Learn Photoshop this year
Make this the year that you finally learn Photoshop! It's time to bend Photoshop to your creative will. Whether you want to enhance your existing digital workflow, create black and…
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December 31, 2013
Monochromatic HDR Photography
The two images shown in this blog story are both examples of monochromatic HDR photography. Each was shot using a bracketed exposure sequence. The exposures in each of the bracketed…
December 31, 2013
Out with the Old
As the new year approaches I am reminded of the saying "Out with the old, in with the new." As an immigrant to California, this truly resonates for me because---as has…
December 30, 2013
Samadhi Mudra
The hand gestures of representations of Budhha are significant, and have specific meanings. The Dhyana mudra (hand gesture of Buddha), also called the Samadhi mudra, is shown in the photo below.…
December 28, 2013
White Chrysanthemums at Giverny
At a casual glance, this is a fairly simple selective focus image of lush white flowers in an autumn garden. Actually, there's more to it photographically than meets the eye.…
December 24, 2013
Negative Space
Negative space is often defined as the space around and between the subject of an image. From a formal design perspective, learning to see negative space helps one to visualize the…
December 22, 2013
Harold Davis Photography Workshops in 2014
I hope to see you at a photography workshop in 2014. I have the following workshops scheduled for 2014: 2014.01.25—2014.01.26—Mastering Creative Photoshop: The Way of the Digital Photographer—This workshop covers…
December 20, 2013
Photographing the Unusual in Paris
I am looking for a few select photographic souls who are Parisian at heart to join my wonderful group of photographers in Paris in April and May of 2014. Click here…
December 18, 2013
A studio is a frame of mind
A studio is a frame of mind, not a place. When I tell people that I am in my studio, it means to me that I am working as an…
December 16, 2013
Red red rose
As many times as I photograph roses I never have enough! There is always a different way to approach a rose, or any other flower for that matter. Verily, there…
December 13, 2013
As time goes by
At first glance, this image has been mistaken for an iPhone shot (after the pattern of the special effects iPhone photos in my iPhonographie de Paris). The banks of the…
December 7, 2013
Distant Japanese Landscape
About half a mile before reaching Hyakken-gura, I paused in the steady rain. Peering out from beneath my umbrella, I could see through the pine trees to a distant landscape…
December 6, 2013
Islands in the Seine
I woke to a foggy autumn morning in Paris. No matter what the weather, there is always something to photograph in Paris---so I headed out to the islands in the…
December 5, 2013
3,600 Peaks of Kumano
During a short break in the very wet weather, from Hyakken-gura, a lookout high on the Kumano kodo, I shot this panorama of the "Kumano Sanzen Roppyaku Po"---which translates to "view…
December 3, 2013
Playing with my boys on Point Reyes
On the Friday of the Thanksgiving weekend I drove out with my boys---Julian, Nicky and Mathew---to Point Reyes. Nicky's friend Tamen came along too. It was a balmy, almost summer-like…
December 2, 2013
Along the Kumano Kodo
Along the ancient Kumano kodo pilgrimage trail there is mostly the silence of the weather. Wind whistles through the trees and a fine mist falls drop by drop. It wasn't always…
December 1, 2013
Hot springs resort
The hot springs resort of Yunomine Onsen nestles in a valley basin in the Kii peninsula of Japan, where it has provided respite to weary trekkers on the Kumano kodo…
November 30, 2013