Rift in the Clouds
Rift in the Clouds, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. New Year's Eve featured a blue moon rising early, but the layers of fog and clouds that swept…
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January 11, 2010
digital photography: techniques: thoughts: photographs
Won Ton
Won Ton, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This is a close-up of a won ton dumpling with particularly nice folds in the dough from the take-in Chinese…
January 10, 2010
Pink Rose
Pink Rose, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. I photographed this pink rose by morning sunlight, using a mirror and some white board to reflect the sunlight streaming…
January 8, 2010
Having It Both Ways
Yosemite, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. In my previous post I showed a photo taken a few years ago of Yosemite Valley---and noted that the work of…
January 7, 2010
Yosemite
Yosemite, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Love may mean never having to say sorry---but digital means you're never definitively done. This is a re-work of a RAW…
January 5, 2010
Stasis
Stasis, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Water drops on a spider web on a bright day following rain make me very happy. The web keeps the drops…
January 4, 2010
Lonely Islet
Lonely Islet, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This lonely islet sits in San Francisco Bay off China Beach a few hundred feet from the shore. It's bigger…
January 3, 2010
Plumbing
Porcelain Series No. 1, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. For my first post of the new year, I'll note that things are often not what they seem.…
January 1, 2010
Happy New Decade
Eye of the Rose, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This is a more extended version of Kiss from a Rose presented with my best wishes for a…
December 31, 2009
Alstroemeria Medley
Alstroemeria Medley, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. I shot these alstroemeria blossoms (Peruvian Lilies) on a lightbox. I combined seven exposures at shutters speeds ranging from 1/4…
December 29, 2009
Kiss From A Rose
Kiss from a Rose, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. The lighting, photography, and post-processing of this image all had the same goal: to increase saturation and tonal…
December 28, 2009
Remembrance of Things Past
Remembrance of Things Past, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This is a high-key image, in the sense that it is predominantly overexposed from the perspective of a…
December 26, 2009
Joy
Yosemite Storm, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Read the original story featuring this image. Greetings of the season! May your new year be filled with peace, prosperity,…
December 24, 2009
My Night Photos on Nikon
City Dreams, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Read the original story featuring this image. Night Lights, a story about my night photography, is running on the Nikon…
December 23, 2009
Solstice Sunset
Stinson Beach Sunset, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. A virtue of the short days of winter is that one doesn't have to wait long for sunset. This…
December 22, 2009
Escape from the Shadows
Escape from the Shadows, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. A few weeks ago there was a freak snowstorm in the coastal hills above Berkeley and Oakland, California.…
December 21, 2009
Havana Waterfront
Havana Waterfront, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. I desaturated this image of waves battering the Malecon along the Havana waterfront, and also added some virtual grain, to…
December 19, 2009
Water Drop Crossing
Water Drop Crossing, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. These two images of blades of grass wet with raindrops illustrate a digital solution to a technical photographic problem…
December 16, 2009