Last week, Apple stunned a lot of folks when it opened the Mac App Store and included it’s professional photographer’s tool – Aperture 3 – for the price of $79.99, down from $199. When first introduced, the price was $499. Apple has steadily improved its product and reduced the price. Scott Bourne recently wrote about…
About a year ago, I attended my first Photoshop World conference. Not only did I learn a great deal, but I had a blast doing it. So much so that I decided to attend the next one in Orlando earlier this year. Once again, I learned a lot and had fun doing it. That was…
When I attended the HDR Workshop hosted by Scott Bourne and Trey Ratcliff earlier this year, Trey discussed one of his projects called HDR Spotting. The concept came out of a question. Trey is pretty popular and his images get a lot of attention. In my opinion, it’s deserved. He’s found interesting subjects during his…
The discussion on a couple of photography blogs made me realize just how out of touch I am with the rest of the world regarding my opinion of High Dynamic Range photography. There are even those who deny that HDR is photography, but we’ll touch on that later. It started, innocently enough, with a Scott…
A couple of weeks ago, I attended the HDR workshop in Tampa presented by Scott Bourne & Trey Ratcliff. I think both of them did a wonderful job of presenting information that went far beyond HDR technique. Trey begain his presentation with charts illustrating how the mind perceives color (while Scott gently teased him for…
