I've relaunched my Digital Night website. It's greatly expanded, with tips, techniques, and geographic sections. This site is an archive of my stories about photographing the landscapes of the night.…
Golden Gate Moonrise, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. As the full moon rose behind the Golden Gate, I quit trying to photograph the moon beneath the bridge.…
Moon Shines Bright, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. On Saturday I knew the full rose moon was coming up at 9:29PM. I decided to try for some…
Tower of the Moon 2, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. As the rose moon rose, it lost its rose coloration, but lined up nicely with the south…
Rose Moon Rising, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Full summer moons toward the end of June are sometimes called "rose moons," and this one lives up to…
Hidden Beach, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Mark and I hiked out to Arch Rock. It was a crap shoot whether we'd be fogged out, but emerging…
Moon Shadow of Half Dome, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. I took this photograph during my vigil on the top of Half Dome at about 11:20PM. It's…
Photographers often ask me how to get the right exposure with night landscapes. It's a tricky topic. My experience is that the light meter in my dSLR is pretty much…
My Dad says he told a group of his friends that he just bought a $25,000 computer. Understand that these friends were a bunch of computer scientists. Everyone thought my…
Half Dome Ladder, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Back down from Glacier Point in the early predawn hours, I caught a few hours sleep and then started…
Half Dome by Starlight 1, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Last week I went to Yosemite. As my kids might say, this was an "opposites day" venture:…
Midnight Rambles, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. I took this photo of the view down Tenaya Canyon towards Half Dome shortly before midnight on June 21. I…
If you grant my premise that digital photography is an entirely new medium of expression, then you have to wonder about the prevalence of metaphors that use the techniques of…
Golden Gate in Summer, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. A great bank of fog has covered the Bay area, so it's a little hard to remember that…
Silicon Valley from Mission Peak, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This is a thirty second time exposure from the top of Mission Peak. It is looking down…
It all started when I pointed my digital camera into the void of night and was surprised by the results. In apparent darkness, there's plenty of "light" we cannot see…
The term bokeh is used to refer to blurring in a photograph. Good bokeh is smooth and pleasing, whereas bad bokeh produces a jagged and discordant effect. This may sound…
San Jose from Mission Peak, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Jack was kind enough to come with me for another night hike up the beast, Mission Peak.…