Category Archives: Photomatix

A talk on “stylized” images tonight

Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Over the past few years I’ve done presentations for local camera clubs.  Tonight, one more! Now normally I’ve done very specific topics.  Introduction to HDR, Using Lightroom in your Digital Workflow, and other such stuff.  Tonight I’m going a little non-specific.  This time around we’re going to talk about the giant mish-mash that is creating [...]

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Back in business, but still tinkering with composite images

Thursday, May 5, 2011

Okay, whew!  The print head is installed, inks all replenished (financial ouch), and canvas has been rolling out this morning.  All good.  I’ve got 3 days of printing to catch up on. While catching up my mind is still on playing with my whole composite experimentation.  Recently I rediscovered Joel Grimes and his website (I’d [...]

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Almost there…..Finishing off the Mags composite

Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Yesterday I was a little frustrated with myself.  I’d done a bad job of clipping Mags out of her original background.  Basically, when you’re clipping someone out you should come into them by a pixel or two.  I hadn’t done that (being too speedy) and there was a 2 pixel halo around most of her [...]

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The Dells A La Snow

Thursday, December 30, 2010

A winter wonderland this morning?  Yup. Now, back in New Hampshire we never got all wound up about snow.  We lived with it for so many months every year.  But here in Arizona? Yup, snow is something to get excited about, depressed about, causes folks to drive like maniacs, and makes me late getting into [...]

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The HDR Workflow Tutorial – Lightroom, Photomatix, & HDR Efex Pro

Monday, November 29, 2010

Really, it’s finally coming out? Yes, it is! First off, let me apologize for the squished video feed from YouTube.  That’s my bad.  I decided to upload the DVD intro for you to see, and somehow it got squished to 640×480.  Should have been “letter box” in the video format, but hey these things do [...]

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Hello November! You’re going to be a busy month!

Monday, November 1, 2010

Here we are.  November already.  Halloween has come and gone, and there is a distinct chill in the air (probably has something to do with living more than a mile high).  I remember when it was just warming into summer and that’s already gone.  Why does it seem time goes by faster and faster each [...]

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The Tools of My Trade

Wednesday, October 27, 2010

It’s been a while since I’ve listed off what I use for the work I do.  While I wait for two different painters to come in to check their proofs I thought about what’s important in my day to day business, and figured it would make a great blog post…… What gets used every day? [...]

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