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...
by Blake Rudis | May 17, 2012 | f64 Academy News, From the Author |
I wrote a Pro Insight article for Topaz Labs blog. It is featured on their page today. This company is awesome, I love what they do for artists around the world. What are you waiting for, go check it out!
by Blake Rudis | May 16, 2012 | Product Review |
Photomatix, by HDR Soft, has recently updated their show-stopping HDR software from 4.1.4 to 4.2.1 and I must say, they added some very nice features. Photomatix creates impeccable HDR results in almost any tone mapping circumstance; I would expect nothing less from...
by Blake Rudis | May 11, 2012 | Beginner, Tutorial, Video Tutorial |
If you are a long time EverydayHDR follower, you know that I did a dodging and burning tutorial in the past. However, I did not have a sweet microphone at the time. As a matter of fact, it sounded like I was talking into a tin can! I really felt the need to...
by Blake Rudis | May 7, 2012 | f64 Academy News |
This weekend was the “Sound of Speed” Airshow at Rosecrans Airport in St Joseph Missouri. I loved airshows as a kid and was pretty excited about this one and the opportunity to photograph the aircraft there. The downfall, I had to work all weekend as it...
by Blake Rudis | May 2, 2012 | Product Review |
Last year at Photoshop World 2011 in Vegas I met an amazing photographer, Nicole Young. She and I talked briefly about her book, new at the time, Food Photography: From Snapshots to Great Shots. Ironically the following night I won a raffle for the book we...
