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 | Jan 7, 2011 | Beginner, Post Processing, Tutorial |
Every once in a while strolling around the net I see people that know Photoshop, but seemingly do not know its capability with text. I do not use it often in my images, but I frequently use it in designs for clients. Text, while it seems intimidating, is very...
by Blake Rudis | Dec 31, 2010 | Beginner, HDR 101: The Basics, Post Processing, Tutorial |
When I first started shooting HDR images my brain was convoluted with thoughts on how to effectively catalog my images for the most efficient post processing. I do not use Lightroom or any other program for cataloging my images, so I needed to come up with a way 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...
by Blake Rudis | Nov 10, 2010 | Beginner, Post Processing, Tutorial |
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....
