by Blake Rudis | Nov 21, 2011 | f64 Academy News |
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...
by Blake Rudis | Nov 16, 2011 | Product 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...
by Blake Rudis | Nov 11, 2011 | From the Author |
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?...
by Blake Rudis | Nov 9, 2011 | f64 Academy News |
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...
by Blake Rudis | Nov 7, 2011 | f64 Academy News |
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...
by Blake Rudis | Nov 2, 2011 | Quick Tips |
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...
by Blake Rudis | Oct 28, 2011 | Beginner, Tutorial, Video Tutorial |
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...
by Blake Rudis | Oct 26, 2011 | HDR Tips |
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....
by Blake Rudis | Oct 24, 2011 | f64 Academy News |
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...
by Blake Rudis | Oct 21, 2011 | Quick Tips, Tutorial |
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...
