Stair Knot
Stair Knot, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. I should think it would be puzzling to be caught on this staircase---a giant knot apparently suspended in space with…
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December 10, 2009
Study of a Twisted Stair
Study of a Twisted Stair, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. If the perspective in this Photoshop Darkroom creation seems twisted, well, it should. Here's the original twisted…
December 9, 2009
Butterfly Prize
Wings of Man, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. My image Wings of Man (above) has won second prize in the NABA (North American Butterfly Association) 2009 art…
December 3, 2009
Stair to Heaven
Stair to Heaven, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This is an abstraction created in the Photoshop Darkroom from Twisted Stairs. Here's an earlier post about some of…
November 24, 2009
Eye of Wonder
Eye of Wonder, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Before leaving my computer behind for several weeks I needed a Photoshop fix---to hold me away from my beloved…
October 23, 2009
Ghost Flower
Ghost Flower, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. The monochrome White Dahlia came from a color image. A high key color image, and one that didn't have much…
October 16, 2009
White Dahlia
White Dahlia, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. I wasn't planning to photograph any more flowers yesterday. Between kids and work things had been hectic indeed. But when…
October 15, 2009
Hidden Worlds
Shadow Within 2, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. One should be careful with everyday things. You never know whether the marble in your pocket contains hidden worlds.…
September 22, 2009
Becoming Echinacea
Becoming Echinacea 2, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. When I saw this Echinacea bud, I knew the image would have to be black and white because the…
September 20, 2009
Photoshop Tutorial: Multi-RAW Processing
I've written a new tutorial on multi-RAW processing in ACR (Adobe Camera RAW) and Photoshop. This technique involves extending the dynamic range of a single RAW capture by processing the…
September 19, 2009
Stacking Star Trails
Edge of Night, photo © Harold Davis. View this image larger. Star stacking is a technology that derives from astronomical photography. The idea is to solve the…
August 12, 2009
Quad
Quad, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. I went across the Bay and down to the Peninsula, where Joseph showed me around Stanford University in Palo Alto. We…
August 7, 2009
Pond in the Sierras
Pond in the Sierras, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This pond is found along the Tioga Pass road in the high country of Yosemite National Park. In…
July 21, 2009
Funhouse
Funhouse, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This is a view on a dark and foggy night of Sutro Baths, Cliff House, and Seal Rocks on the edge…
July 17, 2009
Shaving Spirals
Shaving Spirals, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Briefly noted: a photo composite created from the shavings left after sharpening a pencil.
July 3, 2009
Pencil Shavings
Pencil Shaving I, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. The shavings from a sharpened pencil, shown above and below, were almost discarded, but made an interesting pattern. View…
June 29, 2009
The Photoshop Darkroom—new Harold Davis book
If you haven't seen much of me lately, and if my blog posts have seemed a bit thin, it's because I've been getting my new book The Photoshop Darkroom: Creative…
June 4, 2009
Poppy Duet
Poppy Duet, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. I cut these poppies from my garden and photographed them on a lightbox. I used my 85mm PC macro lens…
May 19, 2009