Adding Texture To My Photos I have just recently starting to update some of my photos to give them a little pop with textures. Below is one I took for a class, of oranges. For this photo I took a texture from a collection I bought called Mystical Lights...

Adding One Or More Custom Sky Programs To Your Photo Editing Tools Will Change An Okay Photograph Into A Superb Photograph For years I would enhance my photos by changing the sky, in Photoshop or Gimp.As part of that process, however, I needed to bring the sky tones/colors into...

There Are Many Ideas, Sensational Or Not.  Here Are 3 Of Mine. I am by no means a landscape genius.  Over time I have developed a few ideas that allow me to get the most out of my photographs. Those ideas are: Shooting HDR (high dynamic range) is often...

Simple Alluring Post Processing Creative Photography Creative is what YOU call creative, not what someone else does. Your result could be a simple change,  something utterly strange or merely alluring. You may have seen my previous post  5 Intriquing Creative  In Camera Photography Ideas – With Detailed Photos. In...

Or – the Joys (Good),  Frustrations (Bad) & Bumps (Spoiler) You Encounter As A Photographer I usually carefully plan my photo shoots, be it a NYC Street Life walk, a casual hike or a set of vacation photos. Sometimes, however,  things go bump in the night.  Below are five...

How I Take Candid Photographs I do take lots of candid photos of people, no posing, no smiling for the camera. I like to catch people in whatever mood they are in at the moment. I do not, necessarily, care if I include facial expression, though that is a...

Incredible  HDR When to shoot for HDR: When you are shooting – mostly landscape – and you have significant or extreme lighting differences between the foreground, middle ground and background.  If you are like me, however, almost always when shooting landscape, even vacation photos, where the lighting and time...

B&W, 2 & 3 Color, Sepia Tones & Minimal Black Can Be Effortless In other words, changing a 4 color photo to Not 4 Color. Well, maybe not completely effortless, but if its not worth the effort . . . I know many of my peers are into B&W...

Sometimes The Light Isn’t Right For the majority of my life I lived in NYC metro area and for the times I now visit,  if I was not going to the theater, I carried my camera. A city is a wonderful place to collect photos, and I have several...