I have read a lot of articles on HDR photography, many of them good, some of them just bashing it, but never have I read one that so accurately portrayed me. My friend Paul Ciura sent me this article recently about the Ten Steps Every HDR Photographer Goes Through. I must admit, many of them if not all of them, I can relate to.
Take a look at this list and see where you fit in, sadly, I am locked in Step 4. I am not sure if that is good or bad, though. I haven’t yet held a seminar in my home town, but don’t think I haven’t thought about it! Well heck, since I am at it, I will embed one of my favorite Youtube screen casts!
f.64 Academy and f.64 Elite are the brainchildren of Blake Rudis. While he is a landscape photographer, he is most passionate about post-processing images in Photoshop and mentoring others.
For Blake, it's all about the art and process synergy. He dives deep into complex topics and makes them easy to understand through his outside-the-box thinking so that you can use these tricks in your workflow today!
For Blake, it's all about the art and process synergy. He dives deep into complex topics and makes them easy to understand through his outside-the-box thinking so that you can use these tricks in your workflow today!
I enjoyed reading the link to the 10 steps of the HDR photographer. While I don’t offer any tutorials and am not as good as you are with HDR, I think I just made it into stage number 4. I suspect there are stages that one may skip over as they advance through the list.
I also enjoyed the video on the curves adjustments. That is a new way to do some of the things I have been doing. I will give your idea a spin and see if I like it better than my current workflow.
I feel it is a pretty accurate list and pretty funny! I know a lot of the pro’s say the curves adjustment layer is old school technology, but I feel it still has a major place in any workflow.