Camera’s View

Whenever I get a chance to visit the Napa Valley region of California. I try to stop at V. Sattui Winery located in St. Helena.
In addition to decent wines and a great little deli, V. Sattui Winery has a really neat stone Winery building which, to my eye, is a great photographic subject.
The first image, [...]

I was just curious to see what would happen if I took a single image that was processed as a jpeg right out of my camera, as shown here (untouched by Photoshop or Lightroom )
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and I then processed with Photomatix using tone mapping - results shown here -

and then to [...]

Original Exposures -

I have spent the last several months investigating techniques for creating High Dynamic Range Images. Based on my experience thus far I have some recommendations for getting started.
Online Resources -

First a video by Matt Kloskowski -Video - HDR and Lightroom, where Matt explores how to use Lightroom in a HDR workflow.
In [...]

Monday was a beautiful day on the North Shore of Massachusetts. My wife and I decided to see if we could make our way through the “Private” roads of Annisquam and make it out to the Annisquam Light.
I had been there years before and knew that parking was available for visitors.
I can understand why the [...]

Do sometimes wonder how your images may look hung on a wall in a gallery ?

Or maybe you are just not sure whether your image will look better Landscape framed or Portrait framed.
This got me thinking, what if you could do a simulation of images hung on a wall right within Lightroom. Never having to [...]