by Blake Rudis | Oct 18, 2010 | f64 Academy News |
This last weekend Sarah and I went to the Half Moon Bay Art and Pumpkin Festival and of course the camera came along. Her name, the camera, is Salina. She is the product of my stolen camera from nowhere else than Salinas California in May of 2009. At the festival...
by Blake Rudis | Oct 13, 2010 | Featured Artist |
Was that title corny enough for you Craig? Everyone welcome Craig Sparks! This Fleetwood, United Kingdom resident is by far the most creative HDR photographer I have seen to date. I am honored to feature him on the blog and am humbled by his presence! Craig has a...
by Blake Rudis | Oct 11, 2010 | f64 Academy News |
I finally did it, I have lived in California for 4 and 1/2 years and finally went to Yosemite! We have been meaning to go to Yosemite for a while now but hadn’t got around to it. Last Friday we made it a point. The route… Santa Clara to Yosemite, crash...
by Blake Rudis | Oct 6, 2010 | Featured Artist |
Jason Ruth caught my eye with his incredible HDR panoramas and architectural subject matter. From Hornsby, NSW, Australia Jason’s images never cease to amaze me on my Redbubble feed. After seeing his post office image (below) Jason became an instant favorite....
by Blake Rudis | Oct 4, 2010 | f64 Academy News |
*Disclaimer: This post has a happy ending!* I hate snakes, let me repeat, I HATE SNAKES! At least I did until today. Last week Sarah and I went to the Academy of Science, as you know, and we saw entirely too many behind glass cages. Even behind a glass case,...
by Blake Rudis | Oct 1, 2010 | Post Processing, Tutorial |
As promised, the tutorial for the “Lucky… 13” image posted on September 27. Masking is a crucial tool with Photoshop, if you are unfamiliar with it, the best thing you can do is get acquainted with it! I am not talking about speed dating either,...
by Blake Rudis | Sep 29, 2010 | Featured Artist |
As his map profile depicts, this guy is LOADED with enigmatic character. When I first asked him if he would like to be featured on my blog, this was his abridged (Much Abridged) response, “Hello (insert your name here), thank you for your recent inquiry on...
by Blake Rudis | Sep 27, 2010 | f64 Academy News |
The wife and I took a trip to San Francisco last Friday to check out the Academy of Science. What a blast! We spent 3 and a half hours there! We got there early, as we heard rumors that the planetarium tickets went fast. That was quite the trip across the galaxy...
by Blake Rudis | Sep 24, 2010 | Post Processing, Tutorial |
There over 7000 functions in Photoshop and over 6 billion people on Earth. If everyone in the world were given the task to post process an HDR image in Photoshop (given they had the knowledge), that would yield over 42 Trillion different post processing...
by Blake Rudis | Sep 22, 2010 | Featured Artist |
Hailing from Westfield New Jersey, please give Mike Savad a warm welcome. Mike has a unique and extremely professional approach to creating HDR images. Most HDR photographers create their image in Photomatix and do a slight to great deal of post processing in...
