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Creative Garden Photography
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Creative Garden Photography

by Harold Davis
July 2020
Beginner
360 pages
8h
English
Rocky Nook
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Photography on Black

Low-key HDR photography on a black or dark background can be a very effective technique to create stunning imagery, particularly when a single blossom is the star.

This technique should not be confused with post-production LAB L-channel inversion (see pages 264270). However, when presented with an image of a flower on a black background, it may take a bit of analysis and thought to understand whether the image was, in fact, created via low-key HDR photography or in a post-production black-for-white swap.

To step back for a moment and consider photography on black, it’s easy to see that this is analogous to photography on white—except that we are interested in the dark, low-key dynamic values, rather than the white and high-key ...

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