Kaleidoscope of Flowers
Spring has come, and I know it's true because I have anemones and ranunculae to add to my tulips on my light box for back lighting. Fun to create a…
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March 18, 2014
Metamorphosis
The assignment I gave out on the second day of the Achieving Your Potential as a Digital Photographer workshop was to make a photo of something so that it looks…
March 17, 2014
Craneway Pavilion
"History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce," wrote Karl Marx. In that spirit, the photo shows the floor and windows of what is now called the Craneway Pavilion. It's…
March 14, 2014
Beneath the Berkeley Pier
The Berkeley, California Pier juts out 3,000 feet into San Francisco Bay. When originally constructed in the 1920s, the pier was over three miles long, and an integral part of…
March 11, 2014
Photograph San Francisco in Black and White—also Workshop Updates
Photograph San Francisco in Black and White Please consider joining me the weekend of Saturday April 12 and Sunday April 13, 2014 for a black & white photographic tour of…
March 8, 2014
Mandalas from a Crystal Bowl
Wandering the crowded aisles of Berkeley's Urban Ore---a somewhat dodgy cross between an upscale junkyard and a down-at-the-heels flea market with an added smidgen of green ideology---with my camera and…
March 7, 2014
Best Of Botanicals: National Juried Photography Exhibition
Best Of Botanicals: National Juried Photography Exhibition A Benefit for San Francisco Botanical Garden Call for entries. Entries are due: April 3, 2014 From classical to contemporary, from desert to rain forest, from bud to decay, the natural form…
March 5, 2014
Photographic Caravan to Spain and Morocco
Update: This adventure is sold out! Thanks for your interest. I am very, very excited to announce that registration is now open for the Photographic Caravan to Spain and Morocco…
March 1, 2014
Flowers Squared
I have been thinking about square compositions, for example, with these Nautilus Shells. So why not create some square versions of my light box flowers? This is actually harder from…
February 26, 2014
Today’s Nautilus
I've been photographing split Nautilus shells yesterday and today, these make such lovely spirals. Check out the monochrome version first: It's hard to think of another still life subject that…
February 20, 2014
Nautilus by Halves
To make this image, I photographed two split halves of a Nautilus shell on a mirror placed on a black velvet background. I lit the composition using natural light and…
February 19, 2014
Otus and me
I shot this photo of tulips in a crowd with my new Otus. Otus's more formal designation is the Otus 1.4/55, and is, in the words of the manufacturer Zeiss, quite…
February 16, 2014
Current Harold Davis Photo Workshop offerings
I have only two spots left in the Photographing Flowers for Transparency workshop this coming weekend (Feb 22-23, 2014) here in Berkeley, California. This is an opportunity to photograph your…
February 15, 2014
Tulip Pano
This tulip panorama was shot on a light box in three segments. Each segment is made up of six exposures, so there are eighteen exposures in all. In post-production, first…
February 14, 2014
Tulips
I have been working on a series of Tulip imagery that I shot almost a year ago, and haven't had the time to process before now. These were shot on…
February 12, 2014
Opium Poppies
It's perfectly legal in this country to cultivate the Opium Poppy, Papaver somniferum, for decorative purposes. But this pretty flower, shown in the image below, has long caused wild dreams…
February 8, 2014
Louvre Reflection
I shot this image last year during a night photography session with my Paris photography workshop. Paris is a great city to photograph at night, with many opportunities for dramatic…
February 6, 2014
Quince by Moon
Here's my red flowering quince shot, with the moon in an alternate position. Good argument for archiving one's layers unflattened---that way it is easy to go back and move the…
February 4, 2014