by Blake Rudis | Dec 10, 2014 | Product Review |
Topaz Glow Review Get Topaz Glow for $20 off through December 31st with Coupon Code : introglow Topaz Glow is the latest and greatest from Topaz Labs. At its most basic level, Glow is a fractal art generator. It makes your highlights and shadows turn into wispy...
by Blake Rudis | Dec 9, 2014 | Product Review |
It’s Hip to Be Square I just couldn’t pass up the chance to use the lyrics from an amazing ‘Huey Lewis and the News’ song to describe some awesome metal prints! I recently had the luxury of working with Ben Gasser and Bryan Azorsky of Tin Man...
by Blake Rudis | Dec 5, 2014 | Intermediate, Tutorial, Video Tutorial |
Tone Mapping Meets Painting Recently on HDR Insider I showed a full length workflow tutorial on how to make a great HDR image from a single exposure. More often than not, we get way in over our heads with HDR processing that we forget that sometimes all you need is a...
by Blake Rudis | Dec 2, 2014 | Product Review |
Mpix Modern Metals When it comes to metal printing you do have quite a few options out there now. It seems the practice of printing on metal has shifted from a trend to a standard. I like this new standard as HDR images look incredible on metal. As you may know, I...
by Blake Rudis | Nov 28, 2014 | Intermediate, Tutorial, Video Tutorial |
A Little Bit Sharper Over the last few years I have used many different Sharpening Techniques. I have found some better than others, from the High Pass to the Unsharp Mask to the various Plugins. All of these techniques are pretty great and do a decent job of...
by Blake Rudis | Nov 25, 2014 | HDR 101: The Basics, Tutorial, Video Tutorial |
There is Always a Place for HDR! Last Thursday I went and spoke to the Digital Dimensions & Beyond Photo Group in Kansas City. I will admit, I was very intimidated at first. I had to speak to all levels from the beginner to the advanced and some have been...
by Blake Rudis | Nov 21, 2014 | f64 Academy News |
How well do you trust it? While I was creating the Exposure Merging course for Exploring HDR the Video Series I had to use Photoshop’s auto align layers feature to ensure the layers fell directly on top of each other. Usually Photoshop can do this flawlessly!...
by Blake Rudis | Nov 18, 2014 | f64 Academy News, HDR 101: The Basics, Tutorial, Video Tutorial |
Not a Grunge Match… a Grudge Match! When I was putting together the course Exploring HDR: The Video Series, I had to record a tutorial for every HDR Method I use on a routine basis. This was kind of a chore for me as I am pretty fond of the Photomatix look as...
by Blake Rudis | Nov 7, 2014 | Beginner, Tutorial, Video Tutorial |
I have done several Black and White Tutorials. Several years ago I wrote a Black and White tutorial, I then recreated that in a video, and then there are the 3 hours and 40 minutes of Black and White and tone control in Black, White & Beyond: The Digital Zone...
by Blake Rudis | Oct 31, 2014 | Beginner, HDR 101: The Basics, Tutorial, Video Tutorial |
This is a great topic to discuss as Curves and Levels essentially do the same thing just in different ways. A reader of f.64 Academy and a photo buddy of mine (a very talented one at that) asked me what the difference was between them. It is a very...
