020 | Photography, Social Distancing, Story behind the lens
One of the great challenges (and joys) of studio photography is controlling light. The word photography means “light drawing,” which I think is wonderful. In the studio, we can (and must) control light very precisely, creating mood and texture and...
by speterlewis@gmail.com | Apr 16, 2020 | Photography, Social Distancing
Okay, we’re back to the whole eggshell-as-brainless-monster theme. I’m totally on an egg kick right now. I just think they’re so anthropomorphic! This setup was actually pretty complicated, partly because of the leverage caused by the drooling...
by speterlewis@gmail.com | Apr 15, 2020 | Photography, Social Distancing
I was processing images of a birch polypore fungus the other day, in the usual way, when I discovered that a small worm/grub-like insect was crawling along the rim. So I turned the image into an abstract backlit eclipse. The bug is at far right, crawling upward (and...
by speterlewis@gmail.com | Apr 14, 2020 | Photography, Product, Social Distancing
This was a very simple and fun product shot. The bowl and the soup and the background all worked very well together, and the lighting was very simple (it typicall is for these shots). Oh, yeah, the egg… I find eggshells endlessly fascinating and quite...
by speterlewis@gmail.com | Apr 13, 2020 | Photography, Social Distancing
My wife and I went for a walk on our town park the day before the April 9 snowstorm. We just wanted to get out before things got nasty. April is like that. I found this stunning example of Fomitopsis betulina, the common Birch polypore, on a fallen Betula...
