Kelby Training, How Do I love Thee…Let Me Count The Ways!
I do not know if you are familiar with Kelby Training, if you aren't one of the best pieces of advice I can give you is... get acquainted! The guys at Kelby Training are amazing trainers and give up millions of excellent secrets. What you can learn from them for the...
Palm Tower and Water Tree
The wife and I went to downtown Los Gatos yesterday after meeting with a future client. It was a another beautiful day in the Bay Area, I hate to rub it in, but it was just shy of 70 degrees! I snagged a shot that described the day in pretty great detail. Earlier...
Beginner’s Guide: F/Stops, EV’s and ISO’s
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 thing......
HDR Efex Pro is PRO!
Nik Software has put out a killer HDR program, HDR Efex Pro. It runs as an add-on to Photoshop, Aperture and Lightroom making your workflow seem less from tone mapping to post-processing. I was impressed from installation to the completion of my first HDR image...
Cataloging Tutorial Update
My buddy Matt over at Redbubble pointed out a flaw in my cataloging post processing tutorial. I forgot to mention the program I use to see my raw images as a viewable picture thumbnail. This is actually a huge flaw in my tutorial and Matt was kind enough to point it...
Picnic On The Beach
You got it! The wife and I decided to have a picnic on the beach yesterday. It is January, but it definitely does not feel like it in the bay area! It was about 60 degrees and sunny, while a bit chilly, it still made for a great outing. Over the last 14 days I...
A Family That Blogs Together…
... stays together! My wife just started a great blog called Sticky Marshmallows! Stop in there and check it out, she will be posting recipes and all kinds of great girly things! Oh, and I am sure she will poke fun at me from time to time, I am an easy target!
Beginner’s Guide: Composition!
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...
Foreshadowed Future?
You see the depictions of the Apocalypse all over these days, TV shows, magazines, books, etc, you can't really get away from it. Am I sick for thinking it would be fun to live in a post apocalyptic environment struggling to survive, relying on everything I have...
HDR Images In Text
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...
