Yucky Spider Not
Yucky Spider, photo by Harold Davis. This spider was weaving its web right outside our living room window. I photographed it against the sunset with my 105mm macro lens. I…
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September 5, 2005
Phinding Photos in my Pholders
Pale Rose, photo by Harold Davis. I've been rationalizing the organization of the my photos. This is nothing radical. The problem is that the software that comes with my various…
September 4, 2005
Moon over Lake Tahoe
Moon over Lake Tahoe, photo by Harold Davis. This is a long time exposure taken from near Dollar Point on Lake Tahoe. The long time exposure explains the glassy (or…
August 29, 2005
Putting the Sky in Emerald Bay
Emerald Bay, photo by Harold Davis. We just got back from a family vacation in Lake Tahoe. We stayed in a condo and spent a lot of time by the…
August 29, 2005
Marbles, the Planets, and the Night Sky
Marbles, the Planets, and the Night Sky, photo by Harold Davis. Lots of fun - you can probably recognize the marbles, but what about the rim of the glass bowl?
August 20, 2005
The Eye and the Wheel
The Eye and the Wheel, photo by Harold Davis. It's fun to play with Photoshop and create composite images that are part photograph, part painting - and part imagination. This…
August 18, 2005
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Turning Digital Night to Day
Half Dome View at Sunset, photo by Harold Davis. Julian, my eight year old, and I went on a camping trip for most of this last week. We started in…
August 13, 2005
The World in a Marble
Thanks for All the Fish, photo by Harold Davis. Take a good steady tripod and an excellent 105mm macro lens and a marble on a mirror. That's a good start.…
August 3, 2005
Fresco Flower
Fresco Flower, photo by Harold Davis. I thought this photo looked like a painting when I took it, and I did my best to accentuate the effect in post-production processing.…
August 2, 2005
Aren’t They Marbelous!
Glowing Marbles, photo by Harold Davis. I bought five pounds of old marbles on eBay, and cleaned them today. I photographed a few of these marbles on a mirror using…
July 30, 2005
Fog Rolling In Across the Bay
Fog Rolling In Across the Bay, photo by Harold Davis. I took this picture yesterday when I was out with Nicky. It's cropped and the colors are boosted using the…
July 29, 2005
Photoshop and Digital Photography Techniques
I seem to be writing about digital photography techniques, workflow, photography, and Photoshop. Here's what I've written recently in Photoblog 2.0 about these things: Processing a Digital Photo Fun with…
July 28, 2005
The Evolution of Photography
Wet Rose, photo by Harold Davis. I love my digital cameras, and am blown away by the intelligence built into them. My Nikon D70 gets a great many things right…
July 27, 2005
Opening Camera RAW in Photoshop CS2
In a previous post I explained the basics of my workflow for processing a digital image in Photoshop. The first step in this process is to open the image in…
July 18, 2005
Without My Polarizer I Am Blue
Blue, photo by Harold Davis. This is a photo of a fingerpainting project at Nicky's pre-school drying outside. I took the picture in the late afternoon sun. The only thing…
July 13, 2005
Would Ansel Like Digital?
Dream Reflections © Harold Davis This photo is of reflections in this year's high water at the western end of Lake Tenaya in Yosemite Park. One of the famous Ansel…
July 6, 2005
Processing a Digital Photo
Lembert Dome, Tuolumne Meadows by Harold Davis I always have a little chuckle when I hear a photographer boast that their digital photo didn't need to be "fixed" in a…
July 4, 2005
Shine On, Ersatz Moon
Shine On, Ersatz Moon, photo by Harold Davis. These rocks near the top of Mount Tamalpais seemed to call out for a moon, and I few entries ago I photographed…
June 20, 2005