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Pixiq Expert

1 month ago

Creative Dream Time

NOTICE: THIS POSTING AS WELL AS ALL PHOTOGRAPHS AND GALLERY IMAGES ARE COPYRIGHT - © JOHN NEEL AND ARE NOT TO BE USED FOR ANY PUPOSE WITHOUT WRITTEN CONSENT FROM THE WRITER, THE PHOTOGRAPHER AND/OR PIXIQ. THE IDEAS EXPRESSED ARE THE PROPERTY [...]

John Neel

Pixiq Expert

2 months ago

Make Ready for Photo Painting

Image © John Neel Make Ready for Photo Painting Before working in a paint program, I typically like to prepare the image in Photoshop and any other software that might be useful for obtaining a particular look that I have in mind. To me, it is important [...]

John Neel

Pixiq Expert

2 months ago

Making Pictures

“The eye should learn to listen before it looks.” - Robert Frank "A good photograph is knowing where to stand."- Ansel Adams "My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph." - Richard Avedon "If I could tell [...]

John Neel

Pixiq Expert

3 months ago

Gallery - Tone Mapped and Photo Painted Pinhole

THE GALLERY ABOVE, CONTAINS A FEW EXAMPLES OF MY PERSONAL PAINTED HDR PINHOLE IMAGES. © John Neel Painted HDR Pinhole and Zone Plate I have always loved to push the envelope. Here are a few digital pinhole and zone plate images that I have [...]

John Neel

Pixiq Expert

5 months ago

A Gallery of Painted HDR

ALL WORKS IN THE GALLERY ARE COPYRIGHT © JOHN NEEL. A Gallery of Digitally Painted SS HDR Photographs. I have this theory that realistic painters usually paint what they see. Cameras however, usually see much less due to the dynamic range [...]

Matthew Jordan Smith

Pixiq Expert

5 months ago

The Joy of Teaching Photography

I had dinner with a photographer friend the other night and we discussed taking time away from shooting to speak or teach workshops. For the working photographer it is always a struggle to accept speaking or workshop engagements because you run the risk [...]

John Neel

Pixiq Expert

7 months ago

Breaking the Rules

Breaking the rules allows us to develop ourselves more creatively. To become creative, one of the best things an artist can do is break the rules. Rules in the arts, are really guidelines we can follow to conform to known concepts. The truth is, that they only [...]

John Neel

Pixiq Expert

7 months ago

1-2-3…+4 HDR

Red Convertible - © John Neel The photograph above was created from a single exposure and is what I call an SS HDR image for single shot high dynamic range. I always try to use as few exposures as possible to create my HDR images. However, [...]

John Neel

Pixiq Expert

9 months ago

Would Ansel use HDR?

The great photographer, Ansel Adams may have liked the idea of HDR. After all, he invented a method of expanding tonal scale. His zone system was his formula and a gift to us, for achieving detail in both the highlights and the deep shadows. The most [...]

Jim Zuckerman

Pixiq Expert

1 year ago

Dinosaur on the prowl, part 2

One of my best selling pictures in stock photography is this composite I did when I first got into Photoshop in 1991. It a braciosaurus apparently swimming through a tributary of the Amazon River. I remember being so amazed at the time that as I looked [...]

Heather Angel

Pixiq Expert

1 year ago

Jewels in the Crown: Star Keepers

This post relates to my last – Blur for Creative Effect – but this time a heat haze produced a creative shot. However hard I work on an overseas trip – and do I work hard – it is rare to achieve more than 3-4 what I call [...]

Jim Zuckerman

Pixiq Expert

1 year ago

Make Your Own Grunge Textures

I never like using another person's image in my composite work, even if it's only a texture. A friend of mine is doing a lot of great work by combining free downloadable grunge textures from the Net and then combining them with his images, but that [...]

Haley Steinhardt

Pixiq Editor

1 year ago

5 Tips for Great Concert Photos

Okay, so let’s face it: Most people don’t tote a DSLR and a lens or two when they head out for the evening to see a live performance. In fact, many performance venues don’t allow photography without a press pass. That said, I must admit that [...]

Michael Clark

1 year ago

Finding Inspiration

How do you find inspiration? Sometimes finding inspiration can be difficult. As with any artist, constantly trying to come up with creative images is the heart of what we do. I was recently talking with a good buddy, fellow pro photographer Marc Romanelli [...]

Canon 50D: Mode Dial Overview

What do all those icons on the Mode dial represent? Learn in this QuickTip what each setting does and which ones to use. [...]

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