Stacking Waves
Wave Stack, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. I've been thinking about stacking as a technique to use for subjects besides with star trails. I've tried a spider…
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July 1, 2010
Dahlia
Dahlia, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. I found this nearly perfect Dahlia growing my garden, in one of the protected side-yard raised beds that I use for…
June 29, 2010
Star Trails over Drakes Bay
Star Trails over Drakes Bay, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. I made this image as a demonstration of star stacking for a recent night photography workshop I…
June 21, 2010
Introduction to Compositing
Shadow Within 2, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Read the original story featuring this image. My column about the wonderful universe of compositing is live on Photo.net.…
June 8, 2010
Forest Awakening
Forest Awakening, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. The forest is a wonderful and magical place. Wandering along the dreary forest floor past fallen leaves, branches and spider…
May 22, 2010
Winter’s Bride
Winter's Bride, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This is a Photoshop composite of a studio figure study combined with a number of shots of Yosemite in winter.…
May 8, 2010
Kellie
Kellie in Monochrome, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Kellie is a model with an obviously attractive physique. She's also a thoughtful young woman who is an omnivorous…
April 28, 2010
Using LAB Color Adjustments
Fireworks (Papaver), photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Read the original story featuring this image. My column Using LAB Color Adjustments (in my Creativity in the Photoshop Darkroom…
April 9, 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
Blue Mask
Blue Mask, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Briefly noted: A series of LAB color inversions turns the mask blue and the masked model a variety of exotic…
March 16, 2010
Sharpening with LAB Color
Ice Storm in Yosemite, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This is a photograph of an ice storm in Yosemite Valley. The lines in the ice on the…
February 4, 2010
New Harold Davis Photo.Net Column
Kiss from a Rose, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Read the original story featuring this image. My new column, Creating HDR Images by Hand [Part II], is…
January 20, 2010
Marin Headlands
Marin Headlands, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. On a bright, blustery winter day I wandered the Marin Headlands with photographer and friend Steven C. It's amazing how…
January 16, 2010
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
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