Scott's Photo Blog

Happy Mother's Day!

Happy Mother's Day to all the mom's who visit this page.

There's no greater responsibility than the raising of children, and no greater reward than that of doing it well.

Thanks for all that you do.

About this image: This was a grab shot from a Photowalk in Bethesda. How cute was this girl? The lighting was really drab, but that's why we have Photoshop. Plus, I used Nik Software Color Efex Pro 3.0 to pretty it up a bit. If you haven't used it yet, trust me: Color Efex Pro will transform the way you process your pictures. It's that good.

My First Semi-Embarrassing Attempts at HDR

As we talked about on the 88th episode of The Digital Photography Show, I recently began my first foray into the wonderful world of HDR. 

A number of things spurred me to try my hand at this new way of processing my images: the urgings of my co-host Michael, the terrific examples of show-friend Jeff Revell, and an inspirational email from listener Laurence W.

I'm also fortunate enough to to have an account with xTrain, which has a fantastic online training course taught by Ben Wilmore. After watching that class, and downloading Photomatix's software, I was ready to tackle my first HDRs. How did they turn out? Here's one; follow the jump to see more.