A Sense of Scale
View this photo larger. Read the back story featuring this image. When a photo is about pattern, the thrill of composition can come from a dissonance in size. Is the…
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January 14, 2008
digital photography: techniques: thoughts: photographs
Stadium
Stadium, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This is a photo of the seating at UC Berkeley's Memorial Stadium, notorious as the home of the California Golden Bears…
January 13, 2008
Petals
Petals, image by Harold Davis. View this image larger. We were proofing a 176 page book--Light and Exposure for Digital Photographers from O'Reilly--on our Epson 4800 printer using rolls of…
January 13, 2008
Noise As a Historical Artifact
In my spring release from O'Reilly Light & Exposure for Digital Photographers, I show that image noise can be used creatively. This material is in the ISO and Noise chapter.…
January 12, 2008
From Reflections to Abstractions
I sometimes wonder how I end up with images that are elaborate photo composites, having more visually in common with paintings than photographs. This images are born of photographic parents…
January 9, 2008
Active D-Lighting on the Dipsea Trail
Dipsea Trail, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. After several days of savage rain, with violent wind and pelting water that the winter Pacific storms bring, Julian and…
January 7, 2008
Crepuscular Shadow
Crepuscular Shadow, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This is a photo from my files. I took it in November, 2005 from a sailboat below the Golden Gate…
January 4, 2008
Hellebore on Black
Hellebore on Black, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Mike said he wanted to learn a little more about how I post-processed photos. So he drove down the…
January 3, 2008
Among the Anthers
Among the Anthers, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. An anther combines the stamen of a flower with the filament (the green stalk holding the anthers up in…
January 2, 2008
Stamen
Stamen, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This is the stamen of a white asiatic lily, photographed up close and very personal. [Nikon D300, 200mm f/4 macro lens…
January 2, 2008
Almost Night
Almost Night, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This is a thirty second, lens-wide-open photo of the Golden Gate with night fast approaching, taken on New Years Eve,…
January 1, 2008
Variations
Tower of Babel - Blue Variation, image by Harold Davis. View this image larger. These are variations--in blue tones above, and in pink below--based upon Tower of Babel. View this…
January 1, 2008
Tower of Babel
Tower of Babel, Photoshop collage by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This is a Photoshop collage based on Persistence of Reflections and More Oakland Reflections. I think it is…
December 31, 2007
More Oakland Reflections
Oakland Reflections II, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Here's another photo in my series of reflections from downtown Oakland.
December 31, 2007
Design of Rain Drops
Rain Drops on Poinsetta, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. The other day it was raining, but bright. I snapped these photos of rain drops on the poinsetta…
December 31, 2007
Bay Leaves
Bay Leaves, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. With this photogram of bay leaves, I wish you and yours a taste-filled and happy New Year!
December 30, 2007
Snow Peas
Snow Peas on Black, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. These snow peas started on white (below) and ended up manipulated for effect on black (above). View this…
December 30, 2007
’Shrooms
Shitake Mushrooms, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. I blasted light through these shitake mushrooms, photographed the group from above. In Photoshop, I inverted the photo to get…
December 29, 2007