by btharp | Oct 12, 2016 | Black-and-White, Brenda Tharp's Photo Blog, Insights, photography, Street Photography
Just because we can doesn’t mean we should convert our color images to black and white. Not every picture works as a straight conversiosn, that’s for sure. With my ages-old training and development as a photographer being in black-and-white, I learned to...
by btharp | Dec 22, 2015 | general photography, iphone Apps, photography, Special Effects
(Back story: When I get busy traveling a lot for workshops and tours, I simply get lost in the sea of images that create! Typically the phone pictures get left in the dust as I focus more on my ‘big girl’ camera pictures. So today I was cleaning up my...
by btharp | Nov 10, 2015 | Brenda Tharp's Photo Blog, creative ideas, Plug-ins, Processing Techniques
Quiet Day, Portmagee, Ireland My friends over at Topaz have done it again! This stand-alone and plug-in program has an incredible selection of texture effects, and everything in the library is modifiable ‘to taste’. I love programs that give you a place...
by btharp | Jun 22, 2015 | Brenda Tharp's Photo Blog
I love it when the muse ‘strikes’ while I’m editing my pictures! I finally imported my latest iPhone pics – from January forward, and found this fun picture. I had originally used Hipstamatic>Jane Lens>Dream Canvas ‘film’, and liked...
by btharp | Mar 25, 2015 | Brenda Tharp's Photo Blog, general photography, Landscape Photography, nature photography, Plug-ins, Software, Special Effects
Poppy-scape, Italy I love to travel, and I am really looking forward to my tour in Morocco and then on to Spain and Portugal, but I have to be honest: I HATE missing Spring here in northern California. It’s a time when my spirits feel renewed, when my own...