I want to share with you a great place to photograph especially if you doing HDR. It’s in the northern panhandle of Florida a place called Apalachicola. About a month ago I was going up to photograph a couple of military bases and on the way took about an hour the photograph in the city,…
Have you ever taken a photograph outside a Federal Courthouse or building and have a security guard come up and tell you that you can’t take photos of government buildings. I have, but no more. In a settlement reached in New York, photographers now have the right to take photos of federal buildings from public…
I was in Las Vegas a couple of weeks ago for Photoshop World and had the opportunity to go to the new resort “City Center”. This complex has over seven buildings and I believe three hotels, art galleries, a huge mall and condos. The architecture was incredible, and is probably the nicest casino in Las…
I photographed in a junkyard! Yes, a junkyard and I had a great time. A fellow photographer and instructor from the Morean Art Center, Chuck Vosberg, set up a photo walk inside a auto junkyard. This was quite an experience as it was 93° outside and in the sun with a lot of Florida humidity,…
This past weekend Lee Burgess and myself led a photo safari for TAPPA in historic Ybor City. Lee is a commercial and fashion photographer in Clearwater, Florida and he was showing us some of his approaches to photographing models. We got one of the design students from the International Academy of Art and Design to…
There is a lot of HDR news coming out about new programs that will be released over the next few months. Adobe started this rush with upgrading their HDR plug-in in CS5 to HDR Pro. They had to upgrade because there old plug-in was just horrible and with HDR Pro they now have a program…
When I was teaching a workshop in St. Augustine a few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to photograph a church early in the morning with a group of students. I had learned that Photomerge in Photoshop CS5 was able to put together a panoramic using a wide angle lens. Before CS5 you had to…
