digital photography: techniques: thoughts: photographs
Yesterday I photographed my dahlias on a literal table (the term "table-top photography" can sometimes be a bit figurative), using sunlight, a telephoto macro lens, and a low-to-the-ground tripod to…
The Rockland, Maine breakwater is a loosely laid wall of large granite rocks that protects Rockland harbor, and stretches about a mile out to a lighthouse. The photo below shows…
The observatory at the top of the bridge across the Penobscot Narrows bills itself as the highest bridge observatory in the world. Be that as it may, on a rainy…
The long exposure motion blur in this image from the back of a Maine State Ferry makes the image general and dram-like. The departure could be from many places, with…
Today I took my workshop class on a field trip to Isleboro, a short ferry ride from the Maine mainland. One of the techniques I asked the group to practice…
Today I photographed inside the Olsen House, where Andrew Wyeth made many of his most famous paintings. The bare rooms were really inspiring and visually interesting. While not particularly Andrew-Wyeth-esque,…
My friends Tom and Linda took me out for a sail on Penobscot Bay in Maine. They picked me up in Stonington harbor in their launch, and we motored out…
I had fun photographing a model from Los Angeles the other day. Mostly we did multiple exposures, but I also did some single poses. The single poses are shown above,…
I photographed this nifty display of roses at a local supermarket using my iPhone 6s, then processed them in my phone using different painterly effects while waiting on the checkout…
This is an in-camera multiple exposure with six individual exposures with my camera set to Autogain. I varied the focal length between exposures to capture the model and her lace outfit…
I've been doing a great deal of black and white work for my forthcoming book from Monacelli Press, so its nice to take a color break with a color image,…
A gargoyle is a carved grotesque, with (sometimes) the practical function of serving as a down spout for rain, and often the emotional purpose of warding off evil spirits. The…
For the demonstration of how to add a post-production selective soft focus using an Iris Blur for my forthcoming book from Monacelli Press, The Photographer's Black and White Handbook, I…
From iPhone to ART: The Art of iPhoneography A Two-Day Weekend Workshop with Harold Davis, Saturday January 28 - Sunday January 29, 2017. This workshop will be hosted in Berkeley,…
Yesterday was going to be a day of routine and mundane tasks: bookkeeping, workflow management, writing business emails, and so on. As a professional photographer and artist, this stuff has…
Update: The green pattern at the bottom of the image is caused by reflection from the sensor into the lens and from there back to the sensor. Wandering in a Californian coastal…
This is an image of the first-order Fresnel lens inside the Point Reyes Lighthouse on the western tip of Point Reyes, California. According to the Point Reyes National Seashore website,…