The Photoshop Darkroom—new Harold Davis book
If you haven't seen much of me lately, and if my blog posts have seemed a bit thin, it's because I've been getting my new book The Photoshop Darkroom: Creative…
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June 4, 2009
digital photography: techniques: thoughts: photographs
Surf, Kirby Cove
Surf, Kirby Cove, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. On a recent overcast evening, with my guest from Finland, on a bluff above Kirby Cove, I waited for…
June 3, 2009
Harold Davis Workshop Updates
It was a dark and stormy night. Actually, it was a San Francisco fogbound night. I was out shooting with a guest from Finland. The fear was that the low…
June 2, 2009
Pagoda of Poppies
Pagoda of Poppies, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Briefly noted: I used my 200mm f/4 telephoto macro lens to focus on the more distant poppies while letting…
June 1, 2009
Wheels Within
Wheels Within, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger and even bigger. This is a wire-spoke wheel of a classic Jaguar that I have manipulated into an abstraction in…
June 1, 2009
Variegated Gladiolas
Variegated Gladiolas, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. There's a lovely clump of variegated gladolias in the garden. Partly shaded by a climbing rose, water drops cling to…
May 28, 2009
Papaver Drops
Papaver Drops, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. In the garden, water drops hang from a poppy bud, swinging at the end of its stem. Reflected in the…
May 27, 2009
Expecting the Unexpected
Fiber Optik, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Expecting the Unexpected, the first in my series of articles on Becoming a More Creative Photographer, is now up on…
May 26, 2009
Poppy Core
Poppy Core, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. I photographed this poppy core handheld in my garden in the late afternoon. I used my 100mm macro lens at…
May 24, 2009
Wheels within Wheels
Wheels within Wheels, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. I tend to like to photograph flowers deliberately with my camera on a tripod, stopped down for lots of…
May 23, 2009
Pinhole
Pinhole, photo by Harold Davis. I took this photo of the Golden Gate with the pinhole plate attachment that is part of the Lensbaby Composer Optic Swap System. The effective…
May 23, 2009
Backside
Backside, photo by Harold Davis. Poppy backside transparent in the morning sun: nature's stained glass.
May 21, 2009
Poppy Duet
Poppy Duet, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. I cut these poppies from my garden and photographed them on a lightbox. I used my 85mm PC macro lens…
May 19, 2009
1959 Jaguar XK150
1959 Jaguar XK150, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. I was lucky the other day to get to photograph Victor Garlin's magnificent vintage 1959 Jaguar XK150 Convertible. I'm…
May 18, 2009
Storm Surge
Storm Surge, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This photo composite comes from LAB inversions of a channel of Poppy Medley, LAB inversion of a channel of Breaking…
May 17, 2009
Absence of Color
White Tulips, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. I photographed these white tulips in a crystal vase with a Lensbaby Composer. I shot it in RAW, and (obviously)…
May 16, 2009
Poppies en Masse
Poppies on Black, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. I created the image of poppies on black by inverting the L (Luminance) channel of the white version (below)…
May 14, 2009
Calypso Orchids
Calypso Orchid, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. In mid-April the Calypso Orchid grows wild on the forested slopes of Mount Tamalpais. I photographed these Calypso Orchids near…
May 12, 2009