Glad you're here.
I'm from WA State USA and started studying photography in 97. I started work as a pro (using that word loosely because I sucked) using film at age 16. I learned fast but was not as easy to find training then. Sometimes I beat my head against the wall until I figured stuff out.
As digital dawned I went all in and got to study with masters like Ken Whitmire. In 09 I founded the Pro Photo Show podcast. I started promoting tone-focused editing. When Lightroom arrived, I started developing tools to make editing and workflow better.
20 years of study and photography around the country earned me a Master of Photography (M.Photog) from PPA. I got to see my workshops and tools featured in publications across the industry. Once I even won the prestigious HotOne award for my "EXposed" light and tone workshop.
Wanting something calmer, I moved to Mexico in 2017. It's a land of magical light. I'm here now exploring light and trying to master my weak areas. I make videos of that for my Youtube channel, sharing what I learn. I hope you'll stick around and be part of Light Hunters Tribe... Gavin
thanks I just download them and converted all my images, posting to flickr now…. instant hero 🙂
Thanks for the great laugh and the new preset to play with!!
For some reason, I couldn’t sense the sarcasm…What happened? Not an HDR lover? lol
Really enjoyed the jokes! I too am going to be a HDR Flickr Mastaa! 🙂
that is awesome. You have just single handedly saved the photo industry! 🙂
I dont get it? Neither funny or helpful? I’d love to “LOL” too like the others.
Absolutely screaming with laughter, tears running down my face funny. The things only the pros know!
So you make fun of people who generate HDR’s on Flickr by creating a preset that looks similar? I don’t see the point. If you want to complain about how crappy they look then go ahead, but this is just a waste of everyones time. A more constructive approach would be to create a proper HDR tutorial or how to get a similar but less over the top effect in LR. You may already have that at this website, but honestly I was just surfing through the first page and found this – and now I will be leaving the site. Yea, HDRs are way overdone, and they look horrible most of the time. Don’t worry about it – improve your own work and look just that much better then the people who do this.
lol great vid man.