digital photography: techniques: thoughts: photographs
Exposure data: Photographed on a light box with a Nikon D810, MC-36A remote release, and Zeiss Otus 55mm f/1.4 ZF-mount. Two panels, combined horizontally. Each panel comprised of 7 exposures…
From iPhone to Art From iPhone to Art is a full-day workshop on Saturday May 21, 2016 in Berkeley, California. I have often been asked to lead a workshop that…
A metamorphosis is a transformation. In this image, a model, also shown in Nude Descending a Ladder, is transforming into a portion of Multnomah Falls (or vice versa, the waterfall…
Paris, as Audrey Hepburn said, is always a good idea. Please consider joining my small group of photographers in Paris (and, oh yeah, at the Monet gardens in Giverny!) the…
I'll be teaching a week-long version of my popular Achieving Your Potential As a Photographer workshop in Maine from August 7 to August 13, 2016. Immersing oneself in photography for a…
The artist Marcel Duchamp created a furor in 1912 with his painting Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2. This painting, which was rejected at the time as too avant-garde even…
It had been raining for many days without stopping. While drought conditions in California meant that we really needed this heavy winter rain, enough felt like enough. I was ready…
On a cold morning in eastern Oregon, I stopped beside the road to photograph a progression of utility poles and their reflections. I used a relatively long exposure (0.8 of a…
Recently we celebrated my Dad's 88th birthday. My Dad, Martin Davis, is very sweet, intelligent, and completely engaged with the world---and he blew out the candles on his cake on…
This is Multnomah Falls in the Columbia River Gorge photographed with my DSLR, in compare and contrast mode with my iPhone capture of the same location. I used my Nikon…
This is a close-in view of White River Falls. Standing by the edge of the falls, the whole world seemed loud and in motion. My intention was to use the…
This is a panorama view from behind Upper Horsetail Falls in the Columbia River Gorge. I shot the panorama in fourteen vertical photos, with each capture a RAW file translated…
The Yaquina Bay Bridge is a spectacular structure along the coast of Oregon. It's easy to get underneath to photograph, as shown in this image. Do you prefer the color…
In the fog, the Yaquina Bay Bridge seemed to stretch on forever. The ending was obscure, and vanishingly difficult to find.
Photography is famously about "writing with light"---or rendering light. In fact, light is integral to photography. You can't photograph a physical object. You can only capture the light reflected or…
Yesterday, after photographing Multnomah Falls, I walked up the icy path to Benson Bridge. From this bridge, I climbed the numbered switchbacks to the top of Multnomah Falls. From the…
"Cold is the colour of crystal the snowlight That falls from the heavenly skies"---Annie Lennox Related image: White River Falls. Thanks to @estatik on Flickr.
On my long drive up eastern Oregon, shortly before I got to the Columbia Gorge, I passed White River Falls, shown in the photo. White River Falls State Park was…