by Blake Rudis | Mar 28, 2011 | f64 Academy News |
Saturday morning I woke up and thought, “Blake, you have never HDR’ed the Golden Gate Bridge, successfully anyway!” So I texted my good friend Eric, yep the same guy that I went on the shoot with a couple weeks ago, you know the one...
by Blake Rudis | Mar 25, 2011 | Intermediate, Post Processing, Video Tutorial |
I have finished the Polaroid template and have it up for grabs. Also today’s tutorial will be all about how to download it, install it, and make your own in Adobe Photoshop. So let’s get right down to it! Download the Polaroid Goodies! package from my...
by Blake Rudis | Mar 23, 2011 | f64 Academy News, Quick Tips |
I recently purchased the Olympus FL-50R Flash and absolutely love it. If you can find a proprietary flash that uses Through The Lens (TTL) technology, do it! So I had been thinking, “Blake, there has got to be a way you can use this flash in HDR...
by Blake Rudis | Mar 21, 2011 | f64 Academy News |
So last Friday I posted the tutorial on achieving the Polaroid look with color Balance, Saturation, and a gritty texture. I had almost completed my Polaroid border, but it wasn’t complete enough for me to share with the rest of you. After a couple of strategic...
by Blake Rudis | Mar 18, 2011 | Intermediate, Tutorial, Video Tutorial |
I have been working on trying to make my images look like old Polaroid pictures, the ones with the washed out look. For the past week I have been trying to replicate that tactile Polaroid as well. I know it is as easy as going to Image > Canvas Size and making a...
by Blake Rudis | Mar 16, 2011 | Product Review |
A tripod is an essential piece of equipment for HDR photography. More important than the legs that hold up the camera is the ball head upon which you rest it. For many months I have been using the Induro ball head (SA-0) that came with my tripod, but after many...
by Blake Rudis | Mar 14, 2011 | f64 Academy News |
It is with deep sadness that today I inform you that the creator of this wonderfully educational blog is not able to “wow” you with his plethora of HDR knowledge. He is very ill, something he ate. So instead he has asked me to post something about my blog,...
by Blake Rudis | Mar 11, 2011 | Intermediate, Tutorial, Video Tutorial |
Today I am going to show you a break through method of texturing an image with a couple of other tips and tricks of course. I call this method “Break-Through” because I have never seen it before and it has some serious potential for texturing images....
by Blake Rudis | Mar 10, 2011 | f64 Academy News |
A simple HDR shout out on CNN. The problem is they make reference to programs that do HDR to a single photo…. Oh no! http://www.cnn.com/2011/IREPORT/03/08/hdr.photos.irpt/index.html?hpt=C2
by Blake Rudis | Mar 9, 2011 | Product Review |
Well, I got to page 88 in Lights, Camera, Capture before I threw in the towel, I apologize to anyone who may have bought it after my post. I could not take the horrible grammatical errors, misspellings, horrible story telling, and inaccurate picture to caption...