Why do you photograph?
Eye Pluribus, photo by Harold Davis. With two working parents and four kids, two of the kids with special needs, my family life is often fun but seldom tranquil. Particularly…
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September 24, 2010
digital photography: techniques: thoughts: photographs
Poppies
Poppies, photo by Harold Davis. Briefly noted: I photographed these poppies (Papaver Rhoeas) for transparency by backlighting them using a lightbox. Exposure data: 50mm macro, six captures at shutter speeds…
September 22, 2010
Dahlia
Dahlia, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. I placed this Dahlia from my garden on a black background, and lit it from the front using a small LED…
September 21, 2010
Tulip
Tulip, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Briefly noted: This tulip was great fun to photograph. I used back lighting to make it seem like the core of…
September 17, 2010
Aging Photos Roundup
Hand Colored Christianna, photo by Harold Davis. My latest column on Photo.net is about aging photos---intentionally giving contemporary digital photos a simulated aged look. Enjoy! Here's the article description: If…
September 16, 2010
Couch
Couch, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This photo shows a detail view of the leather couch in our living room. The kids love to jump on it,…
September 15, 2010
Kirsten
Kirsten, photo by Harold Davis. Briefly noted: Kirsten has a mischievous twinkle in her lovely eyes. As soon as I saw her I knew I wanted to make a portrait…
September 11, 2010
Photon Worshippers
Photon Worshippers, photo by Steven Christenson. Congratulations to my night-shooting buddy Steven Christenson, whose Photon Worshippers (above) is the winner of the Royal Observatory (Greenwich, UK) 2010 photo competition in…
September 10, 2010
Figure Study
Figure Study, photo by Harold Davis. Briefly noted: These are fair-skinned models painted in silver and gold. Monochromatic conversion gives the impression that the skin tones are much darker than…
September 9, 2010
La Chambre Noire Photoshop
La Chambre Noire Photoshop, photo by Harold Davis. We're very excited to have received copies of the French translation of The Photoshop Darkroom. A great deal of effort went into…
September 7, 2010
Silver and Gold
Silver and Gold, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This shot of two models in metallic body paint didn't seem to present any particular post-processing difficulties. But the…
September 4, 2010
Nocturnal Geometry
Nocturnal Geometry, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. The model wore one of those old-fashioned mesh veils, pearls, and not much else. In Photoshop, I applied the Topaz…
September 3, 2010
Shell Spiral
Shell Spiral, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Briefly noted: Close-up of a very, very small shell---photographed on black velvet, positioned upright using a pin, underexposed with an…
August 31, 2010
Sea Palms
Sea Palms, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Briefly noted: Another version of the Sea Palm Forest, this one processed in a Photoshop Statistics stack using only four…
August 30, 2010
Sea Palm Forest
Sea Palm Forest, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Along the rugged northern California coast, on BLM land near the Point Arena Lighthouse, I stopped to photograph a…
August 29, 2010
Sneak Preview: Photoshop Darkroom 2
Phyllis and I have finished our new book The Photoshop Darkroom 2: Creative Digital Transformations. In the tradition of The Photoshop Darkroom: Creative Post-Processing, the emphasis of the new book…
August 28, 2010
Dahlias and Echinaceas
Dahlias and Echinaceas, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Briefly noted: An arrangement of Dahlias and Echniaceas from my garden. I love photographing flowers---and it is great that…
August 26, 2010
Reclining Nude
These two images of the female nude are abstractions---the female forms are composed as if they were sculpture or even a still life. In the Photoshop darkroom, to create the…
August 24, 2010