by Blake Rudis | Jul 15, 2014 | f64 Academy News |
4 Things My 3 Year Old has Taught Me About Photography You read that title correctly. My son Michael is 3, and he has taught me so much about Photography. It started back in November of 2013 when we took a trip to St. Louis. We were about to go into the botanical...
by Blake Rudis | Jul 11, 2014 | f64 Academy News |
The CZS and the Top 5 Questions Yesterday I asked the readers of EverydayHDR via email what their questions were about the Color Zone System. I received a lot of great questions and, yes, I responded to everyone of them! I really do enjoy the interaction with...
by Blake Rudis | Jul 1, 2014 | f64 Academy News |
The Color Zone System I have been working like crazy these last couple months to put together the next Zone System Training Package. I first discovered the possibility of editing color similar to tone in the Digital Zone System. The results are spectacular! There...
by Blake Rudis | Jun 27, 2014 | f64 Academy News, HDR Insider Project Winner |
This Month the members of HDR Insider were asked to process a series of brackets for the image below and make the best possible greyscale image they could. There were over 30 entries, it was very difficult to judge, but these were the 3 that stood out among the...
by Blake Rudis | Jun 24, 2014 | f64 Academy News |
As we all know by now Adobe released their latest update to Photoshop CC. I attended the very well done keynote that was thankfully streamed online. That was a very cool touch, kudos Adobe! I have since downloaded Photoshop from the creative Cloud. It took me a...
by Blake Rudis | Jun 20, 2014 | f64 Academy News |
A few weeks ago I did a tutorial on finding and removing dust in Camera Raw 8.0. I was not aware that the techniques I was showing were specifically for CC users. I had a lot of inquiries about how to do the same in PS CS6 and ACR 7.0. So after some toying around, I...
by Blake Rudis | Jun 16, 2014 | f64 Academy News |
Last week I launched my eBooks on Amazon for free. All 3 for free for 3 days. The results of the launch were incredible! 14,070 copies were downloaded. I am ecstatic to see that many people will be reading what I have to say about Photography and HDR. With such...
by Blake Rudis | Jun 6, 2014 | f64 Academy News |
Dust spots manifest themselves as annoying circles in your photos. They may be a pain, but they are very simple to fix. If you want that professional look with your photos I highly advise that you watch at this video. The truth is, when I see an awesome photograph...
by Dan Waters | Jun 3, 2014 | f64 Academy News |
The following is an awesome guest post from Dan Waters: We all know the photography industry is more competitive than ever. The successful photographers are the ones who think like entrepreneurs and embrace the business side of photography. Simply creating thousands...
by Blake Rudis | May 28, 2014 | f64 Academy News |
This month I requested that the members of HDR Insider make the image below look better. I was mainly referring to how horrible the sky looked, the image itself holds much to be desired as well! All of the members did a beautiful job making brilliant images from...
