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Recent Photography Trend #3: High Dynamic Range Photography (HDR)
Improving Digital Camera Exposure with High Dynamic Range Photography (HDR)
I’ve written about this extensively, and it looks like HDR (High Dynamic Range Photography) is going to have a place in our workflow for some time to come. HDR is actually a simple concept, but somewhat tricky (until now) to implement for digital images. HDR is a number of images, taken at different exposures that when combined in software, contain an entire dynamic range of the scene, elements from the extreme shadows to the extreme highlights, and everything in between. Got all that?
Improve Your Photography Available in Print
Improve Your Photography – 50 Essential Tips and Techniques Available In Print
We have had a lot of requests for a printed version of our eBook, Improve Your Photography – 50 Essential Digital Photography Tips & Techniques. It is now available for order from my publisher (and soon to be on Amazon) at https://www.createspace.com/3435093. I received my final proof earlier this week, and the book is looking great in print. If you don’t want to waste a set of inkjet cartridges and want a printed copy, it’s ready for purchase. By many copies and send them to your friends!
Great Freebie – Picasa 3.6 from Google
A Lot of Fun Functionality in a Free Image Editor and File Organizer
Lets face it. Most of you reading this article are using Adobe Photoshop or Photoshop Elements for your image editing. If you want to take a break and have some fun, you should try out Picasa 3.6. Its a free download from Google. I personally think Picasa is one of the digital photography world’s best kept secret.
A Day in the City
Exercising Photographic Muscles
Photography is like any other skill, it needs to be exercised in order to stay in shape. Personally, I spend a lot of time writing, and sometimes I forget that I’m a photographer first, and force myself out in the field to practice my art. Its called exercising your photographic muscles.
Deer in the Yard
Be Prepared for the Unexpected
I’ve always been a proponent of the theory of carrying a digital camera everywhere you go, because you’ll never know what you’ll find. I wrote a short chapter about that in Essential Digital Photography Tips and Techniques.
Join the Flip Generation
Whats a Video Cam Doing in a Digital Photographers Camera Bag (or pocket)?
Hey! I thought this was a digital photography site! Well, digital photographers are also media geeks. We tend to be more on the cutting edge. Why should we let all the kids have the fun? Seriously, we need to take notice.
Abstracts With The Photoshop Liquify Tool
In the article Blur as an Element of Composition, I showed you how to use the Motion Blur tool in Photoshop or Photoshop Elements to take simple uninteresting (or interesting, you choose!) images and transform them into abstract art.
