Nautilus in Black and White
Nautilus in Black and White, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Finley Eversole contacted me for permission to use one of my chambered nautilus images in his book…
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March 28, 2008
Vertigo
Vertigo, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. I lay down at the bottom of the spiral staircase shown in After the Wedding. With my tripod fitting clumsily in…
March 17, 2008
Memory Palace
Memory Palace, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This digital photo collage is an elaboration of Dream Palace, itself a manipulation of a photo of William Randolph Hearst's…
February 21, 2008
Making a Digital Collage
The image below is a digital collage, meaning a Photoshop composite created by blending layers. As these collages go, this is a fairly simple piece. All the elements in the…
February 20, 2008
Processing Noise
I've been shooting in low light at ISO 6400, partly on the grounds that my Nikon D300 is remarkably low noise, and partly on the grounds that noise can be…
February 14, 2008
Valentine
Happy Valentine's Day! May you be in love and happy with your sweetie in a most commendably non-commercial way! This image of Hearts on Fire in the Sky is a…
February 14, 2008
Resistance to Spirals Is Futile
Resistance to Spirals Is Futile, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. There's something hypnotizing about spirals. Even when I start with a perfectly good "straight" photo of a…
January 24, 2008
From Reflections to Abstractions
I sometimes wonder how I end up with images that are elaborate photo composites, having more visually in common with paintings than photographs. This images are born of photographic parents…
January 9, 2008
Variations
Tower of Babel - Blue Variation, image by Harold Davis. View this image larger. These are variations--in blue tones above, and in pink below--based upon Tower of Babel. View this…
January 1, 2008
Tower of Babel
Tower of Babel, Photoshop collage by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This is a Photoshop collage based on Persistence of Reflections and More Oakland Reflections. I think it is…
December 31, 2007
Civilization
Civilization, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This is a Photoshop collage based on my Oakland reflections photos. Related stories: There Is a There There; Persistence of Reflections;…
December 28, 2007
Heart of the Wave
Heart of the Wave, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. I couldn't resist having some Photoshop fun with The Wave #5. This Photoshop composite flips the original image…
November 26, 2007
Toned
Beyond the Forest: Toned, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. I thought it would be interesting to see my image of Church Towers from the Yosemite Valley floor…
October 7, 2007
Remarkable
It's remarkable what you can do in post-processing. Compare my original conversion from the RAW of my Yosemite Dreams (far below) with a more recent version (immediately below) I created…
October 1, 2007
Woodland Pond
Woodland Pond, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Like Wood between the Worlds, the background of this photocomposite combines Big Sticks (from New Mexico above Santa Fe) and…
September 24, 2007
Persistence of Vision
Persistence of Vision, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This is a photo from the end of the Berkeley Pier looking towards the Golden Gate Bridge. The Berkeley…
July 31, 2007
Flower at the Center of the Universe
Flower at the Center of the Universe, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. I've called this photo composition Flower at the Center of the Universe. To create the…
July 7, 2007
White Balance and the RAW Landscape
Mark and I went back out to Arch Rock last night. It was a little earlier than my last hike out there, so I was able to work my way…
July 6, 2007