by Blake Rudis | Apr 4, 2012 | Product Review |
I was recently contacted by Unified Color to do a product review of HDR Expose 2. It seems it is still in it’s developmental stages but has plenty or room to adapt to the HDR world due to it’s many positive attributes. While it will not produce...
by Blake Rudis | Mar 28, 2012 | f64 Academy News |
HDR Concert #2 is now available for your viewing pleasure! Head on over to the HDR Concert page to see all of the submissions and their tone mapping and post processing techniques. Quite a bit of talent in the group as usual!
by Blake Rudis | Mar 26, 2012 | f64 Academy News |
About two weeks ago I was poking around HDRspotting and found a local HDRtist with a very similar artistic vision, Keith Moyer. You will love this guys work, check out his blog, Time To Take Pictures! He is a a great HDR Photographer that takes his work to the level...
by Blake Rudis | Mar 20, 2012 | Product Review |
The creators of Machinery HDR Effects 2 recently contacted me requesting a review of their new HDR tone mapping software. I am really glad they did as this is one powerful tone mapping program. Machinery adds many exemplary features to the world of HDR tone mapping....
by Blake Rudis | Mar 19, 2012 | f64 Academy News |
You know, there are a lot of people who take pride in capturing the perfect shot in camera and doing nothing to it in post, purists as they call themselves. They meticulously frame the shot, get the composition just perfect, adjust the exposure and white balance to a...
by Blake Rudis | Mar 16, 2012 | Beginner, Tutorial, Video Tutorial |
So by this point I probably have you sold on this whole HDR thing, but what about that damn HDR Noise? I like to call it HDN, High Dynamic Noise, and pardon my English it is a pain in the ass! However, there are some methods for getting rid of it. In this tutorial...
by Blake Rudis | Mar 2, 2012 | f64 Academy News |
I am reminded of the Back to the Future theme song by Huey Lewis and the News, “That’s the power, that’s the power of Curves”, oh wait that was the power of love. Anyway, the curves adjustment layer runs a lot deeper than you think in the post...
by Blake Rudis | Feb 29, 2012 | f64 Academy News |
A new page has been added to EverydayHDR, HDR Concerts. I will be hosting these concerts every last Wednesday of every month. The first one turned out brilliantly, I could not have hoped for a better turn out from the many excellent artists that were involved....
by Blake Rudis | Feb 27, 2012 | f64 Academy News |
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...
by Blake Rudis | Feb 24, 2012 | HDR 101: The Basics, Tutorial, Video Tutorial |
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...
