Why I Choose To Print My Legacy With Epson

In this video … I describe what motivates me to make my images. I celebrate the power of prints. And I discuss why I choose to print with Epson printers, inks, and papers. Learn more in my digital photography and digital printing workshops. Find out more...

Is It A New Or Updated Edition?

Revelation XLIII Digital technology offers interesting new possibilities for print editions. The appearance of the print may change. It has long been an accepted practice that artists will change the rendition of their images over time. Ansel Adams famously remarked,  “The negative is comparable to...

5 Tools You Can Use To Make The Most Of Shadows & Highlights Without HDR

There are many things you can do in Photoshop to make the most of shadow and highlight detail in images, even if you didn’t bracket exposures for HDR. Curves Curves, the most precise tool for modifying brightness and contrast, allows you to target and adjust...

Extending Dynamic Range With Two Exposures

Two exposures blended Dark exposure Light exposure The layer stack Sometimes Two Exposures Are Optimum There are a variety of ways to extend the dynamic range of a camera. The four classic ways are selective adjustment, double processing a single file, layering two exposures, and...

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....

The Aesthetics Of HDR – Choose Your Preferred Look

image without HDR software processing image with HDR processing in sky only image blending 50% normal and 50% HDR processing image with heavy HDR processing using Photomatix HDR imagery is expanding today’s photographic aesthetics. Identifying the characteristics of contemporary HDR images will help classicists and pioneers alike. The...

Get More Detail With Double Raw Conversion

final image double processed image processed light image processed dark the Photoshop layer stack used to blend dark and light together HDR Without Bracketing If you need to make an image of a relatively high contrast scene that challenges but does not exceed the dynamic...

The Essence Of Black & White Mastery – Video

  In my presentation (sponsored by Canon) at B&H’s OPTIC 2016 Conference I share unique insights into black and white photography including – why black and white are colors, why you need color management, ways of seeing in black and white, how to prepare files for conversion...

Capture Sharpening With Lightroom & Adobe Camera Raw 

Adobe Camera Raw's Detail panel Optimal image sharpening is best done in three stages – capture (Do it during Raw conversion.), creative (Do it in Photoshop.), and output (Automate it.). This article covers the first stage of sharpening – capture sharpening. Capture sharpening benefits all images....

Advanced Creative Image Sharpening Techniques – Double Pass & Hybrid

No sharpening. Double pass Unsharp Mask sharpening. Hybrid Unsharp Mask and High Pass sharpening. Different sharpening techniques make the world look different. A world of difference can be seen between the thin hard line of Unsharp Mask and the broad feathered line of High Pass Sharpening. Can...