I know this isn’t my usual engagement photography posts.  I’ve been doing a lot of personal projects lately.  Like I said in my last post, I’m really trying to expand my photography, or in this case get back to something I love in photography….. Textures.  When I first started doing digital photography all I ever used was textures.  I didn’t have a nice enough camera to actually pull off good shots so I had to mask my poor shots with lots of textures.  In reality this actually works pretty well.  If you look at programs like hipstamatic for the Iphone, it takes “great” shots.  Because the Iphone has such a poor camera, you can cover all that up with some texture and a bit of cross processing.  I think that’s why photographs taken on an Iphone and then treated with either texture, cross processing, or vignette’s look so much better.  They give them an artsy retro feel that everyone loves.  Hence with an Iphone and hipstamatic you can make it look like you take really creative artsy shots.  Read more...