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June 14, 2020
Announcing: A Pilgrim’s Tale: Walking on the Camino | Free Webinar Presentation
What: A Pilgrim’s Tale: Walking on the Camino | Free Webinar Presentation
When: Saturday, July 18, 2020 at 11am PT. Duration between one and two hours, including Q&A
Where: On your computer or mobile device from anywhere via Zoom. This is a free webinar, but Zoom authenticated registration is required for enrollment. The link for free enrollment is https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_srnAIs9uSAiarUHQqIy-MA.
Details: In this presentation, Harold will show images from his walks on the Camino de Santiago in 2018 and on the Camino de Portuguese in 2019. He will share stories from his adventures on the Camino, discuss logistics, and talk about the history of these fabled pilgrimage routes.
Harold’s presentation will examine the meaning of pilgrimages, why pilgrimages have been important to him and his work, and discuss how committing to pilgrimages has helped him approach the ineffable in his art.
There will be ample time for Q&A.
Meeting of the Ways © Harold Davis
Number of Seats and Tuition: This is a free webinar, but it does require prior registration. Seating (on a first come, first served basis) is limited. You must register via Zoom to be enrolled in this webinar! The link for free enrollment is https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_srnAIs9uSAiarUHQqIy-MA.
A lightly-edited recording of this Webinar will be posted following a time delay on our YouTube channel, Harold Davis Photography.
About Harold Davis: Harold Davis is a bestselling author of many books, including Creative Garden Photography from Rocky Nook, which can now be pre-ordered. He 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.
June 9, 2020
Announcing New Webinars: Harold Davis Presents
Phyllis and I are delighted to announce five new live webinars. Registration is now open, and details follow below.
We’re also in the planning stages with a few exciting special-event webinars, with superstar guest panelists, where all proceeds will benefit important causes of our times. Stay tuned for the announcements as this comes together.
Thanks to everyone who has made our webinars possible with your enthusiasm and joy in photography as we remain sheltered in place!
Light Box Photography in Three Dimensions | Saturday July 11, 2020 at 11am PT click here for registration. Click here for more information. “Want to take your light box photography to the next level? It’s great to photograph flowers for transparency on the light box, but what about flowers in vases and other three dimensional objects?”
Multi-RAW Processing | Thursday July 30, 2020 at 10am PT click here for registration. Click here for more information. “In this Webinar, Harold shows the possibilities of multi-RAW processing, when it makes sense to use, and discusses potential pitfalls. As a very real competitor to HDR processing, multi-RAW should be in every photographer’s toolkit.”
Hand-HDR Photography | Thursday September 3, 2020 at 10am PT click here for registration. Click here for more information. “In this webinar Harold discussed when to use hand-HDR in place of automated HDR, and when to use the two technologies in conjunction. He shows examples of photographing for hand-HDR in general situations, and also in high-key and low-key situations that are particularly suited for hand-HDR.”
Photography on Black | Saturday September 12, 2020 at 11am PT click here for registration. Click here for more information. “In fact, the most iconic monochromatic photographs frequently involve a black background. In this webinar, Harold shows how to photograph with a bracketed low-key sequence to achieve perfect black backgrounds, and how to post-process images to enhance the black-background effect.”
Photographing Bottled Light | Thursday October 29, 2020 at 10am PT click here for registration. Click here for more information. “How creative can get you get with colored liquid, sunshine, some glass bottles, and a camera? In this webinar, Harold will show you how he used these simple materials to come up with entire new worlds, recreations of Mark Rothko paintings, abstractions, highways at night, and much more!”
Clematis with Friends © Harold Davis
May 31, 2020
The View from Inside a Bottle
I inserted my Laowa macro probe lens into a bottle, a carafe, and a glass to make the images shown here from (literally) inside glassware. Interesting to have a completely different view of the world. I started with glass abstractions the other day (shown here) photographed more conventionally from above, then it occurred to me that I could use the probe to literally stick it inside.
