Happy New Decade
Eye of the Rose, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This is a more extended version of Kiss from a Rose presented with my best wishes for a…
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December 31, 2009
Alstroemeria Medley
Alstroemeria Medley, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. I shot these alstroemeria blossoms (Peruvian Lilies) on a lightbox. I combined seven exposures at shutters speeds ranging from 1/4…
December 29, 2009
Kiss From A Rose
Kiss from a Rose, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. The lighting, photography, and post-processing of this image all had the same goal: to increase saturation and tonal…
December 28, 2009
Second Christmas of Katie Rose
Second Christmas of Katie Rose, photo by Harold Davis. Katie Rose enjoyed her second Christmas with full comprehension of the important role that presents play in the festivities. Those of…
December 27, 2009
Remembrance of Things Past
Remembrance of Things Past, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This is a high-key image, in the sense that it is predominantly overexposed from the perspective of a…
December 26, 2009
Joy
Yosemite Storm, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Read the original story featuring this image. Greetings of the season! May your new year be filled with peace, prosperity,…
December 24, 2009
My Night Photos on Nikon
City Dreams, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Read the original story featuring this image. Night Lights, a story about my night photography, is running on the Nikon…
December 23, 2009
Solstice Sunset
Stinson Beach Sunset, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. A virtue of the short days of winter is that one doesn't have to wait long for sunset. This…
December 22, 2009
Escape from the Shadows
Escape from the Shadows, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. A few weeks ago there was a freak snowstorm in the coastal hills above Berkeley and Oakland, California.…
December 21, 2009
Havana Waterfront
Havana Waterfront, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. I desaturated this image of waves battering the Malecon along the Havana waterfront, and also added some virtual grain, to…
December 19, 2009
Bestsellers
The initial three titles in our Creative series---Creative Composition: Digital Photography Techniques (Wiley), Creative Night: Digital Photography Tips & Techniques (Wiley), Creative Close-Ups: Digital Photography Tips & Techniques (Wiley)---have been…
December 18, 2009
Photoshop Credo
"I believe that digital photography is an entirely new artistic medium—it is as different from film photography as film photography was from what came before it." Thus starts my credo…
December 18, 2009
Water Drop Crossing
Water Drop Crossing, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. These two images of blades of grass wet with raindrops illustrate a digital solution to a technical photographic problem…
December 16, 2009
La Vie En Rose
La Vie En Rose, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. If you look at this Photoshop composite, the building blocks I used to create it may not be…
December 15, 2009
Straight Shot
Straight Shot, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This decorative central shaft presents a straight shot up to a skylight in the Edificio Cuervo Rubio---a stunning art deco…
December 15, 2009
Curves
Curves, photo by Harold Davis.View this image larger. Here's another, somewhat softer version of my variegated rose.
December 14, 2009
Puente Bacunayagua
Puente Bacunayagua, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. On the highway between the tourist beach enclaves of Veradero and the gritty provincial capital of Matanzas to the east,…
December 12, 2009
Stair Knot
Stair Knot, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. I should think it would be puzzling to be caught on this staircase---a giant knot apparently suspended in space with…
December 10, 2009
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