by Blake Rudis | Jun 11, 2012 | f64 Academy News |
I was in Pensacola last week for some training and had a few minutes one afternoon to venture about. I stopped into the Navy Aviation Museum and had a blast photographing the Blue Angels on display. I don’t know much about aviation and sadly cannot tell you...
by Blake Rudis | Jun 8, 2012 | Beginner, HDR 101: The Basics, Tutorial, Video Tutorial |
Straightening images in Photoshop CS 6 is slightly different than Photoshop CS 5. Actually, Adobe made it much more logical! Imagine that a company that uses logic! In the past the straighten tool was lumped into the Ruler tool, kind of weird but it worked! In...
by Blake Rudis | Jun 4, 2012 | f64 Academy News |
As I am still processing many of the photos from last week, I am coming across some pretty interesting captures. The area we went to get that great pano of Kansas City is the World War 1 Memorial, it offers one of the best actually. After shooting Union Station for...
by Blake Rudis | Jun 1, 2012 | Beginner, HDR 101: The Basics, Tutorial, Video Tutorial |
My newest most favorite feature of Photoshop CS 6.0, drum roll please (oh wait you probably read the title), Camera Raw 7.0! Adobe has done some serious work on Camera Raw 7.0, on the surface it looks very similar. However, they have revamped the sliders in the...
by Blake Rudis | May 30, 2012 | f64 Academy News |
HDR CONCERT #4 is up! Follow the above link to see all of the entries in this months Concert!
by Blake Rudis | May 28, 2012 | f64 Academy News |
While for many Memorial Day is a three day weekend or “Just another Day Off”, please remember those who have fallen to make this great country a possibility! I went out this weekend to do some sunrise and sunset shooting. The sunrise was less...
by Blake Rudis | May 27, 2012 | f64 Academy News |
HDR Concert #4 is closed for submissions! The post will be live on Wednesday 12AM Central Standard time US. Thank you everyone for your submissions and feel free to download the brackets and experiment with them if you were unable to make it in.
by Blake Rudis | May 25, 2012 | Intermediate, Tutorial, Video Tutorial |
I recently upgraded from Photoshop CS 5 to CS 6 and I do not regret the $200 bullet one bit! I must say, I thought CS 5 was as good as it could get, but low and behold, Adobe created yet another masterpiece that rocks your world. CS6 is packed with more features,...
by Blake Rudis | May 21, 2012 | f64 Academy News |
Yesterday, I finally found some time to play with some other programs offered by Topaz Labs. Have you heard of Topaz Clean? It is a $30 plug-in that really helps clean up a photo. There are 2 presets I find pretty awesome with Topaz Clean, “SkinEven”...
by Blake Rudis | May 18, 2012 | f64 Academy News, HDR 101: The Basics, Video Tutorial |
HDR Soft recently released version 4.2 of their critically acclaimed HDR software, Photomatix Pro. I have been processing photos with Photomatix Pro for countless years and have found it to be my “go to” HDR software. After processing thousands of HDR...
