Flower Photography Workshop in Maine Coming Up Soon
Please consider joining me July 31 - August 5, 2017 at Maine Media Workshops in Rockport, Maine for a week of intensive flower photography---both on the light box and in…
Design for a Stained Glass Window Made of Flowers
To create this design for a stained glass window, I started by laying down a series of mallow blossoms in a loose spiral (the magenta flowers). Next, I filled in…
Dogwood & Friends
A Matilija Poppy pokes out in the middle of a covert of flowering dogwood, cosmos, old-fashioned roses, echinacea, and climbing mallows. Enjoy! Photographed straight down on my light box for…
Photographing Flowers for Transparency
Please explain your photographing flowers for transparency technique. Harold Davis is the inventor of a digital workflow and set of techniques involving specific kinds of back lighting that make it…
Stars My Destination
Stars My Destination, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This is a stacked composite of 27 exposures, each capture shot at 4 minutes, f/2.8, and ISO 400. I…
Spiral into Sunflower
Spiral into Sunflower, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Briefly noted: There are spirals in nature and grand artist-created spirals like Robert Smithson's massive spiral jetty. There are…
Hibiscus Flower
Hibiscus Flower, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This photogram of a hibiscus flower is a good companion to the Mallow image I created recently. Both flowers grew…
To dSLR or Not to dSLR
Pink Mallow, photo by Harold Davis. View photo larger. I took this close-up using the macro setting of my Canon PowerShot G3 mounted on a tripod. Although sophisticated enough in…