Topaz Adjust 5 Review
By now you have probably figured out that just about anyone can take a great photograph, but it takes a great deal of post processing to make an amazing HDR photograph. While that post processing is extremely important, it takes a large amount of time to get your HDR...
Computer Issues… Inevitable
I know already, all you Mac users out there are going to flaunt your infallible system that never surges or gets a virus because some little gnome gets paid in crumbs to ensure your machine runs with no hiccups. As you should, have an infallible system that is, I...
HDR, Digital Art Form or Legitimate Photography?
Due to some technical difficulties with my PC (by difficulties I mean a fried motherboard among possibly other things), I will not be posting a tutorial today, rather proposing a question. Is an HDR image a legitimate form of photography or is it a digital art form?...
Exposio HDR
Here is an interesting webpage, ExposioHDR, an online HDR processing engine that uses cloud technology as it's base. It reaches out to real estate agents as a way for them to create HDR images for the houses they put on the market. It is a very simple website that...
Room For More
I have been shooting for HDR since February 28th of 2010, about a year and a half. During that time I have shot 94 total days, I know this because I group my shots into folders based on the day they were shot, like this: I put together a tutorial on how to organize...
Vegas To Platte City Memories
As you read this, my wife and I are packing up our apartment and moving into our first house. Yep, that's right, homeowners, we are in for a treat I hear. Now that we are packing up for the third time in 6 months, I am reminded of our adventure to Platte City,...
5 Post Processing Tips for HDR: Photoshop CS 5
As a follow up to last weeks 5 HDR Tone Mapping Tips: Photomatix and the following weeks A Few HDR Shooting Tips, here are my top 5 post processing tips I cannot live without using Photoshop CS 5. I have several hundred tips to give out, hence all of the tutorials I...
Happy Halloween!
Happy Halloween everyone! I love this time of year, what can be better than pumpkin carving followed by fresh roasted pumpkin seeds? My pumpkin this year did not turn out nearly as good as last year, but hey, I have a 6 month old now and time is of the essence. I...
Cross Processed Photoshop Effect
Ever wonder how some photog's get those awesome Cross Process effects on their photos? No, I am not talking about the one click kitsch iPhone aps that I hope will soon spontaneously combust. I am talking about good old Photoshop effects to make that awesome cross...
5 HDR Tone Mapping Tips: Photomatix
As a follow up to last Wednesday's post on A Few HDR Shooting Tips here are 5 HDR tone mapping tips using Photomatix in particular. I have shown a few videos that go into Photomatix a little more in depth, but here are a few of my quick tips that I live by. 1. Never...