“Virtual” Creative Photography Conference February 22-23, 2025

OUR FABULOUSLY CREATIVE SPEAKER LINE-UP:

Mark Battista (CT) “Composition: Shooting with Intent”

Liz Guertin (MD) “Unleash Your Creativity: A Process-Based Approach” & “Tangled, Tantalizing Trees”

Doug Hansgate (NY) “Digital Painting from Images - the Basics” & “Digital Painting from Images - Brushes”

Andrew Kavanagh (CA) “Surreal Compositing in Photoshop” & “Generative AI in Photoshop”

Mike Moats (MI) “Creative Ways to Photograph Flowers” & “The Four Seasons of Macro”

Maryellen Stone (MA) “Enhancing Your Nature & Wildlife Images Creatively for Impact”

Dave Meredith (TN) “HDR with Photomatix & Nik”

Hazel Meredith (TN) “Creativity with Textures and Plug-Ins” & “Smartphone Creativity with Snapseed”

This online Conference comprises 13 hours of seminars and will be recorded so you can watch/re-watch all the sessions for 60 days (90 days if your purchase during the Extra Early Bird promo).

Includes: Virtual Goodie Bag & Great Door Prizes!

Check out all the details and register at: https://meredithimages.com/creative-photography-conference-2025/

Shot this Zinnia at the Ankley Farm in Imlay City, MI.  Used my Fuji X-T30 MKll and Tamron 18-300 lens.  f/25 @ 1/30sec ISO2000.

Did a square crop of the flower center, sharpened the image and changed the color from the original red to what you see here.

Here is the original out of the camera.

Booking camera club zoom meetings, need a speaker, let me know, macrogeekmike@yahoo.com

Join my Macro Photo Club online. Over 280 instructional videos. Over 2800 members from 29 countries. 
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Photogs always say to me, my images don't come out of the camera looking very good, and I tell them neither do mine, but it's the post processing that makes the image stand out.

Here is the finished image.  Processed with Smart Photo Editor.  Learn more about the tools I use for post processing by joining my Macro Photo Club.

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Here is the image out of the camera. Shot with Tamron 90mm macro lens on a Nikon D7000,  f/stop f/22.

Booking camera club zoom meetings, need a speaker, let me know, macrogeekmike@yahoo.com

Join my Macro Photo Club online. Over 280 instructional videos. Over 2800 members from 29 countries. 
Info and to sign up. 

MACRO PHOTO CLUB - Mike Moats - Award Winning Macro Photographer

Also Check out my workshops and zoom programs.

WORKSHOPS - Mike Moats - Award Winning Macro Photographer

I've been preaching for years about shooting at f/32 to get the maximum depth of field out of my lens, getting my whole subject in focus.

Many photographers think I'm crazy shooting this way, but if you think I'm crazy then you are also calling Ansel Adams crazy. Almost 100 years ago Ansel Adams, Edward Weston and a small number of other photographers started a camera club in California and the name of the club was Group f/64.

Their name, f/64, they took from a very small lens aperture used with their large format cameras, a pinprick that allowed them to capture the greatest possible depth of field in their lustrous, sharply detailed prints. In today's digital world, these “straight” photography champions are increasingly revered.

If you are interested in learning about the Group f/64 camera club, go to Amazon and buy a copy.

If you are interested in shooting at f/32 as I do, you will get some softness in your images from the diffraction, but easily corrected with the sharpening tools in our post processing programs.

Booking camera club zoom meetings, need a speaker, let me know, macrogeekmike@yahoo.com

Join my Macro Photo Club online. Over 280 instructional videos. Over 2800 members from 29 countries. 
Info and to sign up. 

MACRO PHOTO CLUB - Mike Moats - Award Winning Macro Photographer

Also Check out my workshops and zoom programs.

WORKSHOPS - Mike Moats - Award Winning Macro Photographer

When a photographer is criticizing other photographers for the way they process their images, whether it be through any of the amazing tools we have for post processing, try and remember this quote from the most revered photographer of all time. This applies even more today in the digital days then it did in the films.

Please in your mind, insert into the quote “or women” along with the men.

“No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.” – Ansel Adams –

AMEN!

Booking camera club zoom meetings, need a speaker, let me know, macrogeekmike@yahoo.com

Join my Macro Photo Club online. Over 280 instructional videos. Over 2800 members from 29 countries. 
Info and to sign up. 

MACRO PHOTO CLUB - Mike Moats - Award Winning Macro Photographer

Also Check out my workshops and zoom programs.

WORKSHOPS - Mike Moats - Award Winning Macro Photographer