Poppies, photo by Harold Davis. Briefly noted: I photographed these poppies (Papaver Rhoeas) for transparency by backlighting them using a lightbox. Exposure data: 50mm macro, six captures at shutter speeds…
Dahlia, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. I placed this Dahlia from my garden on a black background, and lit it from the front using a small LED…
Tulip, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Briefly noted: This tulip was great fun to photograph. I used back lighting to make it seem like the core of…
Hand Colored Christianna, photo by Harold Davis. My latest column on Photo.net is about aging photos---intentionally giving contemporary digital photos a simulated aged look. Enjoy! Here's the article description: If…
Couch, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This photo shows a detail view of the leather couch in our living room. The kids love to jump on it,…
It's very exciting for us. Our new book Creative Portraits: Digital Photography Tips & Techniques made the bestseller lists on Amazon today. Creative Portraits was number one of all the…
Kirsten, photo by Harold Davis. Briefly noted: Kirsten has a mischievous twinkle in her lovely eyes. As soon as I saw her I knew I wanted to make a portrait…
Photon Worshippers, photo by Steven Christenson. Congratulations to my night-shooting buddy Steven Christenson, whose Photon Worshippers (above) is the winner of the Royal Observatory (Greenwich, UK) 2010 photo competition in…
Figure Study, photo by Harold Davis. Briefly noted: These are fair-skinned models painted in silver and gold. Monochromatic conversion gives the impression that the skin tones are much darker than…
La Chambre Noire Photoshop, photo by Harold Davis. We're very excited to have received copies of the French translation of The Photoshop Darkroom. A great deal of effort went into…
Silver and Gold, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This shot of two models in metallic body paint didn't seem to present any particular post-processing difficulties. But the…
Nocturnal Geometry, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. The model wore one of those old-fashioned mesh veils, pearls, and not much else. In Photoshop, I applied the Topaz…
Shell Spiral, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Briefly noted: Close-up of a very, very small shell---photographed on black velvet, positioned upright using a pin, underexposed with an…
Sea Palms, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Briefly noted: Another version of the Sea Palm Forest, this one processed in a Photoshop Statistics stack using only four…
Sea Palm Forest, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Along the rugged northern California coast, on BLM land near the Point Arena Lighthouse, I stopped to photograph a…
Phyllis and I have finished our new book The Photoshop Darkroom 2: Creative Digital Transformations. In the tradition of The Photoshop Darkroom: Creative Post-Processing, the emphasis of the new book…
Dahlias and Echinaceas, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Briefly noted: An arrangement of Dahlias and Echniaceas from my garden. I love photographing flowers---and it is great that…
These two images of the female nude are abstractions---the female forms are composed as if they were sculpture or even a still life. In the Photoshop darkroom, to create the…