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
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People are excited about HDR and, for good or ill, it appears to have some long legs. Until it becomes yesterday’s effect or tomorrow’s standard, you need to understand some basic HDR processes. These will help ensure that you are creating a great image-not just an effects demo. Finished Image Just because...
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on Mon, Jul 12 2010
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It is time to dust off those images you captured in the dawn of digital and reprocess them in the software from the decade of the teens. This image, Stone and Spray was one of my very first bracketed sequences. I had heard (in May of 2005) that you could bracket exposures and capture shadows [...]
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on Tue, Jan 5 2010
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Well, I received a good response off the last post. The image in the previous post was not an HDR image but rather one that was recovered strictly through the RAW converter. Below is the same file processed with the benefit of a three-exposure HDR. You can compare the two if you like. This is ...
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on Tue, Nov 24 2009
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That is the question. I get this question at just about every presentation I give. Oh, the question may take a different form such as:
Is that HDR?
What HDR program did you use there? Photoshop? Photomatix?
That has to be HDR, right?
Novices in the art of combining multiple exposure-value shots into...
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on Sun, Nov 22 2009
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