http://www.digitalfieldguide.com/blog Digital Photographs and Techniques from Harold Davis Fri, 09 May 2008 16:44:34 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Pink Papaver, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. On a bright, but overcast, spring morning I saw this pink Papaver rhoeas in the morning dew. I photographed it head-on at f/16 for depth of field on the center, but a little less sharpness in the petals. Then I ... http://www.digitalfieldguide.com/blog/1244 Iris on Black, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This is an Iris ensata ‘Azuma-kagami’, from the same planting as my photo of last spring. I used the same technique as Falling in Love and Gaillardia x grandiflora, combining three exposures and painting them together using layers and ... http://www.digitalfieldguide.com/blog/1243 Wan Hai 505, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. For our second night of shooting in my night photography workshop we left the dark hills and went down to Port Oakland. Oakland is one of the busiest industrial ports on the West coast, and even in the darkness ... http://www.digitalfieldguide.com/blog/1242 Spirits of the Night, photo by David Joseph-Goteiner. If you weren't at the digital night photography workshop I gave over the weekend here in Berkeley and on location in nearby Port Oakland, then you're like most of the world. This was a workshop attended by a small, select group of ... http://www.digitalfieldguide.com/blog/1241 Gaillardia x grandiflora, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This flower is a Gaillardia x grandiflora 'Oranges and Lemons'. Gaillardias are native to North America, and are sometimes called Blanket Flowers because of their coloration. I'm using an eight foot long raised bed in my protected side yard ... http://www.digitalfieldguide.com/blog/1240 Star Circles 2, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This is my second forty minute exposure of stars circling over the Point Reyes the other night. The original version was horizontal. As this exposure progressed, low-flying clouds were sweeping across the sky, softening and darkening the scene. At ... http://www.digitalfieldguide.com/blog/1239 Golden Gate Reflections, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. There was a strong wind blowing at my Angel Island campsite, and my tent puffed in and out like a bellows. But a little after midnight, the wind totally cut out and the surface of San Francisco Bay turned ... http://www.digitalfieldguide.com/blog/1238 Great Horned Owl Chicks, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. My wonderful Pilates teacher Jennifer Durning told me about the Great Horned Owls in Claremont Canyon, Oakland. Three Great Horned Owl (Bubo virginianus) chicks sit in a nest about twenty-five feet above a wide path. While I was there, ... http://www.digitalfieldguide.com/blog/1237 Star Circles, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Two thousand four hundred seconds, about forty minutes. Actually longer, maybe three thousand five hundred seconds, or close to an hour, when you add in-camera noise reduction. I have mixed emotions when it comes to exposures that take this long. You ... http://www.digitalfieldguide.com/blog/1236 Wright Stairs, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This is a photo taken looking straight up one of the smaller, back staircases at the Marin Center, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. The results are almost abstract: I don't think one is quite sure what one is looking at. ... http://www.digitalfieldguide.com/blog/1235