Yosemite Valley from Half Dome
Yosemite Valley from Half Dome, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This is a 9 1/2 minute exposure taken from the top of Half Dome a little after…
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July 5, 2007
digital photography: techniques: thoughts: photographs
Digital Night by Harold Davis: Version 2
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.…
July 4, 2007
Golden Gate Moonrise
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.…
July 3, 2007
Moon Shines Bright
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…
July 2, 2007
Towers of the Moon
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…
July 1, 2007
Rose Moon Rising
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…
June 30, 2007
Hidden Beach
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…
June 29, 2007
Moon Shadow of Half Dome
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…
June 28, 2007
Exposing the Night Landscape
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…
June 28, 2007
Scanning the Iris
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…
June 27, 2007
Snakes and Ladders
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…
June 26, 2007
Half Dome by Starlight
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:…
June 25, 2007
Midnight Rambles
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…
June 23, 2007
Myths, Metaphors, and Digital Photography
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…
June 22, 2007
Golden Gate in Summer
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…
June 16, 2007
Beauty in the Belly of the Beast
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…
June 14, 2007
Digital Night Website
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…
June 14, 2007
Bokeh and the Zen of Blur
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…
June 13, 2007