Harold Davis's Blog, page 39
February 19, 2021
Better Red
Red Anemone © Harold Davis
Red Pitcher © Harold Davis
Red Tulip, Giverny © Harold Davis
Red Dragon Sunset © Harold Davis
Red Planet © Harold Davis
Poppies © Harold Davis
Red Tulips © Harold Davis
Red Tail Hawk © Harold Davis
Kiss from a Rose © Harold Davis
Sunset from Lembert Dome © Harold Davis
Pacific Sunset © Harold Davis
February 18, 2021
Missed the first feature? Now you can catch up before continuing…
Did you miss the first session of Processing Black & White: Landscape and Architecture? No worries, the webinar video has been posted (or do you just want a review?).
Easy peasy…first review the video, then sign up for the second session (whether or not you were at the first session) on Saturday February 20. We’ll recap, then pick up where we left off, with plenty of new techniques followed by image reviews for those enrolled.
Missed the January 23 session of Photographing Flowers for Transparency: Introduction? Be of good cheer, the recording is here. The follow-on webinar, Photographing Flowers for Transparency: Composition and Photography is scheduled for Saturday February 27. Click here for registration, and here for more info.
Gazania Solar Flare © Harold Davis
February 17, 2021
Color Me Purple
Purple Haze © Harold Davis
Pom Pom Chrysanthemum Purple © Harold Davis
Tulip Society © Harold Davis
Purple Cala Lily © Harold Davis
Colorado River © Harold Davis
Great Beach, Point Reyes © Harold Davis
South Farallon Island © Harold Davis
Death Valley Sunrise © Harold Davis
San Francisco Sunset © Harold Davis
Alabama Hills Star Trails © Harold Davis
Azalea Sunset © Harold Davis
February 16, 2021
Rhapsody in Blue
Blue Danube © Harold Davis
Blue Velvet Sunset © Harold Davis
In a Blue Hour © Harold Davis
Blue Distance 2 © Harold Davis
Inside the Blue Kasbah, Rabat © Harold Davis
Blue #1 © Harold Davis
February 15, 2021
Coming Up This Saturday: Black & White—Night Photo Panel April 3
Processing Black & White: Landscape and Architecture #2 is scheduled for this Saturday, February 20, 2021 at 11:00am PT. Click here for registration, and here for more information.
I’m very excited to see what the photographers in the first session have come up with regarding the assignment suggestions. If you missed the previous session, you are welcome to join us for this session regardless. You can submit up to four images with the themes Repetition, High-Key, Low-Key, and Old-Fashioned Look (we send out information on how to submit your images for review to registered participants).
Roadside, Nevada © Harold Davis
We’re very excited to be hosting a Night Photography panel on April 3, 2021. Distinguished night photographers Steven Christenson and Jeff Sullivan—both previous years winners of the International Astronomy Photographer award—will be joining me for a rocking, information panel discussion that should interest all photographic “creatures of the night.” All proceeds from this panel webinar presentation will benefit the Alameda County Community Foodbank. Click here to register, and here for more information.
Image credit: © Jeff Sullivan
Click here for our scheduled webinars and events, and here for recordings of previous webinars!
February 13, 2021
Happy Valentine’s Day
In this pandemic year, amorous propensities may not be running high, and the ability to deliver romantic tchotkes is diminished. But I think Valentine’s Day is sweet. The world could always use more love.
I’d like to dedicate this heart-on-a-light-box to my sweetheart, Phyllis.
Translucent Heart © Harold Davis
Valentine’s Day is something of an ersatz holiday, with made-to-order Hallmark cards, chocolate, and roses. The historical origins are murky, to say the least: there were several martyrs named “Valentine” slaughtered by Roman authorities that the Catholic church elevated to sainthood. Also Roman: the festival of Lupercalia, roughly February 13 – February 15. This extended party involved animal sacrifice, drinking, sex, and flagellation. Pretty far from today’s canonical ‘Hallmark’ holiday!
In the 5th Century A.D., Pope Gelasius I probably laid the foundations for the modern holiday by combining commemoration for the martyrs (St. Valentine’s Day) with the old pagan holiday of Lupercalia.
