The Ohanaware Weblog

Today’s post is from my forthcoming guide: Sam’s Complete Guide to HDR Photography. It’s a short guide that aims to help everyone get started with the beautiful world of HDR Photography. I’m aiming to release it some time in November. If you’re interested in taking a look at it earlier, please use the contact us form, otherwise either check here or follow me on twitter (http://twitter.com/sam_ohanaware)
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Just a quickie… We’ve wrapping up the release of HDRtist 1.1 with the features that you’ve all been polite to mail us about and I thought I’d just post this link to a review over at “Out There Images”.

http://www.outthereimages.com/blog/?p=426

Today’s weblog post is a couple of tips I’ve collected that might help you get a bit more battery life outa your MacBook or MacBook Pro. I tested these tips while I was writing this article and my time remaining went from 3:16 mins right up to 5:54 mins! It’s still a bit of a far cry from the 7-8 hour indication I used to get, but I’m hoping with a bit more exercise I might see that figure again.
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For this tutorial we’re going to be making a vintage looking photo, but this time we’re going to using an HDR photo. If you didn’t know, HDR stands for High Dynamic Range. It’s a fairly recent method of photography and it can produce some amazingly wonderful results. So why would anyone want to make an HDR image, look old? Why not. HDR can be used to bring out the detail that you never thought was there and this in turn can make a Vintage photo look amazing! Do you want to see what I mean?
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