Shell Spiral, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Briefly noted: Close-up of a very, very small shell---photographed on black velvet, positioned upright using a pin, underexposed with an…
Sea Palms, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Briefly noted: Another version of the Sea Palm Forest, this one processed in a Photoshop Statistics stack using only four…
Sea Palm Forest, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Along the rugged northern California coast, on BLM land near the Point Arena Lighthouse, I stopped to photograph a…
Phyllis and I have finished our new book The Photoshop Darkroom 2: Creative Digital Transformations. In the tradition of The Photoshop Darkroom: Creative Post-Processing, the emphasis of the new book…
Dahlias and Echinaceas, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Briefly noted: An arrangement of Dahlias and Echniaceas from my garden. I love photographing flowers---and it is great that…
These two images of the female nude are abstractions---the female forms are composed as if they were sculpture or even a still life. In the Photoshop darkroom, to create the…
My new book Creative Portraits: Digital Photography Tips & Techniques is now available. This is a book about portrait photography techniques with a somewhat different slant. It's not just about…
Imagine photographing stars and star trails under the clear night skies of the Eastern Sierras with the guidance of two masters of night photography! Under the auspices of Star Circle…
Low Tide at Dusk, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This is an image taken in the China Beach area of San Francisco Bay as dusk was fading…
Annette, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Briefly noted: The reddish light in this portrait of the beautiful model Annette comes from a parasol she was holding while…
Romance of the Dandelion, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. I created this composite image in Photoshop to illustrate a book, Lane Von Herzen's The Unfastened Heart. Here's…
KT Cover, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. My new book Creative Portraits: Digital Photography Tips & Techniques is now shipping. Amazon will get it to you anywhere,…
No Yolk, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. It's not often you see a green wasp the size of a hen's egg. If you do, it is certainly…
Sunny Side Up, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This is a post about technology. Mostly, I like to write about photography and Photoshop in my blog---but sometimes…
First Blush Variation, photo by Harold Davis. Photoshop’s Image Apply Image command is one of its least understood—and most powerful. In my latest Photo.net column, I explain how to use…
Rose, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This is a grab shot of a backlit rose, found along the street---as much as anything with a 200mm telephoto macro…
Portal, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. According to Bruno Ernst, M.C. Escher contemplated creating a "fascinating" fairy tale landscape in which a magic ornamental gate in our…