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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on Wed, Jan 5 2011
Filed under: corel, photoshop, Technique, adobe, Software, lightroom, before and after, hdr, PhotoPaint, Photmatix
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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on Wed, Aug 18 2010
Filed under: Photography, Technique, Behind the Shot, Pretty Pictures, lightroom, hdr, sunset, bracketing, Photomatix, North Dakota, Wheat
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...
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on Wed, May 5 2010
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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...
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on Mon, Oct 5 2009
Filed under: Technique, Pretty Pictures, Opinions and Musings, lightroom, waterfall, fall colors
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...
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on Fri, Aug 21 2009
Filed under: Photography, Technique, lightroom, Expose Right, histogram, exposure