Harold Davis

Harold Davis is an award-winning professional photographer and widely recognized as one of the leading contemporary photographers. He is the author of more than 30 books, including Photographing Flowers: Exploring Macro Worlds with Harold Davis (Focal Press), The Photoshop Darkroom 2: Creative Digital Transformations (Focal Press), The Photoshop Darkroom: Creative Digital Post-Processing (Focal Press), Creative Landscapes: Digital Photography Tips & Techniques (Wiley), Creative Lighting: Digital Photography Tips & Techniques (Wiley), Creative Portraits: Digital Photography Tips & Techniques (Wiley), Creative Black & White: Digital Photography Tips & Techniques (Wiley), Creative Composition: Digital Photography Tips & Techniques (Wiley), Creative Night: Digital Photography Tips & Techniques (Wiley), and Creative Close-Ups: Digital Photography Tips & Techniques (Wiley)

Harold writes the popular Photoblog 2.0, and is a photography columnist for Photo.net.

Harold is a popular presenter on many digital photography topics. He is a gifted teacher, and his workshops are usually sold out well in advance.

Photographic adventures and assignments have taken him across the Brooks Range, the northernmost mountains in Alaska. He has photographed the World Trade Towers, hanging out of a small plane, followed in the footsteps of Seneca Ray Stoddard, a 19th-century photographer of the Adirondacks, and created human interest photo stories about the residents of Love Canal, an environmental disaster area. Harold's work has been published in books and magazines, and as posters and greeting cards. His prints are widely collected.

Harold brings a broad range of experience to his work as a professional photographer and author. He has worked as a software engineer, an enterprise technology consultant, and an Internet company executive.

Harold is well-known for his night photography and experimental ultra-long exposure techniques, use of vibrant, saturated colors in landscape compositions, and beautiful creative floral imagery. He is inspired by the flowers in his garden, hiking in the wilderness, and the work of great artists and photographers including Ansel Adams, M.C. Escher, Monet, van Gogh, and Edward Weston.

Harold frequently collaborates with his wife, Phyllis Davis, on book projects. They live in Berkeley, California with their four children.

Google Advertising Tools Google Advertising Tools
by Harold Davis
Second Edition November 2009
Print: $34.99
Ebook: $27.99

Practical Artistry: Light & Exposure for Digital Photographers Practical Artistry: Light & Exposure for Digital Photographers
by Harold Davis
April 2008
Print: $29.99
Ebook: $23.99

Search Engine Optimization Search Engine Optimization
by Harold Davis
May 2006
Ebook: $9.99

Google Advertising Tools Google Advertising Tools
by Harold Davis
January 2006
Ebook: $23.99

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Webcast: Photographing Kids, Family, and (other) Weird Things
March 18, 2009
Duration: Approximately 60 minutes. Cost: Free Families, kids, holidays: we all want to capture them as fond memories, not stiff poses. During this not-to-be-missed presentation, Harold Davis will show us how to do so with more ease and fun in the...

Webcast: Secrets of Digital Night Photography
October 17, 2008
This is a free live event. Scheduled for approximately 60 minutes. In a letter to his brother Theo, the great artist Vincent van Gogh wrote, It often seems to me that the night is much more alive and richly colored than the day. The advent of digital...

Webcast: Creative Flower Photography
December 15, 2011
Surveys have shown that flowers are one of the favorite subjects of photographers amateur and professional alike. No wonder because flowers have an almost infinite variety of colors, shape and beauty. In this webcast, master photographer Harold Davis...

Harold Davis

"If you buy only one photography technique book this year, make it Harold Davis's Light & Exposure for Digital Photographers."
--Rick Smolan, Photojournalist and creator of the "Day in the Life" book series