If you thought all macro photographers shot was flowers and bugs, Mike will open your eyes to new ideas, and how Color Efex Pro 4 and Viveza 2 play a big part in making these subjects stand out. Mike Moats is an award winning professional Nature Photographer located in Michigan, has been published in many magazines, and written books and…

Here is another ‘creative’ Macro video by Mike Moats. Taking the Bi-Color User Defined filter in Color Efex Pro 4, he was able to transform a Macro photo into something special. Get outside the box this week and try something new. You might be pleasantly surprised!   Watch video  

Michigan area photographer and instructor, Mike Moats, shows off his special technique on using the Solarization Filter in Color Efex Pro 4. Mike’s video will open your eyes to the possibility of using this creative filter effect on your own images.   Watch video  

The Solarization filter in Color Efex Pro 4 is one that has worked for me in a few images, but when it does work it’s pretty spectacular.  When I first started using Color Efex Pro 4 and all the great filters it offers, there were a few that I thought would never work for my images.  But in time I…

I found this interesting two headed Gerbera daisy while picking out flowers for one of my three day Macro Boot Camps.  I’m always searching for flowers that have character, and this one had lots of it. I was in a hurry while setting up for my workshops and took a quick moment to photograph this interesting flower.  In my hurried…

I love to shoot subjects that have lots of textures. I found this old tree that which covered with green moss that I thought would make a nice image. I added the pine cone to the scene to add a little extra interest. When I got home I pulled up the image on my computer, and I liked all the…

I was pretty excited to start working with the new Color Efex Pro 4, as all the new updates sounded awesome.  I really like that we can now stack filters, as it was something that I had been doing often with Nik’s Color Efex Pro 3.0, but I had to save each change, exit from the interface window and then…