Darth Vader Poster

The second of my Star Wars creations – Darth Vader.  I had originally planned to put several of the villains together, but thought I would have a poster for each.  I did have a couple other images of Darth Vader that I cut out, but I really couldn’t figure out…

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Boba Fett Finished Poster

Finally after a week of building elements such as planets and galaxies, cutting subjects out of images with the pen tool,  extracting fire and explosion from their background with a channel selection in Photoshop, and merging multiple images from my own library, I have a finished poster. I didn’t count…

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Boba Fett the Bounty Hunter

I started my first Star Wars series and have finished just the top scene of the Boba Fett poster.  Overall I hope to complete about 4 or 5 posters with the various images that I captured of the characters.  The first one will be the famous bounty hunter Boba Fett…

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Adaptive Wide Angle Filter

Adaptive Wide Angle Filter

Most of us are use to doing Panorama shots and stitching them together with either Lightroom or Photoshop.  But sometimes, depending upon where you were able to stand, or the subject of your composition, you might have some distortion on your corners. Lightroom’s panoramic feature is extremely easy to use…

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Having Fun with Panorama

This is the post office building in Bucharest.  And it is definitely NOT circular.  It does however take up an entire block and is a massive old building. I stood on the opposite side of the street and took six images portrait with the camera.  The original image thumbnails are…

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Lightroom HDR Merge

While I’m not a fan of the HDR craze and I seldom use HDR effects to get the grundy or over processed look to my images, I do find opportunities when the HDR functionality comes in handy to keep an image that might otherwise have ended up in the bit…

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Why You Should Shoot RAW

Our first week in Hawaii was a bit of a disappointment from a photography perspective as it was overcast and rained for the first 7 days we were there.  But as they say, every cloud has a silver lining.  One afternoon between storms we drove to the windward side of the…

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