Back To Arizona
I spent all last week back at Arizona near Fort Huachuca. This time I brought more flashlights for the cave exploring in the Coronado National Memorial! In case you missed the last post about Arizona, take a little detour. While there was not as much down time this...
New Tutorial Page
I noticed that my tutorials were very difficult to find as you navigate Everyday HDR. I have been working toward making a one stop shop page for all of my tutorials. Check back often as this page will be evolving as the tutorials are created. I just started working...
Photoshop CS 5 for Digital Photographers Review
When I renewed my NAPP Membership I was offered the The Photoshop CS 5 Book for Digital Photographers by Scott Kelby at no additional cost, of course I took them up on it! You may be thinking, "Blake, why would you need an intro to Photoshop book, don't you throw out...
Tutorial: Fixing Shadow Noise and Highlight Blowouts
There is nothing I hate more with HDR photography than Shadow Noise and Highlight blowouts. These areas are especially common when tone mapping with Photomatix Pro. While they are very annoying, they are not worth throwing Photomatix out of my HDRsenal by any means....
Texture Package 1
I recently added a new product to the Everyday HDR Store, it is a very simple texture package. Applying textures to a photo is pretty simple and there are several websites on the internet to buy stock textures. My texture package differs in many ways! These...
Exclusive Access: Nelson Atkins Museum
After processing my pictures from the Nelson Atkins Museum a couple of weeks ago I could see that I really needed to use my tripod there to really make great HDR's. In order to take my exposures in the museum I had to increase my ISO to 640 just to get a decent shot...
HDR Tutorial:Dual Processing HDR Images
We have all fallen victim to the lazy HDRtist. You know, when you are processing an image in Photomatix and there are distracting highlight blow outs so you do everything in your power to fix them and in turn end up sacrificing the rest of the image. So you tell...
Topaz Star Effects Review
The folks at Topaz Labs are at it again, continually making great post processing products for the creative photographer. Their newest release is Topaz Star Effects. Star Effects mimics that star like pattern that lights emit at narrow shutter speeds. Shoot a lamp...
Awesome Frame Border
I was scanning Google + yesterday morning, a routine I love on weekends as I actually have time to do so, and spotted an awesome frame tutorial by Scott Kelby. I followed the tutorial to a T and loved the result I received from it. Of course I felt as if I were...
Forks Over Knives
Today is usually free tutorial Friday, but I have been extremely under the weather and quite frankly do not have the energy to put that much brain power into a post. So I am going to do something a little different, plant the seed if you will! I recently spoke with...
