digital photography: techniques: thoughts: photographs
My new book Creative Portraits: Digital Photography Tips & Techniques is now available. This is a book about portrait photography techniques with a somewhat different slant. It's not just about…
Imagine photographing stars and star trails under the clear night skies of the Eastern Sierras with the guidance of two masters of night photography! Under the auspices of Star Circle…
Low Tide at Dusk, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This is an image taken in the China Beach area of San Francisco Bay as dusk was fading…
Annette, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Briefly noted: The reddish light in this portrait of the beautiful model Annette comes from a parasol she was holding while…
Romance of the Dandelion, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. I created this composite image in Photoshop to illustrate a book, Lane Von Herzen's The Unfastened Heart. Here's…
KT Cover, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. My new book Creative Portraits: Digital Photography Tips & Techniques is now shipping. Amazon will get it to you anywhere,…
No Yolk, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. It's not often you see a green wasp the size of a hen's egg. If you do, it is certainly…
Sunny Side Up, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This is a post about technology. Mostly, I like to write about photography and Photoshop in my blog---but sometimes…
First Blush Variation, photo by Harold Davis. Photoshop’s Image Apply Image command is one of its least understood—and most powerful. In my latest Photo.net column, I explain how to use…
Rose, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This is a grab shot of a backlit rose, found along the street---as much as anything with a 200mm telephoto macro…
Portal, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. According to Bruno Ernst, M.C. Escher contemplated creating a "fascinating" fairy tale landscape in which a magic ornamental gate in our…
Sunny Saw Up, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. I photographed this saw blade last year at Joseph Siroker's Palo Alto studio. Our idea was to create shadows…
Havana Cross, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. In downtown Havana, Cuba, near the Capitolio Nacional and across the street from the Floridita---a bar favored by Hemingway in…
Nautilus Cross Section, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Continuing with my simplicity kick, I shot this Nautilus cross-section a while back on a light box. To process…
Apple, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Half of an apple. Simple, basic---to the core! However, an image of this apparent simplicity is often not as easy to…
Lost Mesa, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Following up on my threat (or was it a promise) to add waterfalls to a pine cone, I've created an…
Pine Cone, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. On our way down to Kirby Cove, Mark and I passed this Pine Cone on the trail covered with green…
Back, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Looking at this photo in Adobe Bridge, it was the most underexposed of the set---and very, very dark. The histogram was…