Come Back to the Valley
Come Back to the Valley, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. It's spring here in Berkeley, but winter still clings to the mountains. On a recent trip to…
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April 7, 2010
Hurrrell Lighting
Hurrrell Lighting, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Martha Blanchfield of Renegade Photo Shoots organized a most excellent workshop on Hurrell lighting. Led by photographer Rafael Hernandez, the…
April 4, 2010
Lines and Shadows
Lines and Shadows, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. In a monochrome, life is about edges, lines, and dark (black) or light (white) masses of shapes. The interplay…
March 26, 2010
Monochromatic Ranunculus
Monochromatic Ranunculus, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Sometimes old-fashioned black and white works best. Not that there's anything really old-fashioned about digital monochromatic imagery. As I explain…
March 23, 2010
Gauze Curtain
Gauze Curtain, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Photographing this model through a gauze curtain conceals---and at the same time gently reveals. Lit by one strobe to the…
March 19, 2010
Waiting
Waiting, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. My Mom came back from giving a workshop in Guatemala. Late last night found me at SFO to pick her up.…
March 9, 2010
Converting to Black & White
Courtyard, photo by Harold Davis. For a preview of my upcoming Creative Black & White: Digital Photography Tips & Techniques check out Converting to Black & White, the most recent…
March 7, 2010
Nautilus Solarization
Nautilus Solarization, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This a digital solarization of my black and white Nautilus shell image. The technique is explained in my new book…
March 3, 2010
Contemplation
Contemplation, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This is a portrait of Christianna, a professional model. I processed this image to bring out the contrast between her white…
March 1, 2010
Fabric of Stone
Fabric of Stone, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. I think this mid-key photo looks more like a textile or fabric than the reality it depicts: the vast…
February 26, 2010
The Front Side
The Front Side, photo by Harold Davis. This is a photo about lines, textures, and the contrast between smooth white and dark black. Really, this is true.
February 25, 2010
Pinhole
Cathedral Spires and Bridalveil Falls, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This is a view of Bridalveil Falls and Cathedral Spires in Yosemite Valley processed to simulate a…
February 24, 2010
Kimi Solarization
Kimi Solarization, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Speaking of solarization---we were talking about solarization, right?---here's a black and white photo of the model Kimi treated to virtual…
February 22, 2010
Solarized Hellebore
Solarized Hellebore, photo by Harold Davis. Solarization in photography reverses blacks and whites. Also called the Sabattier effect, in the chemical darkroom solarization was achieved by exposing an already exposed…
February 18, 2010
Mare Island Infrared
Mare Island Infrared, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. While on the topic of infrared captures, this is an IR photo of a drydock at the old Mare…
February 16, 2010
Infrared Alice
Infrared Alice, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This is a capture of Alice using a camera retrofitted to only shoot IR. Rendition of colors (or black and…
February 15, 2010
Split Toning in a Winter Vista
Winter Vista, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. To enhance this monochromatic winter vista of Yosemite, I used a split toning effect. I added a deeper sepia tone…
February 11, 2010
Black & White HDR
Capitolio Nacional, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This is a shot---or, more accurately, three shots---of the Cuban Capitolio Nacional in Havana. The elegant building is mostly empty,…
February 5, 2010