Light Box Photography in Three Dimensions | Part I: Introduction and Live Photography | Harold Davis

[@Coolumbo]

Most excellent and beautiful.

[@gilldavies]

Thank you, Harold and family, for another fascinating video. I so enjoyed watching 'photographing flowers for transparency' and can't wait to try making images with my newly constructed light box. Really appreciate your time and effort in showing us how to set about it. Best wishes to you all!

[@Digitalfieldguide]

Thank you! So glad you made a light box!

[@sornberg]

Thanks again Harold. Great session. I especially enjoy the live sessions.

[@Digitalfieldguide]

Glad you like them!

[@janielawson6553]

I wish I had found you sooner! I am an X-ray Technologist, last spring I took some flowers to work and photographed them with my mammography machine. I struggled to edit them with PS for months. Some of them are now hanging in my office. I am now waiting for my first light pad to be delivered.

[@Digitalfieldguide]

Hi Janie, Perhaps you've seen some of my x-ray work at www.digitalfieldguide.com/galleries/x-ray-and-fusion-x-ray-photography and www.digitalfieldguide.com/faqs/x-ray-photos-of-flowers. Yes, working with Dicom files in PS is tricky. Have fun with your light pad! Best wishes, Harold

[@sabeenmapara3421]

Thank you so much for sharing this!

[@irinam6808]

This is amazing! Thank you!💙

[@Digitalfieldguide]

Irina glad you like it, and it is useful! Very best wishes, Harold

[@fandangofandango2022]

Harold Simply Wonderful.

[@plantman6245]

Thank you for posting these great webinars so enjoyable You mentioned you would normally light flowers from front as well..can You please briefly explain how? With camera flash perhaps and to side of flowers or directly front on? With diffuser? Would this frontal lighting allow you to use faster shutter speed and thus possibly eliminate need for tripod? Regards Isaac Mamott, Botanist, Sydney Australia 🌿

[@Digitalfieldguide]

Thanks Isaac for writing---Of course, there are many possible tools to use to front light. Sometimes I simply use sunlight when I can control it. But a direct flash is probably not a good idea for several reasons (primarily, unless you can turn the power way down, it will drown out the back light). In any case, to follow my technique, you will still need to use a tripod in order to sequence different exposures of the differing exposure values of the flowers, depending on the opacity. Very best wishes, Harold

[@30pinkpumpkin]

I was very confused because these aren't called light boxes in the UK, we call them light pads. Great tutorial - I'm learning loads. Thank you.

[@Digitalfieldguide]

Thanks @30pinkpumkin: yes, the terminology can be a little confusing because of course a "light box" is a modifier used in studio photography. Generally, with light box photography, a light pad refers to the newer LED-style devices, when you say "light box" it could mean that, or something more like a box, like the old slide sorting boxes I started out on. Glad you've enjoyed my video!

[@williamloutrel1538]

Webinar Chat had information about the Lightboxes used. Could you share that information here, as well? I take it the larger one is an “A1” and the second an “A2”? Not much on Amazon in the A1 size. Thanks - Bill

[@Digitalfieldguide]

Please see website FAQs: www.digitalfieldguide.com/faqs/faq-photographing-flowers-for-transparency

[@robynbuttsworth5590]

very inspiring, thankyou, my maiden name was Davis , do u have relatives in nsw Australia

[@Digitalfieldguide]

Robyn, you are very welcome. About the relatives in NSW Australia, I am a bit skeptical. I think "Davis" in Australia most likely indicates Welsh ancestry. My paternal ancestors were eastern Europeans displaced in the Holocaust, with a name change towards Anglicization in the immigration process. Although, that said, there were displacements of my relatives---those that survived---all over the world, and we have largely lost touch. My very best wishes, Harold