There are a lot of applications available on the iPhone that photographers can make use of. Recently I started playing with three of the HDR applications that are on the App Store to see what kind of results I could get with them. I must say right upfront that you should not expect the kind [...]
I was given the opportunity to attend the HDR workshop instructed by Trey Ratcliff and Scott Bourne yesterday in Tampa, Florida. If you don’t recognize those names, you should. Trey Ratcliff is the man behind the most popular travel photography blog Stuck In Customs and is the author of the latest HDR photography book to [...]
Scenic Photography usually deals with photographs of landscapes or buildings that are known for their archeological, cultural, historic, natural, recreational, and/or scenic qualities. There are a wide range of photographic techniques that can be used for scenic photography; high dynamic range photography being a recent popular trend.
Join me on February 20th, 2010 in Melbourne, Florida for an all day HDR Photography Workshop!
This one day course will teach you how to get the best HDR results like the pro’s.
• Learn to identify a good scene for HDR photography
• Learn the best techniques for capturing multiple exposures for HDR processing
• Learn to use HDR [...]
I had to go up to Boston last weekend for business and decided to go up a day early so I could walk around the city with my camera. My friend Hali Sowle from Rhode Island drove up for the day to play tour guide for me. I am so glad that she did too [...]
Heather and I arrived in Las Vegas yesterday afternoon to attend the Photoshop World conference that starts on Thursday morning. After getting checked into the hotel we piled into a car with Vanelli, Scott Larson, and Ron Pepper to go shoot at the Valley Of Fire State Park which is to the north east of [...]
The winner for the Photomatix Pro Bundle contest has been chosen! Using a purely random number generator based on atmospheric noise (yes, I am a total geek) a random number was generated and aligned with my list of names of those who entered the contest and those that twittered about it as well. The winner [...]
I realized that I haven’t updated my Photomatix Pro software in a while so I went over to HDRSoft’s website to see what the latest version was. I found that I was many versions out of date… and one of the updates that I had missed has some major upgrades in it! As of today, [...]
When I was in Tampa shooting with all my friends (I’ll be posting about the trip soon) I happened to be the only one there with a Canon D-SLR. Everyone else was sporting a fancy little point-n-shoot camera. Just kidding… they each had a Nikon D-SLR of some sort. We got to talking about shooting [...]
For the last few weeks I have been hinting that big things were in the works and it is now time to start announcing some of them!
The one that I am most excited about is that HDRSoft, the makers of the insanely popular HDR processing software tool Photomatix, has officially signed on as one of [...]
A few days go I posted about my trip to the Morikami Japanese Gardens. While I was there I shot quite a few exposure sets that I merged into HDR images and processed this evening. All of these images were generated from 9 exposures using Photomatix Pro for the HDR merge and tone mapping. Photoshop [...]
I’ve got some good news on the HDR front…
First off, on August 18th, 2009 I will be teaching a HDR Photography class at Exposure PAS in Melbourne, Florida. It is a 6-hour course that will teach you everything you how to create killer HDR images like the pro’s. The cost of the class for non-NAPP [...]
Unified Color released version 2.12 of HDR PhotoStudio last week with a lot of improvements and additions. I’ve been putting it through its paces for a while now and really like what they have done with the application. In fact, a few of my bigger complaints from the very first review I wrote on the [...]
My family took a spontaneous trip to Busch Gardens in Tampa this weekend. I didn’t take nearly as many photos as I thought I would. I was having too much fun hanging out with my family! But I did take a few and also shot some bracketed exposures for HDR’s. Here are a few of [...]
This is another HDR image from exposures I took yesterday morning. I had driven by what is left of this house a few times in the past and kept making a mental note to return to it with my camera. I finally got around to doing it. This is all that is standing of a [...]
I woke up at 5:45am this morning due to my alarm going off. I had set it just 5 hours before with the intention of going out for a nice morning of photography. So I woke up, turned off the alarm, and immediately climbed back into bed with full intention of going back to sleep. [...]
One of the artifacts from merging multiple exposures into an HDR image is ghosting. Ghosting happens whenever something in your composition moves between when each exposure is taken. This could be something small like a bird in the sky or something massive like bumping the camera. While out shooting the Vietnam Memorial replica I had [...]
One of the topics discussed a lot when comparing HDR software applications is the merge algorithms. Everyone has a different opinion on which application merges the exposures better. In order to provide better information on which is best, I took four of the prominent HDR applications and merged a few different exposure sets that I [...]
I have been getting a lot of questions lately from people wanting to get started in HDR so I decided to write up my very own FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) post to help out. I am not going to call this the Complete HDR FAQ or anything of that sort since I am sure there [...]
Last weekend I woke up early to go out and shoot the sunrise from the beach. I was hoping to get out there early and catch some shots like Twilight that I shot last year. Well, I didn’t wake up that early and when I did get out to the beach the cloud cover was [...]
After writing my review on Unified Color’s HDR PhotoStudio application, Igor (their CTO) contacted me with some information regarding the points that I made in the review. I found some of the information to be very interesting so I wanted to share it with all of you here.
If you haven’t read my review on HDR [...]
This weekend I had the chance to do about 15 minutes of shooting in an old chapel on Melbourne Beach. I shot a lot of exposures to create some HDR images from and this is the first one that I have processed so far. The merge and tone mapping was done in Photomatix Pro and [...]
I went to pick Vanelli up from the airport this evening and shot some bracketed images inside the airport while I was waiting. I had nothing better to do and I wanted to see how long it would take someone from the TSA to start asking me questions. To my dismay they didn’t harass me. [...]
Hali once again sent me a few links that I found to be quite interesting. Both were for posts by Jason (of Cannon Blogger fame) and dealt with taking multiple bracketed exposures. One explained how to use the shutter speed to take bracketed shots and the other explained how to use the aperture setting for [...]
The image below is another HDR created from images I shot under the Cocoa Beach Pier a few days ago. This one was created using 5 images from -2EV to +2EV at a 1EV interval. This was accomplished using manual (M) mode on my Canon 5D and adjusting the shutter speed to capture each one. [...]
I’ve been wanting to go up to the Cocoa Beach Pier for a while now and shoot some HDR’s underneath it. So this morning I got motivated and drove up that way to accomplish my goal. I knew the beach was going to be busy but I didn’t think it would be THAT busy! But [...]
I came across a few pages on the internet that host some beautiful HDR images that I wanted to share. Some of these will blow your mind and others are not all that great. Either way, if you are a fan of HDR images or just great shots in general then you’ll want to check [...]
One of the topics in photography that has gained a lot of attention over the last few years is high dynamic range (HDR) imagery. A new comer to the HDR software application realm is Unified Color. As I write this review there is a group of Unified Color employees at the PMA (Photographers Marketing Association) [...]
A quick news update including the reason why things have been slow on the site and some information about a brand new HDR software application from Unified Color that I am testing!
Have you ever taken a photo of a scene and liked one super-tiny peice of it but hated the rest? That was the case with one of the HDR’s I have been working on lately. I really liked the tire and hated the whole truck and the background… so along comes the crop tool and [...]
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