Exposing the Night Landscape
Photographers often ask me how to get the right exposure with night landscapes. It's a tricky topic. My experience is that the light meter in my dSLR is pretty much…
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June 28, 2007
Scanning the Iris
My Dad says he told a group of his friends that he just bought a $25,000 computer. Understand that these friends were a bunch of computer scientists. Everyone thought my…
June 27, 2007
Snakes and Ladders
Half Dome Ladder, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Back down from Glacier Point in the early predawn hours, I caught a few hours sleep and then started…
June 26, 2007
Half Dome by Starlight
Half Dome by Starlight 1, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Last week I went to Yosemite. As my kids might say, this was an "opposites day" venture:…
June 25, 2007
Midnight Rambles
Midnight Rambles, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. I took this photo of the view down Tenaya Canyon towards Half Dome shortly before midnight on June 21. I…
June 23, 2007
Myths, Metaphors, and Digital Photography
If you grant my premise that digital photography is an entirely new medium of expression, then you have to wonder about the prevalence of metaphors that use the techniques of…
June 22, 2007
Golden Gate in Summer
Golden Gate in Summer, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. A great bank of fog has covered the Bay area, so it's a little hard to remember that…
June 16, 2007
Beauty in the Belly of the Beast
Silicon Valley from Mission Peak, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This is a thirty second time exposure from the top of Mission Peak. It is looking down…
June 14, 2007
Digital Night Website
It all started when I pointed my digital camera into the void of night and was surprised by the results. In apparent darkness, there's plenty of "light" we cannot see…
June 14, 2007
Bokeh and the Zen of Blur
The term bokeh is used to refer to blurring in a photograph. Good bokeh is smooth and pleasing, whereas bad bokeh produces a jagged and discordant effect. This may sound…
June 13, 2007
Do You Know the Way?
San Jose from Mission Peak, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Jack was kind enough to come with me for another night hike up the beast, Mission Peak.…
June 12, 2007
Creature of the Night
(or, the Were-Photographer)
Point Reyes from Arch Rock, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. With all the night photography I've been doing lately, I've begun to feel a bit like a…
June 11, 2007
Twilight Turns to Night
Night Shore 2, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Looking south from Arch Rock the twilight turned to night. Individual stars turned to the star-filled night sky and…
June 9, 2007
Renegade Remaining Photons
South from Arch Rock, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. I left home after dinner. It took me a bit more than an hour to drive to the…
June 8, 2007
Night Shore
Night Shore 1, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This is a 180 second time exposure from Arch Rock in Point Reyes looking northwest up the coast towards…
June 6, 2007
White California Poppy
White California Poppy, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. I'm used to thinking of the California poppy as a wonderful red-and-orange ragamuffin that grows along our roads almost…
June 5, 2007
Will You Be My Lensbaby?
What has a flexible rubberized tube, like a short version of the hose you find on a vacuum cleaner, and a piece of optical glass at the end? Why, my…
June 5, 2007
Hummingbird Tongue
Hummingbird Tongue, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. The kids were all dropped off at school. It was Monday morning. Phyllis and I were sitting in our kitchen…
June 4, 2007