Capillarity
Capillarity I, photo by Harold Davis. View this photogram larger. This pair of digital photograms shows capillarity, or capillar action, in a leaf. The version above has had the LAB…
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September 17, 2006
Digital Photograms
Red Gaillardia, photo by Harold Davis. View this digital photogram larger. Here are two more digital photograms of the gaillardia 'fanfare': one in red and one in blue. Enjoy! View…
September 16, 2006
Photograms for the Digital Era
Gaillardia, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. I photographed this gaillardia on a white background and, as with the bougainvillea bract, used LAB color modality in Photoshop to…
September 15, 2006
Bougainvillea
Bougainvillea, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Like my Gladiolus photo, this was a pretty straight studio shot of a bougainvillea bract. In Photoshop, I converted to LAB…
September 15, 2006
Gladiolus
Gladiolus, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. This is a fairly straight studio shot taken with my Sigma 50mm Macro lens of gladiolas in a vase. I converted…
September 14, 2006
Yosemite Falls in Winter
Yosemite Falls in Winter, photo by Harold Davis. View this photo larger. I captured this photograph in early spring in Yosemite Valley and archived it. It was one of those…
September 1, 2006
Using LAB Color
Rio Grande near Taos, New Mexico, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. I've been reading Dan Margulis's masterful Photoshop LAB Color: The Canyon Conundrum and Other Adventures in…
August 29, 2006
A Pixel Is a Pixel
Moon and Golden Gate Bridge, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. I post-processed this photograph of the Golden Gate Bridge by early moonlight from Fort Mason by sandwiching…
August 10, 2006
Golden Golden Gate Bridge
Night Bridge, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. This is the final exposure from the other night on Marin headlands. Here's an earlier view looking towards the Golden…
August 3, 2006
Starry Night
Moon over Point Bonita, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. This is a photograph looking away from the Golden Gate Bridge out the Golden Gate towards the open…
August 2, 2006
Like a Photographer to the Flame
Candle, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. It was a rare occasion: Phyllis and I were enjoying a quiet, candle-light supper with all kids going down gently. I…
July 27, 2006
Rainbow on the Mist Trail
Rainbow on the Mist Trail, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. Part of the fun of climbing the stairs of the Mist Trail to the top of Vernal…
May 31, 2006
Raise High the ISO, Digital Photographic Craftspeople!
Calochortus, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. Wild flowers---like the Calochortus above, also sometimes called a Mariposa Lily---grow along Hite's Cove Trail above the South Fork of the…
May 31, 2006
Biggest: Correcting Digital Fisheye Distortion
Biggest, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. What do you do as a photographer when confronted with the biggest tree on earth, stretching up so high that it…
May 28, 2006
Is Nature’s Imperfection Perfect Enough?
Dragonfly, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. I photographed this dragonfly last summer in Blake Garden. I had a cooperative model, and basically this was a grab-and-shoot situation.…
April 20, 2006
Fog Rising, Yosemite
Fog Rising, Yosemite, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. The rain that's been falling in the San Francisco area translates to snow in the Sierras. Here's an image…
April 7, 2006
Harbinger of Spring
Daffodil, photo by Harold Davis. View this photo larger. Daffodils are harbingers of spring, so it's a pleasure to photograph these beautiful flowers. However, I think these are hard flowers…
February 16, 2006
Going with the Grain
Black and White Bristlecone 5, photo by Harold Davis. View this photo larger. In a couple of previous posts, I explained a number of different techniques for converting color digital…
January 3, 2006