Topaz Detail 3 Review
The engineers at Topaz Labs have out done themselves yet again! Topaz Detail 3 is not only a great program for adding detail to any photo that may be lacking it, but it boasts some awesome features that make it almost like a mini Camera Raw. Topaz added the ability...
Exploring HDR!
Well after about a year and a half of the eBook in the works I finally finished it. I started writing it around June or July of 2011, but I got really frustrated with how frequently my processes were changing. That made writing a book about my processes very...
Adobe Camera Raw and HDR Post Processing
Over the past couple of weeks I have been hitting my workflow pretty hard with the 32 bit workflows from Photoshop and Photomatix to the bitter diatribe about saturation and HDR images. Today I want to share with you my love for Adobe Camera Raw (ACR) and how well it...
Topaz Detail 3 Coming Soon!
Topaz Detail 3 is on its way to the wonderful world of post processing! Exciting news for us HDR photographers as it can really be a quintessential tool during post processing. I have found the capabilities of Topaz Detail 2 to be extremely powerful for recovering...
Shoot for the Moon!
We recently had a pretty nice full moon here in the Midwest. My wife went to take the trash out and quickly notified me of its presence. I, of course, had to run and get my camera equipped with the 70-300 lens. I started photographing the moon and realized, these...
Over-Saturated HDR Crap!
Yep, there is a ton of it out there! Over-saturated HDR crap that gives HDR a bad name! I know that may be a bold statement and many may take offense to it, however, my intent, my sincere intent is to help those out who may not see it that way. When I first started...
HDR Concert #9: The Color of Autumn
Download the RAW Brackets here! The 9th installment of the HDR Concert series is live today in the HDR Concert Page section. The brackets were graciously provided by Nick Marzinski. It was a color study assignment that went over very well. Thank you Nick,...
West Bottoms, Kansas City
This past Saturday I met up with Nick Marzinski, you know that cool guy that let us use his brackets for this months concert? He happened to be in the Kansas City area so we decided to make plans to photograph the West Bottoms of Kansas City. This place is intense to...
Concert #9 is closed!
HDR Concert #9 is officially closed for submissions! Be sure to check in with me on Wednesday for the results!
The Hue/Saturation Adjustment Layer
In general chromatic aberrations are a pain in the ass, in HDR tone mapped images, they are a root canal! Those out of control Cyan/Magenta/Purple fringes around tree branches and buildings can really make a great image look horrible! The good news, you can control...
