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.
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- Tone Poem, February 18 2009
- Tin Can Alley, February 10 2009
- Should You Choose to Accept, February 05 2009
- Cherry Blossoms, February 04 2009
- Changes, January 31 2009
- From Architecture to Fantasy, January 21 2009
- Flickr, Blurb, and Multiple Sclerosis, January 18 2009
- Black and White for the Digital Era, January 08 2009
- Oakland of my mind, January 01 2009
- Photographing Domes, December 22 2008
- Impossible Images, December 09 2008
- Digital Means You Are Never Done, November 09 2008
- Stacking Star Trails: Tips & Techniques, October 31 2008
- Katie Rose in Chiaroscuro, September 27 2008
- Between Earth and Sky, September 23 2008
- Avoiding the Normal Histogram, September 11 2008
- Tioga Pass Road at Night, September 05 2008
- Happy Birthday Katie Rose, September 01 2008
- Sierra View, August 27 2008
- Software Review: Fluid Mask 3, July 25 2008
- Art Is Where You Find It, July 19 2008
- Hayward Marsh in Black and White, July 15 2008
- Hayward Marsh in Black and White, July 15 2008
- Clinical Psychology Cover, July 11 2008
- Hands, July 05 2008
- 100 Views of the Golden Gate, July 04 2008
- Surf and Stars, June 29 2008
- Ringing Cedars Covers, June 26 2008
- Hexachrome Color, June 21 2008
- Hydrangea, June 18 2008
- Holding Katie, June 15 2008
- Flowers Are Stars, June 11 2008
- Interview with Harold Davis, June 07 2008
- The Birth of Katie Rose Davis, May 29 2008
- Great Horned Owl Chicks, May 24 2008
- Wright Stairs, May 20 2008
- Falling in Love, May 09 2008
- High Focal Range (HFR), April 26 2008
- Monochrome Shore, April 23 2008
- Night Trawler, April 18 2008
- Subscribe to the Harold Davis Digital Photography Newsletter, April 14 2008
- Asiatic Lily Bouquet, April 06 2008
- America at Home, April 04 2008
- Nautilus in Black and White, March 30 2008
- Schadenfreude, March 28 2008
- Darkness Revealed, March 27 2008
- Point Reyes Field Seminars, March 24 2008
- Close Encounters with Calypso, March 21 2008
- After the Wedding, March 16 2008
- Blossoms and Sensitivity, March 03 2008
- Photographing Nature in Studio, February 21 2008
- Upgrading the Firmware of a Nikon D300, February 19 2008
- Processing Noise, February 15 2008
- Press Proofs, February 12 2008
- Active D-Lighting, February 07 2008
- Photographing the Winter Sun, January 31 2008
- How I Used Flickr To Power My Blog and Got 1,496,603 Visits, January 27 2008
- Trifecta, January 25 2008
- Book Imposition, January 24 2008
- Nikon D300 Review, January 23 2008
- Improvisation in the Studio, January 18 2008
- A Sense Of Scale, January 14 2008
- Noise As a Historical Artifact, January 12 2008
- From Reflections to Abstractions, January 07 2008
- There Is a There There, December 28 2007
- Desert Night, December 18 2007
- Cosmic Swirls, December 18 2007
- Intricate Detail of Nature's Perfection, December 15 2007
- Intricate Detail of Nature's Perfection, December 09 2007
- Desert Night, December 01 2007
- Cosmic Swirls, November 22 2007
- Using a Polarizer to Manipulate Birefringence, November 04 2007
- Cars, October 27 2007
- Wave at 1/4 of a Second, October 25 2007
- Alignment, October 24 2007
- Toned, October 19 2007
- Weight of Water, October 16 2007
- Trawling for Moonlight, October 09 2007
- How High Can You Go?, October 09 2007
- Remarkable, September 29 2007
- Breaking Wave, September 27 2007
- Sensor Size and Depth of Field, September 25 2007
- Depth of Field and Aperture, September 21 2007
- Apparent Sharpness versus Optical Sharpness, September 16 2007
- Licensing My Photos, September 10 2007
- Using the Exposure Equation, September 07 2007
- Beyond the Fields We Know, August 29 2007
- Slipping into the Future, August 14 2007
- Fancy Feathers, August 09 2007
- Suspended Animation, August 06 2007
- Persistence of Vision, August 01 2007
- f/64, July 28 2007
- Multi-RAW Processing Versus Automated HDR, July 26 2007
- Iris ensata 'Azuma Kagami', July 21 2007
- Heart Like a Gerbera, July 19 2007
- Fantasy in the Key of Freesia, July 14 2007
- No Time to Be Lost, July 10 2007
- Star Vortex, July 07 2007
- Exposing the Night Landscape, June 25 2007
- Scanning the Iris, June 21 2007
- Myths, Metaphors, and Digital Photography, June 16 2007
- Digital Night Website, June 14 2007
- Bokeh and the Zen of Blur, June 08 2007
- Will You Be My Lensbaby?, June 01 2007
- Physical Prints in a Virtual World, May 25 2007
- When Is a Photograph Not a Photograph?, May 23 2007
- Why Take a Workshop?, May 18 2007
- Photographing Water Drops, May 16 2007
- Digital Darkness, May 11 2007
- Digital Darkness, May 11 2007
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Webcast: Photographing Kids, Family, and (other) Weird Things
March 18, 2009
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 shooting, showing us that Cameras don't take photos...
Webcast: Secrets of Digital Night Photography
October 17, 2008
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 photography has revolutionized the practice of night photography...
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...
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