Site and HDR News and Notes

Just some assorted news and notes about the site and some HDR developments:

• I’ve settled into a bi-daily photo posting schedule (the every two days bi-daily, not the twice a day bi-daily). I think I’ve now got enough of a backlog of photos that even if I didn’t take pictures for a while, I should be able to keep that up. My writings, reviews, process documents, etc…won’t count towards this. It will be exclusively front page images and snapshots that will be on the bi-daily schedule.
• Speaking of writings, I’ve added two new tabs to the top navigation: reviews and process. The review page will lead to all of my reviews (some of which I forgot I had even written). The process page will be an examination of how I create certain images, blog postings, and other item. Currently, I’ve got one in the works for my Worldwide Photo Walk submission and one about how I prepare an image for printing using Aperture, Genuine Fractals, and Nik’s Sharpener Pro.
• I made two major HDR related purchases recently: (1) Nik Software’s new HDR plugin, HDR Efex Pro and (2) Trey Ratcliff’s new HDR instructional DVD. HDR Efex Pro became a no-brainer when I learned that if you already had the Nik Complete Collection, you got the new HDR software for $99. As far as the DVD goes, I feel that Trey is the master of HDR, and since there is no way I’d be able to get to one of his workshops, I figured the HDR would be the next best thing. I have pretty high expectations for the DVD and I will be doing a review as soon as I have received my copy and had time to really sit down and process it.