My Sincere Apologies!

My Sincere Apologies!

Every once in a while I look back at the tutorials I have done to see if they are still on the money.  Apparently I have done everyone a horrible dishonor.  On October 8th of 2010 I did a tutorial about clearing up HDR skies, while it may have been somewhat helpful, I...

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Make HDR Panorama’s Your Batch!

Make HDR Panorama’s Your Batch!

Panorama's are fun, once you have gotten past the frustration and easily convoluted workflow.  A couple years ago I did one the archaic way, taking each image and manually masking them, it took me 4 hours. Those were the days of Adobe CS 8.0, which as I recall had an...

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Karl Williams HDR!

Karl Williams HDR!

Welcome Karl Williams to the HDR floor!  I am jealous of this guy for three reasons, he writes like a philosopher with a photographer's mind, he lives in the beautiful land of my idol William Wallace, and his portfolio is INCREDIBLE!  Karl knows HDR, he has an...

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Skyline Blvd HDR

Skyline Blvd HDR

The wifey and I took a Thursday morning stroll high above the San Francisco Bay Area.  We finally got the chance to travel Highway 35, Skyline Blvd.  It was a pretty amazing drive, not as awe inspiring as say, Yosemite, but none-the-less it was pretty phenomenal to...

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Multi-Processing HDR Images

Multi-Processing HDR Images

Have you ever been in Photomatix flipping through all of you presets trying to find that one that works perfect.  You see one that works for a certain area but not for another so you continue and find another preset that works for the complete opposite area but not...

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Something Different!

Something Different!

So I did some more research and decided I needed to update an old tutorial with some new information.  I updated the Black and White conversion tutorial to show the conversion techniques effect on a custom made CMYK/RGB/WK (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Red, Green, Blue,...

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Black + White + HDR = High Dynamic Contrast!

Black + White + HDR = High Dynamic Contrast!

There are many ways to convert to black and white with the 5 billion photo programs out there.  They are very easy to do and most of the time consist of the click of a button.  With one swoop of the mouse and a click you become the king or queen of desaturation....

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The Importance of Multi-Processing

The Importance of Multi-Processing

Last week I took a couple of shots around the Hangar at work (don't worry Uncle Sam, it wasn't on your dime).  It is the perfect place to find grungy looking HDR scenes, you know the ones that scream perfection in HDR?  I was very fond of 3 images and the one to the...

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Painting With Adjustment Layers HDR style!

Painting With Adjustment Layers HDR style!

I recently went to the beach where the wifey and I exchanged vows to forever love one another, regardless of the amount of time I spend with my camera and the recent addition of EverydayHDR, that wasn't really in the vows but it was implied!  I took a picture of the...

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