To Hades with historical origins! Let’s love each other, and enjoy Valentine’s Day!
February 12, 2021
Monochromatic Visions Portfolio
We’re pleased to be able to offer my Monochromatic Visions Portfolio at a still fairly affordable price ($1200). There are only two portfolios left at this price.
Monochromatic Visions portfolio © Harold Davis
The twelve images in the portfolio are shown above, and the actual prints curing from a portfolio we sold to a very nice collector over the summer are shown below.
Monochromatic Visions Portfolio prints © Harold Davis
Please contact us with questions, or if you are interested in acquiring one of these portfolios!
February 7, 2021
Fruits and Vegetables on the Light Box Webinar Saturday February 13
What can you photograph on a light box? It turns out: just about anything that is translucent. In particular, early in the pandemic year Harold had fun experimenting with fruits and vegetables on the light box at the behest of an art director.
In this webinar premiere (there’s a first time for everything!) Harold & Phyllis will show some of Harold’s fruit and vegetable work, explain the tools they use, show aspects of fruit and vegetable composition, and process some of these images in real time so you can watch. As always, there will be plenty of time for you to ask questions that Harold & Phyllis will do their best to answer.
Click here to register for this unique webinar, and here for more information.
Pear Slices © Harold Davis
Atomic Cucumbers © Harold Davis
February 5, 2021
Pandemic Print Pricing Offer Still Applies
I’d like to remind potential print collectors that we are still offering a “pandemic” print special (please click the link for the details of our specially-priced offer). I am optimistic and hopeful that widespread vaccination will end the pandemic this spring. Returning to a new normal will mean an end to our pandemic print special. So if collecting one of my prints at a very special price interests you, please don’t delay!
During the pandemic, it has been great to be able to put my work in tangible form in the hands of collectors at an affordable price, and great when I hear from a discerning print recipient (as I did the other day): “Thanks Harold for the print. It is deliciously delicate and I love it!” Another collector writes “[Our print is] so beautiful and we will enjoy it in our home. We knew it would be wonderful, but this far exceeds what we imagined.”
It is worth pointing out that pandemic print special applies to almost all of my images. The choice of image is yours, and I will try to match the image with the best paper to make the most graceful and beautiful print possible!
Peonies mon Amour © Harold Davis, shown on washi with ink stamp
February 1, 2021
Black and White Landscape and Architecture Webinar on Saturday Feb 6
Please consider joining us for Processing Black & White: Landscape and Architecture on Saturday February 6, 2021 at 11:00am PT.
Click here to register for this webinar, here to see our schedule of upcoming webinars, and here for webinar recordings.
Webinar description: In this detailed presentation, Harold Davis explains overall best practices for a digital black & white workflow. Harold will explain a variety of monochromatic conversion techniques. Strategies for putting all these techniques together in a single image with pinpoint control over different areas will be explained.
This presentation will particularly emphasize landscape and architectural photography.
Rooftops of Paris © Harold Davis
Participant submissions for photo critiquing: There will be an opportunity for participants to submit images for online constructive critique during the webinar. Submission instructions will follow after enrollment and images will be chosen for critique at the discretion of the instructor.
In addition, one or more assignments will be given for participants, with the plan of presenting some of these images at the second Black & White session on February 20, 2012.
There will be ample time for Q&A.
Who should attend: Anyone interested in digital monochromatic photography.
About Harold Davis: Harold Davis is a bestselling author of many books, including Creative Black & White 2nd edition (Rocky Nook) and The Photographer’s Black & White Handbook (Monacelli). According to the Seattle Book Review, Harold Davis’s photography “is the digital black and white equal of Ansel Adams’s traditional wet photography.”
Harold is the developer of a unique technique for photographing flowers for transparency, a Moab Master, and a Zeiss Ambassador. He is an internationally known photographer and a sought-after workshop leader. His website is www.digitalfieldguide.com.
Click here to register for this webinar, here to see our schedule of upcoming webinars, and here for webinar recordings.
Under the Yaquina Bay Bridge © Harold Davis
