by Blake Rudis | Feb 7, 2011 | f64 Academy News |
What do you get when you mix a picture of something really dirty, a snapshot of orange juice swirling in a pool of teriyaki marinade, a texture shot of a broken plastic bin, and an HDR image of a guy in a gas mask?….One hell of a crazy looking photo from a...
by Blake Rudis | Feb 2, 2011 | HDR Software Reviews, Product Review |
The search continues for greener HDR pastures. This week I downloaded the free trial for HDR Darkroom by Everimaging LTD. Of the many HDR programs that claim to create great HDR images at lightening speed, I would have to throw my hat off to HDR Darkroom. I am a...
by Blake Rudis | Jan 31, 2011 | f64 Academy News |
My wife has mastered the art of not only beautiful cupcakes, but the worlds most amazing butter cream frosting! How in the world can you top a Girardehli chocolate cake topped with Peanut Butter Butter Cream Frosting? The answer is… You Don’t!! You can...
by Blake Rudis | Jan 30, 2011 | f64 Academy News |
Last night I checked my Google analytics for keywords that have led viewers to EverydayHDR. The usuals are HDR blog, Photomatix Help, or HDR Photography. Last nights was a whole new can o worms! I don’t know what you are doing wrong bro, but I hope my blog...
by Blake Rudis | Jan 21, 2011 | Beginner, Quick Tips, Tutorial |
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...
by Blake Rudis | Jan 19, 2011 | HDR Software Reviews, Product Review |
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...
by Blake Rudis | Jan 14, 2011 | Beginner, Quick Tips, Tutorial |
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...
by Blake Rudis | Jan 7, 2011 | Beginner, Post Processing, Tutorial |
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...
by Blake Rudis | Jan 5, 2011 | Product Review |
Good news! EverydayHDR will now be contributing to HDR Spotting, thanks to Philip Johnson and his gracious registration code. HDR Spotting has a closed registration by register code only. Philip was kind enough to throw me his extra one. You ROCK Philip as does...
by Blake Rudis | Jan 3, 2011 | f64 Academy News |
HAPPY NEW YEAR! I am not one to make resolutions because I don’t support the notion of making a promise to myself I cannot keep. Instead of a resolution I am going to resolve a problem I have with Photography. This problem is something that has been...
