Poppies en Masse
Poppies on Black, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. I created the image of poppies on black by inverting the L (Luminance) channel of the white version (below)…
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May 14, 2009
Golden Gate in Black and White
We've been working on the section of The Photoshop Darkroom that treats black and white imagery, so how fitting that a client should ask for black and white images of…
May 5, 2009
Clematis Light to Dark
View this image larger. Yesterday, a beautiful day with plenty of cloud cover and a strong wind, and the garden in full bloom, was perfect for indoor photography of flowers.…
April 24, 2009
Tunnel View
Tunnel View, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Briefly noted: This is the view from Tunnel View in six progressive captures, with the forest area that's in shadow…
April 3, 2009
Structure
Structure, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Structure (above) is pretty much a straight inversion of the L (Luminosity) channel using the LAB color space of the Dandelion…
March 27, 2009
Ruffles Have Ridges
Ruffles Have Ridges, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. I "discovered" (or perhaps "realized" would be the better verb) that there's no reason I can't combine flatbed scans…
March 26, 2009
Carp Diem
Koi, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. At the Hagiwara Japanese Tea Garden I photographed the Koi (which are of the Carp genus) with the idea of having…
March 18, 2009
The Destination Recedes
The Destination Recedes, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. The tunnel of trees leading to the historical RCA Marconi wireless communication center is long enough. Make it even…
March 14, 2009
Tone Poem
Late in the afternoon of a bright autumn day I arrived in Yosemite Valley. The valley was already in shadow, with only the tops of the surrounding cliffs lit by…
February 17, 2009
Abstraction
With the kids and Phyllis asleep, over the course of a long winter night I "painted" in Photoshop to create this quartet of abstractions from a single capture of paper…
February 16, 2009
One Good Eye
One Good Eye, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. It's not everyday you photograph a succulent like the one below, and when you look closely you see an…
February 4, 2009
Changes
Since the world is always changing, photography is largely about capturing states of things---scenes, objects, or people---in the process of change. A single image can intimate the before, and the…
February 2, 2009
From Architecture to Fantasy
Between committments at Macworld at the Moscone Center I wandered over and indulged my dome photography habit by photographing the dome in the Westfield shopping mall in downtown San Francisco.…
January 23, 2009
The Wrestlers’ Tomb
The Wrestlers' Tomb, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Some days I feel I'm channeling Vincent van Gogh, others it is M.C. Escher, and today I am channeling…
January 22, 2009
Start Scrolling
Get ready to start scrolling! Tilt your head. Dudes and Dudettes, this panorama of the Golden Gate was stitched together from ten RAW files using the Photoshop CS3 Extended Photomerge…
January 14, 2009
Watchmaker Dial
Starting with my photo of the Westfield Mall dome, I stayed up most of the night and worked the image in Photoshop. A trick with this kind of thing is…
January 12, 2009
Flowernalia
Flowernalia, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. In ancient times the Romans celebrated the return of the sun with Saturnalia. There was all manner of feasting and revelry,…
December 28, 2008
Morning in the Foothills
From time to time I repost from my archives. This is a reposting of a photo and the related story originally published in September 2006. Morning in the Foothills, photo…
December 16, 2008