Fotolehrgang im Internet – Duits, in german. Geweldige fotocursus van Striewisch. Zeer uitgebreid, maar nogal theoretisch. Van de dooscamera tot en [...]

Voor het maken van HDR foto’s is buiten veel tijd nog veel meer anders benodigd….

One of the most challenging montage or masking jobs in the profession of post-production editing is the hair lift. When the model has long flowing hair and the subject needs to change location many post-production artists call in sick. Get it wrong and, just like a bad wig, it shows. Extract filters, Magic Erasers and [...]

Ever tried to extract a model’s hair with the pen tool? Well, I gave up after a few minutes and eventually came up with another way to do that, which I’d like to share with you here in this Adobe Photoshop CS3 tutorial.
Step 1
Start with the image of your choice, I chose this one.

Step 2
Go [...]

In this Saturday morning post, I explain HDR photography with the help of some articles. This post includes step by step ways to create your own HDR images. Be advised that they can be quite hard for beginners to get interesting results. But where there is a will, there is a way! And by experimenting, [...]

Photo Effects (original link here)
HDR-Style Results Using Layers in Photoshop
Learn how to achieve HDR results in Photoshop using bracketed exposures during the production process and then Photoshop layers afterwards.

How to Create Professional HDR Images
Here’s an excellent (and very popular) tutorial on creating high dynamic range (HDR) images; the author focuses on realism instead of [...]

A short how-to on making a horizon level.
Step 1
Open an image with a horizon that’s not level. Instead of having to guess the angle to fix this at, here’s a short method that is lot more effective. You can use this image and save it to the computer and open in Photoshop.

Step 2
Click-and-hold the Eyedropper [...]

As many of you know, it is difficult to obtain good exposure in both the highlights and shadows of scenes that exhibit a high dynamic range of light. Often, photographers will post-process using an HDR converter to achieve the desired exposure. However, there is another way to achieve correct exposure in both the highlights and [...]

One classic technique that digital cameras make very easy is blending more than one exposure together for contrast control, increased dynamic range, or creative purposes. A variation on this technique is to apply different RAW-conversion settings to a single RAW file and then combine the files into a single image. Let’s explore both approaches and [...]

Adding a stroke to some text in Adobe Photoshop can be an effective technique, but most strokes stop at just one. Some designers may try to add another stroke and end up just editing the original one. But there’s an easy technique to add a stroke onto another stroke, and three or four or more [...]

Robocopy (Robust File Copy) is a command-line file copying tool in Windows Vista. Although Robocopy is available for free with the download Windows Resource Kit since Windows NT 4.0, it has never been an official feature of the operating system until the arrival of Vista. Unlike other built-in file copying commands such as Copy and [...]

One of the most difficult photographic situations (shooting into the sun) can be conquered with hdr or one of the other techniques using blended images (DRI). Below are the 5 component images which were then combined and tone-mapped in Photomatix.
The images were obtained with autobracketing from -2 to +2 ev. Be sure to use Aperture [...]

I’ve had a few people ask me how I make my HDRs, so I decided to post the guide here.
I’m not really explaining what a HDR is, as that has been explained really well before. (Check the links there too)
I use Photomatix, which you can try for free and download here: www.hdrsoft.com

HDR Tutorial – New and Improved for 2008!
I hope this tutorial describing my evolving HDR techniques proves useful to you! I receive a lot of emails from people who stumble across my photography asking how I do this. Rather than sending a super-long response, I made this little tutorial because I [...]