by Blake Rudis | Feb 8, 2012 | Product Review |
I recently added a new product to the Everyday HDR Store, it is a very simple texture package. Applying textures to a photo is pretty simple and there are several websites on the internet to buy stock textures. My texture package differs in many ways! These...
by Blake Rudis | Feb 6, 2012 | f64 Academy News |
After processing my pictures from the Nelson Atkins Museum a couple of weeks ago I could see that I really needed to use my tripod there to really make great HDR’s. In order to take my exposures in the museum I had to increase my ISO to 640 just to get a decent...
by Blake Rudis | Feb 3, 2012 | HDR 101: The Basics, Tutorial, Video Tutorial |
We have all fallen victim to the lazy HDRtist. You know, when you are processing an image in Photomatix and there are distracting highlight blow outs so you do everything in your power to fix them and in turn end up sacrificing the rest of the image. So you tell...
by Blake Rudis | Feb 1, 2012 | Product Review |
The folks at Topaz Labs are at it again, continually making great post processing products for the creative photographer. Their newest release is Topaz Star Effects. Star Effects mimics that star like pattern that lights emit at narrow shutter speeds. Shoot a lamp...
by Blake Rudis | Jan 30, 2012 | f64 Academy News |
I was scanning Google + yesterday morning, a routine I love on weekends as I actually have time to do so, and spotted an awesome frame tutorial by Scott Kelby. I followed the tutorial to a T and loved the result I received from it. Of course I felt as if I were...
by Blake Rudis | Jan 27, 2012 | Helpful Websites |
Today is usually free tutorial Friday, but I have been extremely under the weather and quite frankly do not have the energy to put that much brain power into a post. So I am going to do something a little different, plant the seed if you will! I recently spoke with...
by Blake Rudis | Jan 25, 2012 | Helpful Websites |
There is a new HDR tutorial resource on the web that is a one stop shop of HDR resources. Many of the top HDRtists have contributed to Farbspiel Photography home of the HDR Cookbook. I look forward to contributing to the site often. I am sure you will find...
by Blake Rudis | Jan 23, 2012 | f64 Academy News |
I have been avidly working on the images from my last trip to Kansas City and the Nelson Atkins Museum. I took a crazy looking shot of the upstairs view looking down on the granite staircase. It turned out to be a very great HDR image, but I felt I could take it to...
by Blake Rudis | Jan 20, 2012 | f64 Academy News |
I use a pretty slick technique all the time that I don’t think I have talked about yet on the blog. Have you ever been working on a project in Photoshop and wanted to duplicate the entire project without losing any data or layers? I do all the time. My old...
by Blake Rudis | Jan 18, 2012 | Helpful Websites |
My NAPP renewal ran out at the end of December, wait a second, you don’t know what NAPP is? That’s the National Association of Photoshop Professionals, an amazing online resource for anyone who is into Photography, Photoshop, and Design. So you still...
