by Blake Rudis | Sep 17, 2012 | f64 Academy News |
I was going through Adobe Bridge the other day and noticed some hidden gems in my vast collection of HDR images. It is very easy to lose site of your work when shooting for HDR, sometimes gems get lost among the brackets and tone mapped save file chaos! The perfect...
by Blake Rudis | Sep 14, 2012 | HDR 101: The Basics, Tutorial, Video Tutorial |
I have three huge pet peeves with HDR, some may say I hate these three things. I stayed up countless hours for several months thinking about how much I hated these three things in my HDR process and racked my brain thinking about how I could fix them. It is one...
by Blake Rudis | Sep 12, 2012 | f64 Academy News |
Tomorrow I will be attending the Kelby Training Live series with Matt Kloskowski’s Lightroom 4 Tour! I am excited to finally learn Lightroom the right way by a true subject matter expert in the Lightroom circle. Matt K runs the awesome Lightroom website,...
by Blake Rudis | Sep 10, 2012 | f64 Academy News |
I recently took a road trip out to Wichita Falls Texas for work. I had been there before, before I was a photographer, and I hated it. Now going back 10 years later, I actually enjoyed myself a bit. One thing I have realized is that photography makes any place...
by Blake Rudis | Sep 7, 2012 | HDR 101: The Basics, Tutorial, Video Tutorial |
A newcomer to the blog, Larry, asked me to do a tutorial on HDR Toning in Photoshop. I have never shown this on EverydayHDR before because I don’t really care for it as a Tone Mapping engine. I do, however, use it in another interesting way. There are two ways...
by Blake Rudis | Sep 5, 2012 | f64 Academy News |
….Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday dear EverydayHDRRRRRRRR, Happy Birthday to you!!!!! Well it has been officially 2 years now that I have been running EverydayHDR. It was a decision I made on a whim after a conversation with Matt Kloskowski at Photoshop...
by Blake Rudis | Sep 3, 2012 | f64 Academy News |
I was on a little road trip driving through Kansas, it was about time to stop when I noticed a sign for the Wyldewood Winery. I was thinking, “Well I still have about 3 hours left of driving, should I really stop for a wine tasting? Eh, well really how good...
by Blake Rudis | Aug 31, 2012 | f64 Academy News |
Sunrise Tips are listed at the bottom of the post! I really wish that sunrise were something that happened at the same time everyday. Well, I know it starts at the same basic time, the beginning of the day, but I wish it were scheduled. For instance, during the...
by Blake Rudis | Aug 29, 2012 | f64 Academy News |
It is that time again, the Worldwide Photo Walk will be kicking off in full swing on October 13th 2012! Be sure to check out the website to find a Photo Walk near you. I highly encourage you take part in this awesome opportunity! If you are in the Kansas City area,...
by Blake Rudis | Aug 27, 2012 | f64 Academy News |
The title says a lot about this image if you dissect the hyphen accordingly. While I did love this location for shooting HDR images, I went home with about 9 ticks on my legs and found 2 in my hair while driving home. I would say that I am never going back there...