Growing Up…
Growing up is interesting, because if you forget about it it really sneeks up on you. When I was 12 I couldn't wait to grow up. I dreamed of having a wife, a house, a decent job, and 1.2 kids. I must have been stuck on that dream for about 7 years, then I went to...
Old Photograph Effect
Today's tutorial will show you how to recreate that old photo look on your HDR images. I was inspired by Alfred Stieglitz and thought I would try my hand at emulating the old world photo look. Take a look at the before and after to see if this tutorial interests...
HDR Spotting
There are several places on the net to post your HDR works. One in particular that is filled with amazing HDRtist's is HDR Spotting. It is a product of Stuck In Customs, Tray Ratcliffe's blog. The principle is simple, you get an invite from someone, you upload your...
Nature Prevails
It is difficult to come up with something new every week when you live in Missouri. It was so much easier when the coast was practically in the backyard, well more like 30 minutes away, but you get the point. It is very easy to be a landscape HDR photog in...
Topaz Adjust 5 Tutorial
Here is the Topaz Adjust 5 tutorial, a follow up to the recent review. The more I play with Topaz Adjust 5 the more I love it. These guys really knew what they were doing with this plug-in, they have made some epic adjustments to an already incredible program....
Topaz Adjust 5 Review
By now you have probably figured out that just about anyone can take a great photograph, but it takes a great deal of post processing to make an amazing HDR photograph. While that post processing is extremely important, it takes a large amount of time to get your HDR...
Computer Issues… Inevitable
I know already, all you Mac users out there are going to flaunt your infallible system that never surges or gets a virus because some little gnome gets paid in crumbs to ensure your machine runs with no hiccups. As you should, have an infallible system that is, I...
HDR, Digital Art Form or Legitimate Photography?
Due to some technical difficulties with my PC (by difficulties I mean a fried motherboard among possibly other things), I will not be posting a tutorial today, rather proposing a question. Is an HDR image a legitimate form of photography or is it a digital art form?...
Exposio HDR
Here is an interesting webpage, ExposioHDR, an online HDR processing engine that uses cloud technology as it's base. It reaches out to real estate agents as a way for them to create HDR images for the houses they put on the market. It is a very simple website that...
Room For More
I have been shooting for HDR since February 28th of 2010, about a year and a half. During that time I have shot 94 total days, I know this because I group my shots into folders based on the day they were shot, like this: I put together a tutorial on how to organize...
