No Yolk
No Yolk, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. It's not often you see a green wasp the size of a hen's egg. If you do, it is certainly…
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August 10, 2010
Live By Technology Die By Technology
Sunny Side Up, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This is a post about technology. Mostly, I like to write about photography and Photoshop in my blog---but sometimes…
August 9, 2010
Using Image Apply Image
First Blush Variation, photo by Harold Davis. Photoshop’s Image Apply Image command is one of its least understood—and most powerful. In my latest Photo.net column, I explain how to use…
August 7, 2010
Rose
Rose, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This is a grab shot of a backlit rose, found along the street---as much as anything with a 200mm telephoto macro…
August 3, 2010
Portal
Portal, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. According to Bruno Ernst, M.C. Escher contemplated creating a "fascinating" fairy tale landscape in which a magic ornamental gate in our…
August 1, 2010
Sunny Saw Up
Sunny Saw Up, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. I photographed this saw blade last year at Joseph Siroker's Palo Alto studio. Our idea was to create shadows…
July 31, 2010
Havana Cross
Havana Cross, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. In downtown Havana, Cuba, near the Capitolio Nacional and across the street from the Floridita---a bar favored by Hemingway in…
July 29, 2010
Nautilus Cross Section
Nautilus Cross Section, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Continuing with my simplicity kick, I shot this Nautilus cross-section a while back on a light box. To process…
July 28, 2010
Apple
Apple, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Half of an apple. Simple, basic---to the core! However, an image of this apparent simplicity is often not as easy to…
July 27, 2010
Lost Mesa
Lost Mesa, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Following up on my threat (or was it a promise) to add waterfalls to a pine cone, I've created an…
July 24, 2010
Pine Cone
Pine Cone, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. On our way down to Kirby Cove, Mark and I passed this Pine Cone on the trail covered with green…
July 23, 2010
Back to Black
Back, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Looking at this photo in Adobe Bridge, it was the most underexposed of the set---and very, very dark. The histogram was…
July 21, 2010
HDR in Adobe Photoshop CS5
Athena, photo by Harold Davis. My article (and tutorial) HDR in Adobe Photoshop CS5 is now live on Photo.net. Here's the description: “HDR—High Dynamic Range—imaging is a technology, concept and…
July 20, 2010
The Riddle
The Riddle, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Briefly noted: What is the question? What is the answer? There's a story here. But it's carefully guarded by this…
July 19, 2010
Mission to Mission Peak
Mission Peak Sunset, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. On Thursday evening Steven, Eric, and I took the "steep trail" up the flanks of Mission Peak (above Fremont,…
July 18, 2010
The Dictator’s Architect’s Dream
The Dictator's Architect, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Briefly noted: This Photoshop composite includes pieces of governmental architecture from a number of places, including San Francisco's City…
July 16, 2010
Forest Light
Forest Light, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Driving back from giving a weekend night photography workshop last year I took the back roads on the Big Sur…
July 12, 2010
Faking Star Trails
Faking Star Trails, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. I faked these star trails. Meaning that this image is not based on an exposure, or combined composites of…
July 10, 2010