Pale Garden
From our garden I cut clematis, clivia, and iris. The tulips were store-bought. I assembled a composition to echo Flowers of Spring's Desire and Poppies and Mallows, but using a…
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April 2, 2019
digital photography: techniques: thoughts: photographs
Our side door
We generally prefer folks use our front door, where there is a nice sheltered porch for Amazon to leave their near-constant droppings. But of course if you are a friend…
March 31, 2019
Explorations, projects, digital collages, constructions, and more
I confess: sometimes I lose track of my own work. Lately---over the past year or so---I've been working on related themes, groupings of images that are tightly, or loosely, linked.…
February 25, 2019
Curves Ahead
Starting with sunlight coming through vessels with color, I pared down my abstractions. But lately we have been under a river of rain. Sunlight is scarce. But it doesn't take…
February 16, 2019
Free Topaz Webinar with Harold Davis on Tuesday Feb 19
Webinar with Harold Davis: Topaz As an Integral Part of Creative Post-Production Tuesday February 19, 2019 at 2PM PT (4PM CT), 45 minute presentation with 15 minutes for Q&A. The…
February 15, 2019
Cutting Corners
In Mounts Botanical Gardens of Palm Beach County, Florida an impressive exhibit of an installation by stick-work artist Patrick Dougherty was showcased when I visited recently. I'm always interested in doors,…
February 12, 2019
Looking down the frond—Been down so long it looks like up to me!
What you may find a little different about this photo of a palm frond is the viewpoint: my macro lens is looking straight down the frond, so that it looks…
February 10, 2019
A point of information, not a point of honor
The triptych of photos shown in this story were made in my camera, not in post-production, with only small tweaks for slight retouching, exposure, and minor saturation adjustments. I say…
February 4, 2019
Can you see color in black & white?
A client recently asked me to submit a series of monochromatic images of flowers. This happened after the client saw the black and white image of a begonia, shown below.…
February 1, 2019
Approaching Indigo
The early use of "indigo" referred to indigo dye made from Indigofera tinctoria and related species, and not specifically to a color. In the 1660s, Isaac Newton bought a pair of prisms…
January 29, 2019
Hitting the Flickr Explore Jackpot with Crepuscular Coast
My monochromatic image Crepuscular Coast (shown above) hit Flickr Explore yesterday. This is a reprocessed version of the original image, which I originally photographed, processed, and posted in October 2018…
January 24, 2019
Review: A New Lens for Harold (the Irix 150mm “Dragonfly” macro)
I photographed these close-ups of flower petals (image above: an Iris; image below: the petals of a Gerbera from behind) with a new lens, the Irix 150mm f/2.8 "Dragonfly" telephoto…
January 22, 2019
Creative LAB Color Collage
This is a collage of LAB channel color adjustments, developed for my Creative LAB Color in Photoshop course for Lynda.com in LinkedIn Learning. To really get the idea, click here…
January 19, 2019
Pixel Pie
When I was a kid growing up in the east they used to have "snow days"---when school was called on account of snow. You went back to bed, covered your…
January 16, 2019
Ventura Pier and Dark Sea
It rained all day as I was recording, but towards late afternoon there was a break in the weather. I positioned myself on the roof of a parking garage, and…
January 14, 2019
Harold’s LAB Color Action: New Version Available
I am feeling smug that I still have some decent computer skills. The last time I updated this Photoshop Action (a kind of macro using Photoshop's internal scripting language) was…
January 11, 2019