
With the mother of all
food holidays just around the corner, I thought this would be the perfect time to discuss food photography. Whether you are a total foodie wielding a blog about your nightly experiments or are just into taking pics, I found lots of helpful tips on
Digital Photography School about how to take mouth-watering food photos.
Although you can
check out the full list of hints and tricks on the blog, the tip that stood out the most was one that told me to experiment with different angles.

Yes you CAN take your digital pictures and transform them into a masterpiece like the one below, thanks to a free web application called
Pixisnap! With Pixisnap you can create photo mosaics or Polaroid-inspired pics for free. To get started just choose which type of picture style you want, upload your photo, and then customize your mosaic art.

Who loves black and white photography? The correct answer is: EVERYONE loves black and white photography!
Now you can shoot in romantic shades of gray on your iPhone — with the App
Vint B&W.

It's like the better our cameras get, the bigger our urge to make pictures look old and vintage-y.
First there was
Poladroid to make your photos look like now-defunct Polaroids, and now I've found a tutorial from Make that teaches you to
turn an old flatbed scanner into a scanner camera that produces noir-ish black and whites, like in this dog picture.
Are you into making your photos look rad and old?

Halloween is nearly upon us, my friends, and if that doesn't give you an excuse to
make yourself look like a zombie then I don't know what will!
It's super easy: Using the web-editing site
I told you about before,
Picnik, just upload a photo with a human face in it, then in the create tab, and scroll down to the Halloween options.
Use the zombie brush to coat your subject's face, body, and clothes, and watch as the life is drained from the face.