I don't like articles that have been written about me in photo sites, or magazines, as they always seemed to get all the info I gave the interviewer wrong, but this one I was very happy with.

https://photofocus.com/inspiration/the-world-up-close-a-conversation-with-mike-moats/?fbclid=IwAR2lzjoxjctDU-PbQHi5gW4kh8eDMgriV9uEg0Hc1t6NJtyd8eQEWaSTYn8

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Over the years I've posted many images with unique lighting effects, and sometimes people ask how that lighting happened, assuming it was done with a flash(s) or another light source. 

If you have followed me over the years, you know I have never used a flash system, and only on a very rare occasion would i use a handheld LED light for a little fill light in a dark area of a subject, but like I said, that is very rare when that happens.

Any special effects in the lighting of my images comes from post processing.  Lately most have been created in Smart Photo Editor, and in the past, I have used Nik Software's Color Efex Pro. 

When I process an image, I don't say I'm going to add a special lighting effect to it, I just go into Smart Photo Editor and click through the pages of special effects filters, and if I happen to see a lighting effect filter that works, I'll go with it.  

Examples of lighting effects added in post processing.

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I was at one of my local parks and came across this downed decayed tree trunk with some dewy weird looking fungus going on top.  As I moved in close it looked like tiny little trumpets growing out of the mossy material.

Set up my tripod, got the camera in really close with a macro lens. Here is the result.

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Tonight Hazel Meredith will be teaching a program on photographing with your cellphone for my Flower Photography Club online. 

You have to be a member of the online Flower Photography Club to attend and if you can't attend it is being recorded so you can watch when you are free.

Join here, FLOWER PHOTO CLUB - Mike Moats - Award Winning Macro Photographer

June 29th at 6:30pm eastern time zone 

Hazel Meredith is back.

“Creativity with your smartphone”

I use various apps to do basic editing as well as lots of creative apps.

I call this the Spiral Staircase Plant because it reminds me of a spiral staircase. I don't know the real name of the plant, so I came up with my own name. I found this plant at the Chicago Botanical Gardens and thought it was a really cool and unusual plant.

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