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How to photograph Star Trails

The Mastering Star Trail Photography Video Course, a 4 day online workshop, will be broadcast live online for free, from  March 26 to Thursday March 29, 2012. But it does not end there, so if you miss something or want to rewind, you can buy the video, [...]

Photographers' Christmas in Taos: travelogue and romance

Another Batch of HDR Holiday Nights

More displays of nighttime and Holiday lights. In the Gallery- Another sampling of festive holiday lights captured near my home in Upstate NY over the past week or so. As you may notice, I tend to go for the simpler scenes that depict more of the middle [...]

Still More - Nighttime Holiday HDR

More nightime displays of Holiday lights. In the Gallery- A sampling of festive holiday lights captured near my home in Upstate NY over the past week or so. As you may notice, I tend to go for the simpler scenes that depict more of the middle and working [...]

Shooting Holiday Lights in HDR

Photograph © John Neel Here is a basic HDR technique for shooting holiday lights that works for me. To produce the image above, I used a Pentax DSLR with a Tamron 10-24 lens, a tripod, Photomatix Pro and Photoshop. I try to produce a natural looking [...]

More - Holiday lights in HDR

ALL WORKS IN THE GALLERY ARE COPYRIGHT © JOHN NEEL. The Joy continues! In the Gallery- A sampling of festive holiday lights captured near my home in Upstate NY over the past week or so. This season, I've been shooting nighttime HDR in an attempt to [...]

Holiday lights in HDR

ALL WORKS IN THE GALLERY ARE COPYRIGHT © JOHN NEEL. Ahhhh! The Joy of Christmas…Hanukkah…and the Holiday Season! Who could not love those few weeks before the big holiday? The night takes on a whole new brightness as we decorate the world [...]

HDR - Multiple WB

© John Neel This is one of my own techniques. Most photographers choose a white balance that is appropriate for the lighting that they shoot. Daylight is different than tungsten in that the color is much cooler than the latter and vice-versa. There are [...]

Creativity with Flash

Expressing motion in a still photograph can be done in several ways. One of my favorites is to 'drag the shutter' when using flash. This refers to using a slow shutter speed to purposely blur movement. At the same time, the flash fires which creates a sharp [...]

Gallery: Life on a Lily

Tropical rainforests are renowned as biodiverse habitats; yet a wide range of plants in your garden will enhance the biodiversity of wildlife visitors. Even one kind of plant can attract a range of invertebrates. During a fortnight when three lilies bloomed in [...]

High Speed Photography

A couple of nights ago I got this remarkable picture of a poorwill skimming a pond at night to drink on the wing.  The small body of water was manmade specifically to attract bats and birds in the dry desert environment near Tuscon, Arizona.  To [...]

My Book: Experimental Digital Photography Is Being Reprinted

GALLERY: Exhibit Of 21 Camera-Painting With Light Photos

How To Handhold Your Camera Correctly At Slow Shutter Speeds

How to Shoot the Night Sky

The night sky photography of my friend and fellow Jersey boy Roman Kurywczak just blows me away. He travels the American west with some large flashlights, a sturdy tripod, and the kind of energy and enthusiasm it takes to stay out and up all night in vast, [...]