I photographed these Cymbidium orchid blossoms in a blue bowl placed on a black velvet background. Lighting was natural, ambient sunlight bounced off white boards and reflectors. Exposure and processing…
Many of my 2016 travel and workshop opportunities are already full, but we do have some selective spaces and also some travel adventures that are pretty wide open, as indicated below.…
There are some really sharp-eyed members of my photographic community! I posted a contest regarding an Easter Egg in a photo in my book Achieving Your Potential As a Photographer…
The title I've given this image, Totem and Taboo, is in part a reference to Sigmund Freud's collection of essays of the same name. Freud combined anthropology with concepts of…
Dead Tree, Seascape, and Sunset is an exercise in capturing comparative motion over the course of a fairly long exposure (ten seconds). The surf was rolling in below the bluff,…
www.asmp.org/strictlybusiness/2016/02/an-interview-with-pixsy-client-harold-davis/ Once I began putting my work up on the Web, it didn’t take me long to realize that I was on the horns of a very serious business dilemma.…
Curious about what's in my gear bag when I'm in the field? Check out this story from Zeiss! (Thanks Zeiss so much for the wonderful glass.)
An Easter Egg is a secret; for example, in software often it is a hidden pop-up window with an animation. In software, usually the Easter Egg is activated using a combination…
We still have room for two more in my very small group photographic tour of Paris beginning May 1, 2016. This is your last chance to register for the trip…
This image of Tulips in a Vase on White derives its power from its apparent simplicity. In fact, behind the scenes, I constructed the image with a certain amount of calculated…
I've written an article now posted on the Pixsy blog about my technique for photographing flowers for transparency on a light box: What are the steps to mastering the process? Surprisingly,…
The past several years during the great California drought the waterfalls on the slopes of Mount Tamalpais have been fairly dry, even in the rainy season. So what a wonderful joy to…
I photographed these Stargazer Lilies on a light box to show them on a white background. With one version (above) I added them in Photoshop to a scanned paper background.…
Inspecting some pink tulips the other day, I noticed that the demarcation behind petals and leaves was not as clear as I had thought it would be. With this flower,…
Click here for the replay of my webinar sponsored by Topaz, Beyond Photography: Painterly Effects with Harold Davis. Topaz Labs has generously provided discount codes as well (these codes are…
Originally published November 24, 2014. Editor's update: After publishing this post, I received a number of inquiries as to what I was doing traveling with "another woman" (Phyllis seems to have…
Originally published June 1, 2015. Editor's update: Phyllis eventually had to pay to have the couch hacked into pieces and hauled away. The response to the Craig's List ad quoted below…