digital photography: techniques: thoughts: photographs
The Three Graces are actually a three-in-one trinity: this is one model (Anastasia Arteyeva), via an in-camera multiple exposure. Processed for the distinctive---almost cave painting look---using the Da Vinci filter in…
Over the weekend on Saturday I led a fun workshop sponsored by the Point Reyes Field Institute on Point Reyes photographing Waves. I had some very enthusiastic participants and I think…
One reason to photograph at night in a tourist destination is, as I explained in Photographing the Bridge of Sighs at Night, to avoid selfie-stick-toting tour groups. Another reason is…
On a Venetian morning socked in with fog, my friend Mauro and I took the vaporetto across to the island of San Giorgio. The normally inspiring view from the top…
Photographing Venice, Italy with my iPhone 6s camera, and processing the images using the Waterlogue app on the phone, is great! In fact, you could say that Venice via the…
Florence and Venice, two great Italian cities, one photographed at the beginning and one at the end of my recent trip to Italy! Related story: Harold in Italy. Related story:…
At the tip of Dorsoduro, the Venetian Quarter across the Grand Canal from San Marco, sits the Dogana di Mare. The Dogana di Mare is a colonnaded customs station built…
My friend Mauro and I took the vaporetto across the fog-bound Venice lagoon to Burano. Just like a trip to a remote part of a city served by an on-land…
Coming into Venice after a long day on the train from Naples was a dream-like experience. From southern almost summer time I was transported into an early November dark world…
I had this mixed antipasto at Campagnola, a classic Neapolitan trattoria in the heart of old Naples. The dish was incredibly delicious. Words simply cannot describe the sensuous lusciousness of…
Coming into Naples, an incredible snarl of traffic. This is take-no-prisoners driving, and really kind of fun to watch in a madcap way. Particularly since it wasn't me driving. We…
How amazing it is to leave California in the afternoon, transit through an airline haze of mediocre movies and reading materials, and more-or-less the next morning to arrive in Italy!…
If not now, when? What about the May 1 - May 7 2016 destination photography workshop, Photograph Paris with Harold Davis in the Springtime? If I am not for myself, who…
I'm appreciative that Topaz Labs allowed me to present my landscape photography in a webinar, and also to explain some of the techniques I use. One of the neat things…
It's time for holiday giving---or for a great present for yourself! We are offering four prints of my most iconic images. Each print is hand-crafted in my studio using archival…
Full Day Workshop: Get Your Camera Off Automatic with Harold Davis Have you always wanted to take fantastic photos, but somehow they never seem to come out as well as you…
It's fun sometimes to make the colors really pop, as in this pair of images. The bottom floral, of Gerberas and Crysanthemums, was photographed on a light box. I then…
I spent a few days doodling and noodling with flowers, first on the light box for transparency and then with LAB inversions in Photoshop, and Low Geostationary and Decaying Orbits…