BaseCamp presents Harold Davis in Photographing Flowers for Transparency | Tuesday, February 25, 2025 at 4pm PT | Online webinar at your computer everywhere and anywhere | Click here for registration for the live webinar and to receive the recording.
What: In this detailed online presentation, Harold Davis shows his stunning floral imagery and explains in detail his process for light box photography. Botanical composition, exposure, and post-production are explained.
When: Tuesday, February 25, 2025 at 4pm PT.
Where: Webinar, on your computer anywhere. Click here for registration for the live webinar and to receive the recording.
Cost: $25.00 (includes the recording of the event)
Description: According to Harold Davis, “Light box photography is a joy on its own, and is a great form of photography to practice at home with relatively minimal investment in equipment. In addition, techniques that can be learned from light box photography cut across myriad aspects of photography—such as exposure and composition—and will enrich all aspects of your photographic practice.”
Special attention is paid to issues of visual representation such as chiaroscuro that have been integral to photography since its beginning, and to fine art painting since the Renaissance. Harold will use his innovative techniques to demonstrate digital techniques that allow the artist to deconstruct and reconstruct the scene in front of the camera, thereby allowing pinpoint control over the final image.
Bring your questions! The presentation will be followed by a Q&A.
In this webinar, you will learn:
- The benefits of photographing flowers on a light box
- When to use backlighting with flowers
- Understanding transparency and translucency
- Floral arrangement on a light box
- The three most common patterns of floral arrangement: bouquet, mandala, “en-masse”
- Understanding high-key dynamic range
- Exposing for transparency on a light box
- Combining exposures using layers in Photoshop
- Working with flowers: composition and patterns
Harold Davis is a world-class artist and photographer who has expanded the parameters of his field with imagery, new techniques, and as an author and educator. Honored with the prestigious Photographic Society of America Progress award in 2022 for his development of a unique technique for photographing flowers for transparency, these works have been described as “ethereal” and having “a purity and translucence that borders on spiritual.” (Popular Photo Magazine)
Davis’s most recent books include Composition & Photography, Creative Garden Photography, and Creative Black & White, all from Rocky Nook.
He is also recognized as a master of black and white. The Seattle Times put it this way: “Harold Davis is the digital black and white equal of Ansel Adams’s traditional wet photography.”
In 2022, two of Harold’s floral images were produced as United States postage stamps. Five new stamps were issued in Berkeley, CA on July 18, 2024. Harold was interviewed about his new stamps on KTVU-TV. The event was covered in the East Bay Times and elsewhere.
Translucent Flora: Photographs by Harold Davis was exhibited at the Helen Crocker Russell Library of Horticulture at the San Francisco Botanic Garden in 2023.
Harold is a sought-after workshop leader, who has led groups all over the world and taught and lectured at many institutions including the School of Visual Arts, New York, Google, Maine Photographic Workshops. and the Heidelberg Summer School of Photography in Germany.
Click here for registration for the live webinar and to receive the recording.