Made It!
Well I made it to the new humble abode in Platte City, Missouri! It was a long haul and I took over 2000 photos from the passengers seat! I have a sweet idea for those pics too. Hopefully I will have my desktop up and,running by the weekend so I can post more next...
Combination of Techniques: Saturation, Texturing, Vignette
I just thought I would throw together a tutorial of a combination of techniques I have shown in the past. I was busy doing my normal workflow, when I noticed I have never really shown a tutorial on how to put multiple techniques together to function cohesively in...
Amazon Basics Bag Review
I finally bit the big 38 dollar bullet and checked out the Amazon Basics Camera Bag. I was starting to out grow my Slingshot 200 and was in the market for a new camera bag. I started scouring Amazon for a bag that would be both large enough for all of my gear yet...
Leaving The Bay Area
Hello everyone, I know it has been almost 2 weeks now, my apologies, but my little man has stolen my heart and apparently all of my time. I gladly give it all up, it is amazing how you can find the entertainment from staring at a sleeping baby. We find ourselves...
Michael Benjamin Rudis
Our little man in faux hdr with the polaroid treatment, courtesy of the 'pic say pro' app. 17 April 2011, 8 pounds 8 ounces, a strapping young lad like his old man! It is safe to say I will be taking some time off from the blog! Please feel free to gander at the...
HDR Tutorial: More Dynamic HDR
A pretty cool way to use two processed HDR images to make your final product pop off the page. I was also playing around with the Gradient Map function in Photoshop when I noticed a pretty cool trick for bringing out some more drama in my HDR pictures. I call it the...
The Gimp Review
About 95% of my tutorials are Photoshop Tutorials. That is probably frustrating for the less fortunate that do not own Photoshop. It is extremely expensive, I did not spend $900 on it, I didn't hack it either! My wife is a student so I got the student version of...
Going To Miss Moffett!
Last Thursday the Riggers, technical term for those who pack parachutes, and the Pararescuemen threw Sarah and I a little going away Barbecue. The food was amazing and we could not have been more thankful, those Riggers really know how to throw down on the grill....
The Good HDR Word Is Spreading!
Richard Sisk at HDR 360 Pro found my blog post yesterday for the Good HDR Photomatix Tutorial. I am honored that he reposted it to his site. If you have never been over there, you have to check it out! I added a link to my blog, if you don't make your way there...
Photomatix Tutorial: Good HDR and Fixing HDR Clouds
After many months of searching the web and seeing some horribly processed HDR images. I decided to do a more in depth Photomatix tutorial on how to make good HDR images and how to fix those damn electric clouds that happen during the tonemapping process! I may be a...
