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Camera raw and HDR, in the Driver’s Seat
The wonders of modern technology are an artist’s dreams come true. Here’s the original camera raw file as shot, straight out of the camera: SAME FILE, after being processed as HDR and tonemapped with Photomatrix, then tweaked and toned in Photoshop and Topaz Detail: Can you say WOW?! ALL that detail and color was actually [...]
Watch Your Step!
Have you ever been at a place in your life where you felt you were standing on the edge of a great precipice of decision? You know that where you are is just run down and worn out and abandoned. It’s time to move to a new place…a different place. The door is before you [...]
Light My Path: How-To
Here’s how to take a poor quality photo and make it into something memorable that accurately depicts your original vision of the scene. Problems with this image are numerous, the most glaring being the white balance, soft focus and lack of detail in too-dark shadows. Fortunately it was a Camera RAW file and there were no [...]
Light My Path
(I’ll eventually get this whole thumbnail thing figured out for this theme, but until then, for a larger view of this image, click on the preview on the home page.) I’ve never been a creative purist. In life, perhaps HOW you get to a place is as–if not MORE–important than where you get to. Imagery [...]
