How to Use Aurora HDR the Frankenstein Way

In this tutorial, you will learn how to piece together an impressive image in Aurora HDR without ever moving a single slider. You won’t need electricity, a remote location, chemicals or body parts to do this… but then again…… you just might… Mwahahahaha…

The Making of ‘The Church’ – HDR Panorama

In this video, you see the entire post-processing work from merging the source photos into HDR images, via the panorama stitching, all the way to the editing stage where I change quite a bit of the lighting in the original scene around to shape the image according to what I had in mind. All of this is shown as time-lapse, 5 x faster than real time.

Stop Doing HDR like it’s 2008!

Do you remember the days when everybody and their dog did HDR? People would just slap some preset onto their image in their favorite HDR app, finish it off by tweaking it in unbearable ways and post it online. Well, thankfully, those days are over. Over the last decade, things have changed. The initial HDR hype ebbed away, techniques and apps have matured, and HDR has silently entered mainstream photography as a useful tool.

How to Create an HDR Panorama in Lightroom

In this tutorial, I am going to show you how to use Lightroom to create one of the most complex types of images. We’re going to make an HDR panorama by merging and stitching 21 photos to get a single 180° image that has sufficient details in the highlights and shadows.

How to deal with trolls that attack your photos

Whenever you create something notable and share it with the world, you’re going to receive criticism. Especially if you’re just starting out, this can be terrifying.

In this thoughtful and inspiring video, photographer and filmmaker Sean Tucker gives some great advice on how to deal with different types of critique. In particular, he gives you some insight and advice on what drives trolls to put you down and how to deal with their destructive comments.