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Nostalgia. It’s an odd word when you stop and look at it, but also a word that impacts us all. It might be a smell that takes you back to Grandma’s kitchen, an old movie poster that evokes some warm and fuzzy memories, or a song that transports you to a special moment crystalized in […] [Read more...]
We live in a somewhat ironic day. Many of the optical defects of past years have been resolved, and lenses are no longer prone to flare or odd optical quirks like bokeh that “swirls” around the periphery of the image. Most modern lenses have rich contrast and are sharp wide open. Modern DSLR sensors have […] [Read more...]
There are few people that don’t enjoy the mesmerizing images of the night sky filled with stars over a beautiful foreground scene. It was a friend of mine, Royce Bair, who popularized the term “nightscape” for these type of images. Some of my own nightscape images have numbered amongst my most popular image [Read more...]
Every photographer loves shooting when the conditions are easy and the light is great. Traditional portraiture has taken place in studios where the lighting and conditions are easily controlled, consistent, and repeatable. Once the initial investment of effort has been made, it is relatively easy to go from shoot to shoot an [Read more...]
One of the key challenges for the modern photographer is finding a way to distinguish their work from the homogeny of a million and one other photographers around them that are doing pretty much the same thing. I do believe that ultimately the old fashioned ingredients of talent and an eye for seeing the world […] [Read more...]
In this second part of the video tutorial on processing workflow, we will take the file that we created in our exposure blending tutorial into Alien Skin Exposure 6 to create a unique, high contrast “infrared” monochrome image that has a lot of visual “pop”! In the spirit of the former tutorial, this vi [Read more...]
HDR (High Dynamic Range) photography is a very polarizing photography topic…with good reason. When abused, HDR produces cartoonish images that are, frankly, appalling to photography purists. But a lot of the top landscape photographers have embraced the concept of exposure blending (using multiple exposures) to recreate what t [Read more...]
There are some people who make a very good living by buying somewhat rundown houses, renovating them, and then “flipping” them for a large profit. Not everyone can do this. Some people try it and discover somewhere during the renovation project that they have made a terrible decision. But those that are successful ofte [Read more...]
