by Blake Rudis | Sep 20, 2011 | From the Author, Helpful Websites |
If you have a Flickr account, or are looking for a good excuse to start one, you should join EverydayHDR’s group. Post your HDR pics and comment on others, constructive criticism is encouraged to help continue the artistic growth of the groups...
by Blake Rudis | Sep 19, 2011 | f64 Academy News |
I don’t know what it is with the spiders out here, but they are huge! This one, Charlotte, likes to hang out on our patio. One afternoon she built a web, the following day it blew down, that evening she built a web, that night it rained and destroyed the web,...
by Blake Rudis | Sep 16, 2011 | Intermediate, Tutorial, Video Tutorial |
So one thing I hate about long exposure photography is the noise that occurs in the black sky, even at ISO 100. Now take that noise frustration and multiply it times 5 when working with HDR long exposures. How do you fix it? Do you sacrifice the awesome look of the...
by Blake Rudis | Sep 15, 2011 | From the Author, Helpful Websites |
I have recently started a Flickr group, EverydayHDR Approved. I highly encourage everyone who is a fan of EverydayHDR to upload their HDRs to the group. Lets critique each other, make tonemapping suggestions, give each other kudos, and most importantly socialize!...
by Blake Rudis | Sep 14, 2011 | Product Review |
I recently read The HDR Book by RC Concepcion and boy am I glad I did. RC has written the best HDR book to date. I have read 6 HDR books now, while the others may have been decent and sometimes good, none of them have hit the mark like RC. You want to talk Post...
by Blake Rudis | Sep 12, 2011 | f64 Academy News |
I had a blast at Photoshop World 2011, I met some awesome artists and learned a ton about flash photography. Last year I spent a lot of time in Photoshop specific classes, but this year I felt much more confident in my Photoshop skills but I really needed to learn...
by Blake Rudis | Sep 6, 2011 | From the Author |
One year ago today I started everydayHDR after going to Photoshop World 2010. This year I celebrate the 1 year anniversary of everydayHDR at Photoshop World 2011! It has been a great year with 168 posts, 53 of which were tutorials. I will continue to keep...
by Blake Rudis | Sep 5, 2011 | f64 Academy News |
Last weekend we took a stroll through Kansas City to check out the Crown Center. On the way there we drove passed this awesome suspension cable sculpture. I love sculpture, it is actually an old past time of mine, I was once commissioned to do a sculpture on the...
by Blake Rudis | Sep 3, 2011 | From the Author, Helpful Websites |
EverydayHDR’s Extreme Soft Light Tutorial made it to the 20 Best HDR Tutorials according to Ants Magazine! The fruits of my labor are starting to be seen! Stop by Ants Magazine, they have some pretty helpful content floating about. ...
by Blake Rudis | Sep 2, 2011 | Tutorial, Video Tutorial |
There are 2 tools that are very powerful in Adobe Photoshop, yet very underrated and infrequently used: The History Brush and The History Palette. Many people have no idea that the history palette is more than just a list of what you have done, it is a built in...