Why You Should Shoot Raw

If you want to create digital photographs with the highest quality, set your camera to create Raw files. What are the upsides to shooting in Raw? Raw files contain the widest color gamut (saturation), highest bit depth (gradation), have flexible white balance (color temperature), offer...

10 Top Photography Pros On The Power Of Print

Jeremy Cowart Gregory Crewdson Loise Greenfield Download The Digital Printing Quick Start Guide here. Read more on digital printing here. Learn more in my digital photography and digital printing workshops.

17 Top Printing Tips For Making Great Fine Art Prints

There’s no mystery to what it takes to make great prints. There are just many things to consider before making them and many steps to take while making them. Set clear objectives, map the process out clearly, master the skills in each step (or collaborate...

7 HDR Artifacts And How To Avoid Or Cure Them

Different HDR renderings accentuate different artifacts HDR (high dynamic range) imaging captures extreme contrast ratios and subsequently renders them for LDR (low dynamic range) devices, monitors and / or prints. The very things that make HDR renderings appear natural can make them appear unnatural if...

8 HDR Myths Debunked

There are many misconceptions surrounding the practice of high dynamic range (HDR) photography. Here are eight – debunked. HDR is new Within the first five years of the invention of photography photographers began bracketing exposure to extend the dynamic range of photography. They used chemistry...

How To Set Your Camera’s Auto-Bracketing

back LCD menu top LCD menu It’s easy to set your camera to auto-bracket. The hardest part of this process is navigating a camera manufacturer’s menu. Once you find it – and do it several times – you won’t forget it. Here’s how to do...

Why Your Camera’s Auto HDR Feature Is Inferior

Today’s cameras have the ability to generate HDR merges on the fly. The problem is that they produce JPEGs with a smaller gamut (lower saturation), lower bit depth (fewer shades of gray), and compression artifacts (noise and jagged edges) and they offer no control over...

How Many Exposures Do You Need For HDR ?

1 exposure scenes like this won’t benefit from HDR  3 exposures scenes like this may be made with 1 exposure but benefit from more 5 exposures scenes like this require HDR How many exposures do you need for HDR images? It depends. It depends on...

Paper / Substrate

Epson K3 ink on Luster and Watercolor compared   There’s an art to making paper. Since its invention, thousands of years ago, paper has had a long and interesting history. There are many ways to make paper and many kinds of paper. We’ve found many...

Ink

It’s complex chemistry The science of ink formulation is one of the most significant, if not the most significant, factors driving the current inkjet revolution. Ink is complex chemistry. It’s colorants (dye or pigment varying in type and density), resins (protecting colorants and reduce metamerism),...