Vegas To Platte City Memories
As you read this, my wife and I are packing up our apartment and moving into our first house. Yep, that's right, homeowners, we are in for a treat I hear. Now that we are packing up for the third time in 6 months, I am reminded of our adventure to Platte City,...
5 Post Processing Tips for HDR: Photoshop CS 5
As a follow up to last weeks 5 HDR Tone Mapping Tips: Photomatix and the following weeks A Few HDR Shooting Tips, here are my top 5 post processing tips I cannot live without using Photoshop CS 5. I have several hundred tips to give out, hence all of the tutorials I...
Happy Halloween!
Happy Halloween everyone! I love this time of year, what can be better than pumpkin carving followed by fresh roasted pumpkin seeds? My pumpkin this year did not turn out nearly as good as last year, but hey, I have a 6 month old now and time is of the essence. I...
Cross Processed Photoshop Effect
Ever wonder how some photog's get those awesome Cross Process effects on their photos? No, I am not talking about the one click kitsch iPhone aps that I hope will soon spontaneously combust. I am talking about good old Photoshop effects to make that awesome cross...
5 HDR Tone Mapping Tips: Photomatix
As a follow up to last Wednesday's post on A Few HDR Shooting Tips here are 5 HDR tone mapping tips using Photomatix in particular. I have shown a few videos that go into Photomatix a little more in depth, but here are a few of my quick tips that I live by. 1. Never...
Pumpkin Patch HDR
We went to the pumpkin patch this past weekend, for all of about 20 minutes, but we still enjoyed ourselves and I was able to get about 20 shots off. One thing I need to tell any photog now that does not have children is this: No matter how well you plan a day, your...
HDR Shooting and the Exposure Compensation Button
I just woke up to an email this past weekend from my friendly folks at Olympus. This months helpful shooting tips are about shooting the autumn leaves. One of the main focuses from this article is the Exposure Compensation button and how it can help you achieve...
A Few HDR Shooting Tips
There are several thousand tips for HDR photography and I would be lying if I said I am going to give you the top five. The reason being, as soon as I give you the "top" five, I will remember 5 more helpful hints, and as soon as I tell you those, I will think of ten...
Lee G. Simmons Conservation Park
We took a trip over to the Lee G. Simmons Conservation Park while visiting the the family in Nebraska last weekend. This conservation area is part of the Henry Doorly Zoo. It is a pretty neat idea, you remain in your vehicle as you drive around a conservation area...
Fixing Dust Blemishes With Photoshop CS 5
As I stated on Wednesday, dust on the sensor is a horrible occurrence when working with HDR images. Often times dust is very difficult to see in a single exposure, but after a series of five are bracketed the amplification of dust is unbelievable. I recently had the...
