by Blake Rudis | Aug 25, 2011 | From the Author |
I will be hosting a walk during Scott Kelby’s Worldwide Photo Walk. It will be in Weston Missouri and I am extremely stoked! If any of my viewers are from the Kansas City area, sign on up and join me on the walk. I went last year in California and had a...
by Blake Rudis | Aug 24, 2011 | Helpful Websites |
Poking around on Google + I noticed a post by a great photographer I am following, RC Concepcion, for a website called 500 PX. It is a photography website that combines social networking concepts with highly professional photography. This place really has it all,...
by Blake Rudis | Aug 22, 2011 | f64 Academy News |
I was told all kinds of things while my beautiful wife was pregnant, things like, “Your whole life is about to change”, or “Just wait, you and your wife will fight about the stupidest things, things you never fought about in the...
by Blake Rudis | Aug 19, 2011 | Post Processing, Quick Tips |
Many times I need to hide my layers when I am working on either an HDR image with several adjustments or making a 60+ layer composite image. I find it very painstaking and tedious to click each individual eyeball to hide the layers to see how the image is developing,...
by Blake Rudis | Aug 17, 2011 | Product Review |
If you have never heard of Scott Kelby’s World Wide Photo Walk I highly suggest you take a look at the website. It is a great opportunity to meet up with Photographers, walk around and shoot pictures, and trade secrets about camera’s, camera settings, and...
by Blake Rudis | Aug 15, 2011 | f64 Academy News |
The family and I went back to Delaware last week to visit the family. It was a good vacation and much needed at that! We had a great time showing off the baby to all of the family that had yet to see him. We spent the week at my Mom’s house in Milford, her...
by Blake Rudis | Aug 7, 2011 | f64 Academy News |
In good old Dover Delaware with the family showing off the baby. Check out some of the pics around my mom’s place. Taken with my Samsung Fascinate and edited pseudo hdr with Photo Enhance Pro. I will be back to the normal schedule next week, have a great week...
by Blake Rudis | Aug 5, 2011 | Topaz Labs, Tutorial, Video Tutorial |
I was playing around with the settings in Camera Raw when I noticed I could make Pseudo HDR’s with the movement of a couple of sliders; Clarity, Fill Light, and Contrast predominantly. These Camera Raw adjustments are perfect for getting a HDR appearance with...
by Blake Rudis | Aug 3, 2011 | Product Review |
…Who is coming with me? This is the last week to save $100 on a ticket to Photoshop World in Las Vegas, NV. It runs from September 5-9, yep that is next month. I went to Photoshop World last year and could not have learned more about everything I never knew...
by Blake Rudis | Aug 1, 2011 | f64 Academy News |
Every once in a while I get the question, How do you work 40 hours a week, process all those HDR images and maintain a blog with a 3 month old baby? Well, it can be difficult at times, but I found he actually enjoys blogging with me. Put the baby in the lap and hop...