Vanguard GH-100 Pistol Grip Ball Head 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...Truly Missed
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,...
High Pass Texturing 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....CNN Article On HDR
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
Captured By The Light
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...
A Great Blog To Scope Out
Over the past several month’s I have received many comments from Bibek. Bibek recently started a blog of his own and has some amazing pictures posted. Along with his pictures are occasional quick little tips on how he took the pictures. A great start to what,...
Oh The Places We Will Go!
My Wife and I purchased our Jeep Patriot last September, I had no idea we would see ourselves in so many different environments with this machine. The first place was pretty funny. We took Sarah’s cheap “woot.com special” GPS with us to Yosemite...
Photoshop Tutorial: Nondestructive Retouching
One thing I have learned over the last couple of years is how important it is to retouch my images in nondestructive ways. I used to do my level adjustments from the menu bar on the top of the screen, I used to use the blur and clone stamp tools on the layer I was...
Essential HDR
This week I downloaded the free trial of Essential HDR by Imaging Luminary. I am hoping the results I received are from the fact that regardless of your initial image sizes, the free trial version dumbs your result down to 1 megabyte. While this is a great strategy...
