by Blake Rudis | Jun 24, 2011 | Post Processing, Quick Tips, Tutorial |
Have you ever taken a ton of pictures and found out you forgot to set the white balance? Have you ever taken a picture with Auto White Balance selected and not received accurate colors? Both of those questions are yes for me. More often than not, my white balance...
by Blake Rudis | Jun 10, 2011 | Post Processing, Quick Tips, Tutorial |
Noise reduction, where do I begin… There are many ways to reduce the noise in your images and I can 100% guarantee that the next guy on the net with a self help blog is going to tell you his method is the best…. he is probably right! My method has been...
by Blake Rudis | Jun 3, 2011 | Post Processing, Quick Tips, Tutorial |
I was working on the bicentennial image last weekend and came a cross yet another use for the High Pass filter. Have you ever layered an image on top of another, changed the blending mode to say Hard Light, and watched all of your contrast and detail from the image...
by Blake Rudis | Mar 23, 2011 | f64 Academy News, Quick Tips |
I recently purchased the Olympus FL-50R Flash and absolutely love it. If you can find a proprietary flash that uses Through The Lens (TTL) technology, do it! So I had been thinking, “Blake, there has got to be a way you can use this flash in HDR...
by Blake Rudis | Feb 1, 2011 | Quick Tips |
Here’s a quick tip. A really easy Selective Deaturation technique for taking away the sky in an image. Open up a Saturation Adjustment Layer, use the drop down box that says Master as the Default. Switch it to Blues and drop the saturation to Zero. Like...
by Blake Rudis | Jan 21, 2011 | Beginner, Quick Tips, Tutorial |
One thing that took me forever to understand and use appropriately were f/stops. I couldn’t wrap my head around how f/stops affected my images. After years of shooting in Auto mode (go ahead throw tomatoes at me) I decided to figure out this whole f/stop...
by Blake Rudis | Jan 14, 2011 | Beginner, Quick Tips, Tutorial |
When I first started shooting HDR images I was astounded by how awesome the details looked. I recall telling my wife that the HDR process made everything look good, even horribly compose pictures. I took a whole series of horrible HDR images with no concept of...
by Blake Rudis | Dec 22, 2010 | Do It Yourself, Quick Tips, Tutorial |
On May 24th 2009 all of my camera equipment was stolen from my car. Thank God for Renter’s Insurance… It covers all assets in your vehicle too! It was a blessing in disguise as I upgraded my camera body and all lenses to the higher grade glass. I had to...
by Blake Rudis | Dec 17, 2010 | Beginner, Post Processing, Quick Tips, Tutorial |
I am a fan of breaking the rectangle. 95.99999999% of the photographs you see online are rectangles, with the occasional Square or Circle. Now, I am certainly not the first to put a border around an image, and I most certainly won’t be the last. Sometimes...
