Rose after Delauney and O’Keeffe
At a recent lunch with my brother he reminded me how we both benefited from a classical education in the arts when we were young. I may not have got…
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March 24, 2014
digital photography: techniques: thoughts: photographs
Flowers for the vernal equinox
To celebrate the spring equinox yesterday, here are some Tulips and Anemones shot on my light box for translucency (a white ranunculus peeks through on the upper left as well!).…
March 21, 2014
Curated—A Different Version of Harold Davis
Danielle Wohl, an art consultant based in Palo Alto, California, has curated a different version of my work on her website. These are not the translucent florals on washi or…
March 21, 2014
The feeling is mutual: my Otus lens
I've posted a new informal review of my Zeiss Otus 1.4/55 on Photo.net. My conclusion: "If you can afford it, and if you can work with manual focus (which is…
March 20, 2014
Kaleidoscope of Flowers
Spring has come, and I know it's true because I have anemones and ranunculae to add to my tulips on my light box for back lighting. Fun to create a…
March 18, 2014
Beneath the Berkeley Pier
The Berkeley, California Pier juts out 3,000 feet into San Francisco Bay. When originally constructed in the 1920s, the pier was over three miles long, and an integral part of…
March 11, 2014
Best Of Botanicals: National Juried Photography Exhibition
Best Of Botanicals: National Juried Photography Exhibition A Benefit for San Francisco Botanical Garden Call for entries. Entries are due: April 3, 2014 From classical to contemporary, from desert to rain forest, from bud to decay, the natural form…
March 5, 2014
Flowers Squared
I have been thinking about square compositions, for example, with these Nautilus Shells. So why not create some square versions of my light box flowers? This is actually harder from…
February 26, 2014
Today’s Nautilus
I've been photographing split Nautilus shells yesterday and today, these make such lovely spirals. Check out the monochrome version first: It's hard to think of another still life subject that…
February 20, 2014
Nautilus by Halves
To make this image, I photographed two split halves of a Nautilus shell on a mirror placed on a black velvet background. I lit the composition using natural light and…
February 19, 2014
Otus and me
I shot this photo of tulips in a crowd with my new Otus. Otus's more formal designation is the Otus 1.4/55, and is, in the words of the manufacturer Zeiss, quite…
February 16, 2014
Tulip Pano
This tulip panorama was shot on a light box in three segments. Each segment is made up of six exposures, so there are eighteen exposures in all. In post-production, first…
February 14, 2014
Tulips
I have been working on a series of Tulip imagery that I shot almost a year ago, and haven't had the time to process before now. These were shot on…
February 12, 2014
Opium Poppies
It's perfectly legal in this country to cultivate the Opium Poppy, Papaver somniferum, for decorative purposes. But this pretty flower, shown in the image below, has long caused wild dreams…
February 8, 2014
Quince by Moon
Here's my red flowering quince shot, with the moon in an alternate position. Good argument for archiving one's layers unflattened---that way it is easy to go back and move the…
February 4, 2014
New review of Monochromatic HDR Photography by Harold Davis
The following short review of Monochromatic HDR Photography appears in the January 2014 issue of Rangefinder Magazine (page 32): Monochromatic HDR Photography By Harold Davis Among his multifarious skills---photographer, author,…
January 31, 2014
Flowering Quince
The red flowering quince are particularly gorgeous this year in my neighborhood, and I can't resist putting some of them on my light box. These flowers have a simple elegance…
January 30, 2014
Harold Davis “Red Poppies” on Awagami washi at Paperworld Frankfurt
My friend Hermann Will of Fine Art Printer Magazine sent me a snapshot, shown here on Facebook, of my Red Poppies print on kozo washi at the Awagami exhibit in…
January 29, 2014