Category: 2013

• Mid-Century Moment: 1955 Chevy Bel Air

  I have never taken pictures of cars before because I was intimidated by the elaborate setups and traditional ways to photograph cars. You have to control shadow detail, highlight tonality, reflections, and color cast. This is a 1:24 scale model of a 1955 Chevrolet Bel Air. My partner inherited a huge collection of cars from…

  joshuathomaspugh

  July 5, 2013

  2013, Macro, Studio

  1955, 50’s, air, asheboro, bel, car, cars, chevrolet, chevy, green, joshua, mid-century, model, moment, nc, photography, pugh, thomas, yellow

• Focus Stacking: Hemerocallis fulva ‘Flore Pleno’

  I am having success overall with my focus stacking I believe and I photographed one of my orange lilies that are blooming right now. This is a stack of 6 images that were shot at 1:3 at f/45 and merged in Photoshop. I cut out just the flower in the image and then put it…

  joshuathomaspugh

  July 1, 2013

  2013, Macro, Plants/Gardens, Studio

  asheboro, daylily, flower, focus, Hemerocallis fulva ‘Flore Pleno’, joshua, lily, macro, nc, orange, photography, pretty, pugh, stack, thomas

• Brassolaeliocattleya.

  This is my new prized orchid plant. It is a Brassolaeliocattleya Leopard Waianae “Ching Hua”. Extremely attractive blooms with an incredible fragrance. I bought it a couple of weeks ago from my friend Linda at Seagrove Orchids. She has a fantastic greenhouse just for orchids and sometimes other exotic plants.

  joshuathomaspugh

  June 29, 2013

  2013, Plants/Gardens, Studio

  2013, beautiful, brassolaeliocattleya, china, chinese, ching, greenhouse, hua, joshua, leopard, orchid, orchids, photography, plant, pretty, pugh, spotted, thoams