by Blake Rudis | Apr 18, 2012 | HDR Concert Announcement |
Download the Brackets here. The 3rd installment of the HDR concert is upon us. Please join me and many others in another HDR performance, the last two were such a success I cannot wait to see this months entries. This one should be pretty explosive, no pun intended!...
by Blake Rudis | Apr 16, 2012 | f64 Academy News |
Last weeks Union Station trip has provided me with many brackets to process and as I have been working with them I have been trying new things. Well, I wouldn’t necessarily say new, but revisiting an old friend. I started my photography journey at 17 in the...
by Blake Rudis | Apr 11, 2012 | Product Review |
When it comes to HDR tone mapping, noise can be your worst enemy and many times can separate a good shot from a great shot. However, there are a plethora of options on the market for noise reduction. If you are anything like me, you like to attack the noise after...
by Blake Rudis | Apr 9, 2012 | f64 Academy News |
I recently signed up for a meetup to go on a Photo walk in the West Bottoms of Kansas City. That place is awesome and I was stoked to attend. The buildings in the area are run down warehouses, factories and all kinds of HDR friendly. The West Bottoms are almost...
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 30, 2012 | Beginner, Tutorial, Video Tutorial |
I recently downloaded the Adobe Photoshop CS 6 Beta and I have to say I am loving it. At first the interface took some time to get used to due to it’s dark nature, but after about 20 minutes of poking around, I felt just as at home as CS5. Now, how will this...
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 12, 2012 | f64 Academy News |
This weekend I noticed that my post processing workflow is continuously changing, my style is evolving, and I am working much faster than I was a year ago. I was curious about just how much my style and workflow has changed so I dove into my archives and pulled up an...
by Blake Rudis | Mar 5, 2012 | f64 Academy News |
Being singled out is usually not very fun as it comes with some negative connotation, like the kid in grade school singled out as the stinky one. In photography it is almost the opposite, not that being the stinky one is cool, but being singled out can really pull...
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...