Oculus in Crystal and Optical Sidekick
I was fooling around the other day with photographing glassware and loose (unmounted) lenses on my light box. The images are inverted in LAB. With one of the glasses, I…
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January 5, 2017
digital photography: techniques: thoughts: photographs
Last Light
As the last light of day touches the sea-kissed cliffs, it is important to keep in mind that although night may follow day, day also follows night. Be of good…
January 1, 2017
Big Sur Coast from Bixby Bridge Overlook
As sunset turns to dusk, and dusk to night, colors linger on the towering westward-facing Pacific cliffs of the Big Sur peninsula. Long after the landscape is a murky, dark…
December 30, 2016
Night Vision Exhibition at the Weston Gallery
Yesterday I made a photographic trip to the Big Sur coast. It was a spectacular day for photography, and some images will no doubt follow in the due fullness of…
December 29, 2016
Orchids in a Blue Bowl © Harold Davis
My Best of 2016
2016 is a year of the fire monkey. This is by way of saying that one should rightfully have expected the unexpected. The monkey is a trickster, and not always…
December 15, 2016
Floral Tondo
Tondo is a Renaissance term for a circular painting. To create my floral tondo, I started with a circular pattern on my light box. I arranged an array of petals---mostly…
December 14, 2016
Five Minute Wave Exposures
In the practice of modern photography, an exposure as long as five minutes duration during daytime hours seems like eternity. This is particularly true in the context of the raging…
December 12, 2016
Calligraphy of Flowers
I am a great fan of artistic calligraphy, particularly as seen in Japan and in historic Islamic cultures. So when I arranged these flowers on my light box I tried…
December 11, 2016
Pastels
This is the box of pastels that Katie Rose loves to use to make her art. You can see she uses the pastels hard, but treats them with great care,…
December 1, 2016
Upcoming Flower Photography Workshops with Harold Davis
I'm very pleased and excited to be leading a sold-out session of Photographing Flowers for Transparency next weekend here in Berkeley, CA. If this topic interests you, we are running…
November 27, 2016
Vida and Shopvida: Annals of Deceptive Business Models
Being a Professional Artist Means Business As a successful professional artist and photographer—and, not entirely coincidentally, a business person—I am aware that sometimes you have to spend money to make…
November 4, 2016
Romantic Landscapes
There's nothing I like better than to capture romantic landscapes. Of course, any landscape can be romantic in the right light, and almost any landscape can be grim in harsh…
November 3, 2016
Phalaenopsis Orchid
This one is more colorful than the white-on-white Phalaenopsis I photographed yesterday!
November 2, 2016
Phalaenopsis
Nice to be back to photographing flowers on my light box after so many adventures in the field...starting with this orchid blossom!
November 1, 2016