by Blake Rudis | Dec 21, 2011 | Product Review |
A lot of people ask themselves, “What can this product really do for me?” before they make a major software purchase. Many of those people might say, “Well I am a portrait photographer, will this really help me?”. I asked myself very similar...
by Blake Rudis | Dec 19, 2011 | f64 Academy News |
I am still post processing the pictures from Arizona. After visiting Tombstone, I took a trip out to the Coronado National Memorial. This National Park is completely underrated, I really wish I had more time to hike here, but it was a work trip after all. We did a...
by Blake Rudis | Dec 16, 2011 | Intermediate, Tutorial, Video Tutorial |
Today’s tutorial is all about how to make your own custom brushes. Custom brushes can be made from all kinds of pictures, pictures that you wouldn’t consider worthy of a brush, like rust spots on the side of a dumpster! You can use these brushes that you...
by Blake Rudis | Dec 14, 2011 | Helpful Websites |
I recently took a look at my Google Analytics and saw a huge wave of traffic coming from Lightstalking.com. I hopped over there and noticed they had added my Dodging and Burning tutorial to their list of things you may have missed in Photography last week. Pretty...
by Blake Rudis | Dec 12, 2011 | f64 Academy News |
I recently went on a business trip to Sierra Vista, AZ, a small town about 20 minutes from the infamous Tombstone Arizona. You might be asking, what kind of business are you in that you get sent to such a place, my response… For your own safety, you would be...
by Blake Rudis | Dec 9, 2011 | Quick Tips, Tutorial |
Auto aliging layers in Photoshop is an invaluable tool for any HDRtist. It is very common to create a tone mapped file and use elements from the original exposures to enhance local areas. Photoshop CS 5 has a very simple feature for making image alignment a breeze!...
by Blake Rudis | Dec 7, 2011 | Product Review |
I just placed the order on Mpix for our Christmas Cards this year. After seeing how amazing they turned out last year, I will never use another company again. We always print using the Metallic paper that Mpix offers. If you want your Christmas Cards to pop off the...
by Blake Rudis | Dec 5, 2011 | f64 Academy News |
I took my first HDR image on 28 February 2010 at Henry Cowell’s Redwood Forest near Santa Cruz, California. I was digging through my archives and found it, all somber and forgotten, poor guy. I looked at the tone mapped file that I did in 2010 and realized my...
by Blake Rudis | Dec 2, 2011 | Beginner, Tutorial, Video Tutorial |
Today’s video tutorial shows you how to successfully dodge and burn your HDR images without destroying them with permanent modifications. It is a really simple method of making a %50 gray layer over the image you would like to dodge and burn. You then set the...
by Blake Rudis | Nov 30, 2011 | Product Review |
When I first bought my strobe I set out to learn more about it, how to light an object, and how to make it all work. Lighting is a very tricky aspect of photography when you have no idea where to begin. I found myself reading several books, and while I learned a...