The first view (and I will be processing some variations) makes the bottom of the bottle look I think like a glass ceiling.
Glass Ceiling © Harold Davis
The outward appearance of the next one is a mandala. For this one, the probe was positioned a little higher, just at the level of the opening to a parfait glass.
Glass Cathedral © Harold Davis
Looking down the structure in the next one from deep inside the glass, I see a bubble that could well be our earth, imprisoned and looking out!
From inside the glass © Harold Davis
May 30, 2020
Patterns in Glass
Well, I’m off again. This time, not on a road trip or great adventure on a pilgrimage trail, but rather a trip to “inner space,” photographing glass on a light box with a macro lens. Mostly, these were done in camera, which is neither here-nor-there as far as I am concerned—but folks do seem to be curious!
Patterns in Glass 3 © Harold Davis
Patterns in Glass 6 © Harold Davis
Patterns in Glass 4 © Harold Davis
Patterns in Glass 1 © Harold Davis
Patterns in Glass 2 © Harold Davis
Patterns in Glass 5 © Harold Davis
May 26, 2020
High Key to Low Key and Back Again
Today Phyllis and I gave the second webinar in our black and white series. This episode showed conversion to black and white, starting from a few images that I made in advance the other day: a high-key image (the egg), a low-key image (the nemesia), and something in-between (the tea toy robot). You can view recordings of our webinars on the Harold Davis Photography channel on YouTube.
The next session will look at some special black and white effects, such as the Ansel Adams effect, solarization, and so on.
Please consider joining us for another webinar, or the upcoming Creative Bootcamp four-part course!
Egg White © Harold Davis
Nemesia Wabi-Sabi © Harold Davis
Tea for You © Harold Davis
May 25, 2020
By Twos and Threes
Duo © Harold Davis
Sometimes my flowers come all in a group with no social distancing at all. Other times, my flowers come in twos and threes. Which do you like better?
Orange Triad © Harold Davis
Cactus Flowers
Down a few blocks, and around the corner, some wonderful cactus flowers bloomed in a pot on the street. Walking with one of my sons we passed the flowers in the early evening. Cactus flowers tend to bloom and fade quickly, and are mostly heliotropic. The next morning I grabbed my camera and tripod, and headed over to photograph these luscious flowers. The light was little on the harsh side, or maybe a lot on the harsh side, but—news flash—the light you’ve got is the light you’ve got.
Cactus Flowers © Harold Davis
The inside of this single cactus blossom reminded me of a spiral, or perhaps a spiral galaxy!
Spiral Cactus Flower © Harold Davis
May 20, 2020
Photographing Bottled Light Challenge
My Capturing Bottled Light Photo Challenge is now available for viewing (without charge) courtesy of Out of Chicago.
You can also purchase access to the entire set of Out of Chicago Live online conference recordings, I highly recommend many of the sessions created with passion by highly talented photographers. Click here for more info.
They Walk Among Us © Harold Davis
May 18, 2020
Eye of the Tower
In mid-February of this year, I photographed at the massive Tower Arch in the back country of Arches National Park, in Utah. Time was short because the winter day was coming to an end, and the four-wheel road back out to Moab was demanding even in good light. This was one of my last images of the day, photographed using a fisheye lens, looking west and south through the opening in the arch.
Eye of the Tower © Harold Davis
When I processed this image, I was mindful that the scene seemed very dynamic at the time because the weather was rapidly changing. I wanted to keep this sense of natural movement in the final image, with the clouds as a contrast to the solidity of the rock.
Here’s the exposure information: Nikon D850, 8mm-14mm fisheye at the 14mm rectangular fisheye setting, seven exposures with each exposure at f/29 and ISO 64, exposure speeds from 1/15 of a second to 2.5 seconds; tripod mounted; RAW conversion using ACR, and exposures hand-blended using Photoshop.
May 17, 2020
Red Poppy
All the richness and wealth in the world cannot compare with the worth and beauty at the core of a single flower, and how the flower makes me feel!
Red Poppy © Harold Davis
