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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 [...]

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04.3.10 | Comments 0

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 [...]

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03.7.10 | Comments 0

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 [...]

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02.20.10 | Comments 0

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 [...]

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02.20.10 | Comments 2