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…
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February 26, 2014
digital photography: techniques: thoughts: photographs
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
Graced with Light in Grace Cathedral
Heading into Grace Cathedral in San Francisco, my idea was to practice HDR photography on the vaulted ceiling of the church. I had done this once before in Grace Cathedral,…
January 23, 2014
Photographing Flowers Course (with discount link)
I am proud of my online Photographing Flowers course at Craftsy.com, which by now has more than 500 students. The variety, exuberance and quality of the student projects shows that…
January 18, 2014
Learn Photoshop This Year!—Second Session by Popular Demand
The first session of Mastering Creative Photoshop is sold out...and so many people have asked for another session. Here it is!!! The dates are Saturday May 31 - Sunday June 1,…
January 17, 2014
Through a glass lightly
I lit a passion flower (passiflora) from the rear and left, so that the light reflected off the flower onto the neck of a glass bottle with a rather tall…
January 11, 2014
Temple Flags
The temple flags shown in this image are along the steps leading up to the grand shrine of Kumano Hongu Taisha located in Tanabe, Japan on the Kii peninsula in…
January 8, 2014
Anemones 1 © Harold Davis
My best of 2013
As an exercise, and also to participate in a compendium of "best of" blogged photos, I've put together what I think are my best photos from 2013. This has been…
January 5, 2014
Monochromatic HDR Photography
The two images shown in this blog story are both examples of monochromatic HDR photography. Each was shot using a bracketed exposure sequence. The exposures in each of the bracketed…
December 31, 2013