Pinhole
Cathedral Spires and Bridalveil Falls, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This is a view of Bridalveil Falls and Cathedral Spires in Yosemite Valley processed to simulate a…
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February 24, 2010
digital photography: techniques: thoughts: photographs
Kimi Solarization
Kimi Solarization, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Speaking of solarization---we were talking about solarization, right?---here's a black and white photo of the model Kimi treated to virtual…
February 22, 2010
Blue Velvet
Life Is Full of Beauty, photo by Harold Davis. In David Lynch's wonderfully creepy classic film Blue Velvet you know you've entered an alternative and not altogether wholesame nether world…
February 21, 2010
Web Solarization
Web Solarization, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. I shot this beautiful wet spider web by the early light of dawn on a foggy morning, then solarized it…
February 19, 2010
Pink Rose 2
Pink Rose 2, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. I forgot to blog this pink rose from about a month ago; better late than never. Particularly when I…
February 18, 2010
Solarized Hellebore
Solarized Hellebore, photo by Harold Davis. Solarization in photography reverses blacks and whites. Also called the Sabattier effect, in the chemical darkroom solarization was achieved by exposing an already exposed…
February 18, 2010
Hellebore Curves
Hellebore Curves, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Flowers are beautiful---although why they seem so beautiful to us humans is an interesting question. But when I photograph flowers…
February 17, 2010
Mare Island Infrared
Mare Island Infrared, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. While on the topic of infrared captures, this is an IR photo of a drydock at the old Mare…
February 16, 2010
Infrared Alice
Infrared Alice, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This is a capture of Alice using a camera retrofitted to only shoot IR. Rendition of colors (or black and…
February 15, 2010
Photographing Alice
Alice, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. I photographed Alice, a model from Italy, the other night in a studio in San Jose. Alice is show in color…
February 14, 2010
Lenten Cross
Lenten Cross, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Phyllis arranged the hellebore medley I photographed earlier into a regular pattern, with the results you see. The Lenten Rose…
February 13, 2010
Split Toning in a Winter Vista
Winter Vista, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. To enhance this monochromatic winter vista of Yosemite, I used a split toning effect. I added a deeper sepia tone…
February 11, 2010
Hellebore Medley
Hellebore Medley, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Like Flower Medley, I photographed these Hellebores looking straight down. The Hellebore blossoms from my garden were floating in a…
February 9, 2010
Hood Ornament
Hood Ornament, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. I don't think I'd want one of these in my belly button, but on this model it creates a pretty…
February 8, 2010
Floral Medley
Floral Medley, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This floral medley contains roses, a camellia, and three varieties of hellebore. The hellebores and camellia are from my garden,…
February 6, 2010
Black & White HDR
Capitolio Nacional, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This is a shot---or, more accurately, three shots---of the Cuban Capitolio Nacional in Havana. The elegant building is mostly empty,…
February 5, 2010
Sharpening with LAB Color
Ice Storm in Yosemite, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This is a photograph of an ice storm in Yosemite Valley. The lines in the ice on the…
February 4, 2010
Reach for the Sky
Reach for the Sky, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This is a black and white rendition of my rather dramatic fisheye image of Bristlecone Pines, some of…
February 3, 2010