Nikon D300 Review
OK. I'm going to give the punch line away. I love my new Nikon D300. I love this camera with a passion that rivals that of my feelings for some…
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January 21, 2008
Existential Escalators
Existential Escalators, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. When I was young, they warned me about the escalators. "Once you step on the escalators," I was told, "you…
January 20, 2008
Improvisation in the Studio
Recently I needed to photograph flowers with a very specific look for an ongoing project for a client. These were controlled, studio images. While it may seem unusual to photograph…
January 20, 2008
Pine Branch
Pine Branch, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Phyllis cut this branch from a western cedar tree in the median strip of a major street. I photographed the…
January 20, 2008
Fluctuat Nec Mergitur
Glass Ceiling, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. I did a tour of the floor at MacWorld, and then with some time to spend before my panel at…
January 18, 2008
Trillium
Trillium, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. I photographed this tiny and wonderful wild Trillium in Steep Ravine last spring, and Phyllis just recently masked it onto black.…
January 18, 2008
Paper White on Black
Paper White on Black, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. We used the same black velvet background as I'd used with the sunflower. We used a pin to…
January 17, 2008
Sunflower
Sunflower, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. I photographed this sunflower as part of an ongoing project for a client. To achieve the simple look of this image,…
January 17, 2008
Seating
Seating, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This is another photo of seating at Memorial Stadium, scaled so that at first glance you might be seeing a Venetian…
January 14, 2008
A Sense of Scale
View this photo larger. Read the back story featuring this image. When a photo is about pattern, the thrill of composition can come from a dissonance in size. Is the…
January 14, 2008
Stadium
Stadium, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This is a photo of the seating at UC Berkeley's Memorial Stadium, notorious as the home of the California Golden Bears…
January 13, 2008
Petals
Petals, image by Harold Davis. View this image larger. We were proofing a 176 page book--Light and Exposure for Digital Photographers from O'Reilly--on our Epson 4800 printer using rolls of…
January 13, 2008
Noise As a Historical Artifact
In my spring release from O'Reilly Light & Exposure for Digital Photographers, I show that image noise can be used creatively. This material is in the ISO and Noise chapter.…
January 12, 2008
Wet Leaf
Wet Leaf, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. On a recent day of wild but intermittent rain it was fun to photograph this leaf during a pause in…
January 9, 2008
From Reflections to Abstractions
I sometimes wonder how I end up with images that are elaborate photo composites, having more visually in common with paintings than photographs. This images are born of photographic parents…
January 9, 2008
Active D-Lighting on the Dipsea Trail
Dipsea Trail, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. After several days of savage rain, with violent wind and pelting water that the winter Pacific storms bring, Julian and…
January 7, 2008
Crepuscular Shadow
Crepuscular Shadow, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This is a photo from my files. I took it in November, 2005 from a sailboat below the Golden Gate…
January 4, 2008
Hellebore on Black
Hellebore on Black, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Mike said he wanted to learn a little more about how I post-processed photos. So he drove down the…
January 3, 2008