by Blake Rudis | Mar 3, 2015 | Beginner, Quick Tips, Tutorial, Video Tutorial |
I have a Confession to make… I have never filled a Memory Card In my entire Photography career I have never once filled a memory card. I don’t even know what kind of error message my camera would give me if I did fill one. Beyond that, I really...
by Blake Rudis | Nov 19, 2013 | Beginner, Quick Tips, Tutorial |
Last Saturday I received a notification on my phone that a severe thunderstorm was on the way. I initially thought, “Sweet! I can try and get some pictures of it!” However, the storms usually come so fast without me being prepared that by the time the...
by Blake Rudis | Aug 6, 2013 | Quick Tips |
A successful gallery event is not difficult to achieve if you keep a couple of things in the forefront of your mind throughout the setup process. I will outline them in great detail, but first and foremost, you must understand the definition of successful. If you...
by Blake Rudis | Jul 23, 2012 | Beginner, f64 Academy News, Quick Tips, Tutorial |
Last week while my Mom was in town, we headed to the Kansas City Zoo. I still cannot figure out who was more excited, my mother with her 50-200 lens, me with my inferior 70-300, or my wife who continually stated. “I can’t wait to go to the zoo!” all...
by Blake Rudis | Jan 6, 2012 | Quick Tips, Tutorial |
So vignettes have hit the streets running as one of those awesome ways to make an image go from eh.. to Wow… I don’t want to like vignettes because they seem so cliche, but they work, they really work. They do a great job of diverting one’s...
by Blake Rudis | Dec 9, 2011 | Quick Tips, Tutorial |
Auto aliging layers in Photoshop is an invaluable tool for any HDRtist. It is very common to create a tone mapped file and use elements from the original exposures to enhance local areas. Photoshop CS 5 has a very simple feature for making image alignment a breeze!...
by Blake Rudis | Nov 2, 2011 | Quick Tips |
As a follow up to last weeks 5 HDR Tone Mapping Tips: Photomatix and the following weeks A Few HDR Shooting Tips, here are my top 5 post processing tips I cannot live without using Photoshop CS 5. I have several hundred tips to give out, hence all of the tutorials I...
by Blake Rudis | Oct 21, 2011 | Quick Tips, Tutorial |
I just woke up to an email this past weekend from my friendly folks at Olympus. This months helpful shooting tips are about shooting the autumn leaves. One of the main focuses from this article is the Exposure Compensation button and how it can help you achieve...
by Blake Rudis | Sep 23, 2011 | Quick Tips, Tutorial |
I have been experimenting a lot lately with speed light macro photography and I can easily say, I am loving it! Once you get the basics down and start popping off shots, it feels like every one of them is a money maker. I am pretty excited to see the bottom of this...
by Blake Rudis | Aug 19, 2011 | Post Processing, Quick Tips |
Many times I need to hide my layers when I am working on either an HDR image with several adjustments or making a 60+ layer composite image. I find it very painstaking and tedious to click each individual eyeball to hide the layers to see how the image is developing,...
