by Blake Rudis | Oct 28, 2012 | f64 Academy News |
Due to a change in recent flight plans, the submissions for HDR Concert #8 have officially closed! Thank you to all who participated, the post will be live on Wednesday the 31st!
by Blake Rudis | Oct 26, 2012 | HDR 101: The Basics, Post Processing, Tutorial, Video Tutorial |
I have made claims in the past about how much I dislike Photoshop’s HDR toning. That is still true, I am not a fan of the HDR toning, but I do love the 32 bit workflow in combination with Adobe Camera Raw. The results can make for some impeccable HDR images...
by Blake Rudis | Oct 24, 2012 | HDR Concert Announcement |
Download the RAW Brackets here! Download the JPEG Brackets here! Last HDR Concert I announced to those individuals involved that the HDR Concert was going in a new direction. That direction being whatever you the viewers wanted it to go. I opened up the Concert...
by Blake Rudis | Oct 12, 2012 | Beginner, Tutorial, Video Tutorial |
I was experimenting last week with Adobe Camera Raw and found a pretty handy trick that allowed me to double process any image in Adobe Camera Raw. This is a pretty neat way to take your single exposure RAW files to the next level to really exploit that dynamic...
by Blake Rudis | Oct 10, 2012 | Helpful Websites |
I was strolling through Google doing some HDR research when I stumbled across HDR One, an online HDR Magazine. There are some awesome contributors to this magazine. I found many of the articles to be very worthwhile. I registered to begin contributing to their...
by Blake Rudis | Oct 5, 2012 | f64 Academy News |
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....
by Blake Rudis | Oct 3, 2012 | Product Review |
I know I know, I am a bit behind the curve on this one, but I got my hands on it and put it to the EverydayHDR test. I ran HDR Efex Pro 2 through the ringer over the last few days to see if it had the stones everyone was talking it up to have. I pitted Nik’s...
by Blake Rudis | Sep 26, 2012 | f64 Academy News |
Head on over to the Concert page and check out all of the awesome entries for the latest HDR Concert.
by Blake Rudis | Sep 17, 2012 | f64 Academy News |
I was going through Adobe Bridge the other day and noticed some hidden gems in my vast collection of HDR images. It is very easy to lose site of your work when shooting for HDR, sometimes gems get lost among the brackets and tone mapped save file chaos! The perfect...
by Blake Rudis | Sep 14, 2012 | HDR 101: The Basics, Tutorial, Video Tutorial |
I have three huge pet peeves with HDR, some may say I hate these three things. I stayed up countless hours for several months thinking about how much I hated these three things in my HDR process and racked my brain thinking about how I could fix them. It is one...