i25lights, originally uploaded by ~Tiffany Nicole Photography~.

Spending time out at night has really helped in my understanding of exposure, aperture and shutter speeds.

This photo taken of I-25 in Downtown Denver was just a fun experiement to see what I could do with different settings.

Experiment with your camera and all its settings and see what crazy photos you can come up with. I now LOVE shooting at night and try to find a different spot to shoot from each week.

View fit for a king, originally uploaded by Chester Bullock.

There are times when you may not want to do post-processing on your image. If it is a shot you want to frame, the natural tendency is to optimize everything so the print comes out gloriously.

This picture is an example of when you wouldn’t want to adjust things very much, if at all. It was taken on a very cold winter day in Bavaria. Don’t recall exactly, but I would estimate the temperature was probably around 20°F. Cameras are great at capturing the blue hue when it is so cold. But Photoshop doesn’t like it. If you have a batch routine where color correction is set to auto, you lose all the blue in this picture - along with all sense of temperature that the image conveys.

Bottom line - each picture is different, and your post processing routine for each one should be too. Not always easy (or ‘time saving’) to do, but the results will be worth it.

About the photo:
View from the throne room of Schloss Neuschwanstein near Fussen, in Bavaria, Germany. No retouching done at all (though some suggest a crop would help it). Lucky to be in the right place at the right time, just wish I’d had more than a 3MP camera with me at the time.

burnt_clouds_2, originally uploaded by ~Tiffany Nicole Photography~.

I captured this image the other day as I was getting out of the car to go in the house. Grabbed the camera from my bag and popped off a few quick shots. Within a 3 minute time span it went from this amazing colorful shot to dark drab clouds that looked swollen with rain.

Weather changes quick, always be ready for that perfect moment in time.

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Here we will share photo editing tips, composition and lighting tips, book and product reviews and photos that we all take and want to share.

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