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Photos can appear out of nowhere and when you least expect it. Because of this, its a good habit to remember that the phone you probably have in your pocket has probably got a camera in it. Take it out. Snap a picture. Amaze family and friends!
This is the case with many photos on [...]

Yesterday, I posted a shot of the moon rising into a deep blue evening sky. It was reminiscent of some NASA photos I’ve seen where the blue sky turns to interstellar black. Now I’m here to tell you that what I posted was only part of the story - in other words, it really wasn’t [...]

Adjusting levels, saturation and other settings in Photoshop can have a dramatic effect on the mood of an image. Take the image below, for example. What you see is a standard landscape photo of Paynes Prairie in late fall. The lush greenery is becoming dying brownery, accented with patches of yellow flowers. The sky is [...]

High file compression is a given in the field camera phone photography, but I had not discovered a way to counter this efficiently, instead trying to manually reduce it through lighting and shot angles. Well thanks to the tutorial, “Reduce Noise in Photoshop CS3,” by Mike Rodriguez, I discovered a goldmine in the world of [...]

I’m fairly certain that the thought of shooting photos at night is rarely given consideration by the average photographer, who rightfully expects a bad exposure. I am supremely confident, however, that the idea of shooting at night with a camera phone is laughable, causing the photographer many years of humiliation and painful, underexposed memories.
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When shooting with a camera phone, you’re limited in what effects you can create. Because of that, you’re forced to either take crappy pictures or make adjustments and come up with something different. That’s what I did with today’s photo.
As I was waiting with my youngest daughter after school, I noticed the interesting patterns [...]