When I Am Not HDRing…
I am compositing images. I really got into this art form long before my HDR endeavors. I really enjoy taking my own stock imagery and using it in my composites. I would intentionally go out in search of certain things to make my composites. One time I went on a...
Creating Multiple Exposures From a Single File
There are several ways to create an HDR image. I prefer to shoot the 5 exposures from my camera and tone map them straight to Photomatix and retouch everything later. But what happens when you only have one RAW file, you can tone map it by itself but sometimes that...
Floggia.com Review
I was recently invited to a new photography social media site called Floggia by Miguel Kudry. It is an interesting photography social network that is extremely easy to navigate and upload to. Both of these aspects are instrumental to someone like me. Someone who...
Back To Arizona
I spent all last week back at Arizona near Fort Huachuca. This time I brought more flashlights for the cave exploring in the Coronado National Memorial! In case you missed the last post about Arizona, take a little detour. While there was not as much down time this...
New Tutorial Page
I noticed that my tutorials were very difficult to find as you navigate Everyday HDR. I have been working toward making a one stop shop page for all of my tutorials. Check back often as this page will be evolving as the tutorials are created. I just started working...
Photoshop CS 5 for Digital Photographers Review
When I renewed my NAPP Membership I was offered the The Photoshop CS 5 Book for Digital Photographers by Scott Kelby at no additional cost, of course I took them up on it! You may be thinking, "Blake, why would you need an intro to Photoshop book, don't you throw out...
Tutorial: Fixing Shadow Noise and Highlight Blowouts
There is nothing I hate more with HDR photography than Shadow Noise and Highlight blowouts. These areas are especially common when tone mapping with Photomatix Pro. While they are very annoying, they are not worth throwing Photomatix out of my HDRsenal by any means....
Texture Package 1
I recently added a new product to the Everyday HDR Store, it is a very simple texture package. Applying textures to a photo is pretty simple and there are several websites on the internet to buy stock textures. My texture package differs in many ways! These...
Exclusive Access: Nelson Atkins Museum
After processing my pictures from the Nelson Atkins Museum a couple of weeks ago I could see that I really needed to use my tripod there to really make great HDR's. In order to take my exposures in the museum I had to increase my ISO to 640 just to get a decent shot...
HDR Tutorial:Dual Processing HDR Images
We have all fallen victim to the lazy HDRtist. You know, when you are processing an image in Photomatix and there are distracting highlight blow outs so you do everything in your power to fix them and in turn end up sacrificing the rest of the image. So you tell...
