Last night I tried processing an image in Lab color space for the first time.  If you’re not familiar with Lab, it is the most accurate color space and has a gamut that covers the entire human visual spectrum.  There’s an interesting article written by Jeremy McCleary that describes how human vision works and compares [...]

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Use of Spot Healing Brush
I have an image that is a shot of the Eastern Sierra at sunrise.  There are gorgeous clouds hanging over the peaks.  The early morning sun lit them on fire along with the mountains.  It was amazing!
My exposure was pretty close to being right on.  And yet, there was one part [...]

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In photography one of the most powerful means of growing is through interactions with the other photographers we meet, be they in workshops or in the field.  Not only do you learn from artists who create amazing photographs but you also build friendships.
One such chance meeting of an outstanding photographer and friend is Jack Graham.  We [...]

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I mentioned in an earlier post that I was using DxO now.  I was introduced to the product in November at the Digital Summit workshop in Zion National Park.  It looked pretty interesting and besides I got a deal I couldn’t refuse.  I waited for the release of DxO Optics Pro 5 before jumping in.  [...]

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The First Surprises 
The recovery after the burn holds one surprise after another.  The first surprise was how quickly the thistles started growing back.  They didn’t even wait for rain.  It only took a few weeks and they were sprouting.
 The second surprise was how quickly the grasses came up with just a couple of inches of rain.  And [...]

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There are more hillsides turning green besides the ones behind our house.  Further up Saddleback Mountain there is a growing patch of green.  But it’s not the natural green of tender shoots of new grass.  It’s artificial green.
 It has something to do with the crop dusters that have been flying over the canyons and ridges the [...]

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Last night marked two months since the fire came through our ‘back yard.’  Since then we’ve had about four inches of rain.  In fact, there was more rain in one storm than all of last year.  As a result the scorched hills are starting to turn green.  We’ve seen crop duster planes flying over the [...]

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I stumbled across a very effective technique tonight.  But first a little background.  The image I was working on was a 4 photo HDR shot.  I processed each of the four first in DXO, then LR and finally Photomatix.  The first pass resulted in a sky that was very strange.  The word that best describes it is [...]

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Boy, it worked out just fine, the Christmas cards I mean.  I got the card stock from Red River Paper and worked through the issues of my printer recognizing the odd paper size - 7X10.  And got the right ICC profile for the paper.  We ended up selecting their premium matte paper.  It is two-sided so [...]

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Well, as anticipated, I didn’t particularly like the print from last night.  I seem to be having a problem with creating images that are way too cool in the shadows.  So, how best to warm up the shadows?

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