I've been photographing flowers for transparency the last few days, and processing them to appear on black and white backgrounds. The trick here is lighting, photography, and Photoshop: so three…
Alice followed the White Rabbit down a rabbit hole and found a weird world of inexplicable twists and turns. Besides Alice and Lewis Carroll, this twisting photocomposition is in part…
Magic Carpet Ride, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This is a variation on a theme via Photoshop, with the shadow of wicker on a Persian rug the…
The original version of these images was a digital macro shot of a marble, digitally painted in Photoshop. At the request of a client, I prepared these variations. View this…
Orange Horizon, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. The light fades on my bluff above the crashing ocean. The vista becomes a combination of islands of clarity in…
Casserole Reflections I, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Starting from an already fairly experimental image, like the view of reflections on the stove top that is the…
Fuschia Gradient, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Down the block, in front of Heidi's house, there's a great fuschia that grows buds like this one (Jet Engine…
Katie Rose in Chiaroscuro, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Katie Rose was sleeping upstairs. The room was dark, except for a low-watt lamp that illuminated part of…
[Note: this is a reposting of a story originally published in August 2005.] Fresco Flower, photo by Harold Davis. I thought this photo looked like a painting when I took…
When you use Photoshop, nothing is more important than the ability to make selections. As a simple example, when you want to make a composite by moving a person from…
Like World without End, my image of endless doors, I shot the base photo for this image at Fort Point in San Francisco. In the shadow of the Golden Gate…
Nicky on Black, photo by Harold Davis. Nicky and I were fooling around taking his picture. I gave him the flower-on-black treatment: I covered a high-backed chair with black cloth,…
In November of 2007, while I was clambering around Zion Canyon at night, exploring the Wave, and getting lost in the desert, Phyllis fielded a business call from Ringing Cedars…
The Lithographers Club of Chicago is a printing industry trade group. They selected an image of mine to use for the cover of their May/June 2008 magazine issue (the cover…
If you're like me when it comes to wild and wacky Photoshop creations that start as digital photos, sometimes you don't remember how you got to your end point. A…
Gaillardia x grandiflora, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This flower is a Gaillardia x grandiflora 'Oranges and Lemons'. Gaillardias are native to North America, and are sometimes…
Looking Down, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. I took the original version of this photo (you can see it below) from the top of a rotunda in…
Door Knob Dome Scandal, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Everyone thought it a scandal when the door knob in my basement got together with the dome in…