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...
by Blake Rudis | Mar 12, 2012 | f64 Academy News |
This weekend I noticed that my post processing workflow is continuously changing, my style is evolving, and I am working much faster than I was a year ago. I was curious about just how much my style and workflow has changed so I dove into my archives and pulled up an...
by Blake Rudis | Mar 9, 2012 | Topaz Labs, Tutorial, Video Tutorial |
Ever thought of using Topaz Adjust to make a High Pass sharpen base? It is a pretty neat technique that adds a little more umph to your High Pass sharpening without over doing it. I really like the Topaz Adjust 5 interface and find myself using it more and more in...
by Blake Rudis | Mar 7, 2012 | Helpful Websites |
I recently upgraded the RAM in my PC. I was in dire straits with my machine, running on 8 GB of DDR 3 1333 Ram. Sounds pretty fast right? Well try editing a 16 bit .PSD file that is 32″x36″ with over 25 layers, yeah that is a whopping 1.6 GIG picture,...
