by Blake Rudis | Apr 4, 2012 | Product Review |
I was recently contacted by Unified Color to do a product review of HDR Expose 2. It seems it is still in it’s developmental stages but has plenty or room to adapt to the HDR world due to it’s many positive attributes. While it will not produce...
by Blake Rudis | Apr 2, 2012 | f64 Academy News |
I was on my way to the Kauffman Center last week to shoot it through sunset and couldn’t help but stop and take a few shots of this epic graffiti mural. I planned out a Panorama that would have captured this mural in it’s entirety, however, I made a HUGE...
by Blake Rudis | Mar 30, 2012 | Beginner, Tutorial, Video Tutorial |
I recently downloaded the Adobe Photoshop CS 6 Beta and I have to say I am loving it. At first the interface took some time to get used to due to it’s dark nature, but after about 20 minutes of poking around, I felt just as at home as CS5. Now, how will this...
by Blake Rudis | Mar 28, 2012 | f64 Academy News |
HDR Concert #2 is now available for your viewing pleasure! Head on over to the HDR Concert page to see all of the submissions and their tone mapping and post processing techniques. Quite a bit of talent in the group as usual!
by Blake Rudis | Mar 26, 2012 | f64 Academy News |
About two weeks ago I was poking around HDRspotting and found a local HDRtist with a very similar artistic vision, Keith Moyer. You will love this guys work, check out his blog, Time To Take Pictures! He is a a great HDR Photographer that takes his work to the level...
by Blake Rudis | Mar 23, 2012 | Beginner, Tutorial |
I am always looking for ways to make myself more efficient during post processing. While poking around Photoshop I learned a new trick using the Adjustment Window. It has always been there, right in front of my face, if it were a snake it would have bit me! Built...
by Blake Rudis | Mar 20, 2012 | Product Review |
The creators of Machinery HDR Effects 2 recently contacted me requesting a review of their new HDR tone mapping software. I am really glad they did as this is one powerful tone mapping program. Machinery adds many exemplary features to the world of HDR tone mapping....
by Blake Rudis | Mar 19, 2012 | f64 Academy News |
You know, there are a lot of people who take pride in capturing the perfect shot in camera and doing nothing to it in post, purists as they call themselves. They meticulously frame the shot, get the composition just perfect, adjust the exposure and white balance to a...
by Blake Rudis | Mar 16, 2012 | Beginner, Tutorial, Video Tutorial |
So by this point I probably have you sold on this whole HDR thing, but what about that damn HDR Noise? I like to call it HDN, High Dynamic Noise, and pardon my English it is a pain in the ass! However, there are some methods for getting rid of it. In this tutorial...
by Blake Rudis | Mar 14, 2012 | Helpful Websites |
Let me tell you a quick story and then get into where I could have used Dropbox, the ultimate free online storage resource. So, last year at Photoshop World in Vegas I am hanging out with a great fellow photog, Eric Doggett, we are talking photo stuff and getting into...
