Time marches. Tools evolve. Technique improves. We shoot new images every day. Our skills as a photographer naturally evolve with time too. The images we capture get better as time passes. RAW Processing has evolved in the past few years. HDR software has evolved in the past few years. Theoretically...
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Chasing the sunset across the sky can be daunting. It is a race you can never win. I sped down the back roads of western North Dakota in July, my eyes desperately scanning for a suitable foreground element, as the sun receded in defiance. I am going to have to make something from nothing, I [...]
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Sometimes which White Balance setting to choose is counter-intuitive. When presets fail and logic stumbles, sampling and common sense can be your best guides. Camera’s Auto-White Balance – Close to Daylight I was shooting White-headed Capuchin Monkeys in Costa Rica in April when the problem of white...
As many of you have guessed the previous post was an HDR image made through the Photomatix software tool for blending bracketed exposures. What would happen if HDR software didn’t exist? What if I were left to work with only the best exposure? Here is the same picture minus HDR… only one exposure...
A Video Investigation-right up the middle:
A lapse of photographic judgment recently produced three very appropriate test files for examining the usefulness of the “expose right” ideology in digital photography. I was shooting bracketed exposures of a church in rural North Dakota with HDR...
Consider keywording your images today-if you aren’t already. Building a database of images with attached keywords has become easy and necessary in the world of digital capture. If you want to find a specific photo or photos in that sea of thousands of RAW and JPG files on your computer, you stand your...