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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 [...]

Photo Paint Visual FX HDR……… Tilt Shift and more…

A Paint FX Gallery The images in this gallery, are derived from various photographic techniques including HDR, Tilt Shift, Zoerk, Pinhole HDR. The paint software I used to create these paint effects was Studio Artist. In the near future, I will be adding new [...]

Clips from My Book- Rethinking Digital Photography

ALL WORKS IN THE GALLERY ARE COPYRIGHT © JOHN NEEL. The Library Journal named it a Best Book for 2011. Best Books 2011: Rethinking Digital Photography Here are a few teasers from the book RDP: Mindfulness - “Sitting in my lawn chair watching [...]

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 [...]

A Great Book About Photo Play!

This fun book is about creativity, inspiration and playful digital photography. If you are looking for a great way to make unique imagery, this book will give you the inspiration to create using alternative methods such as HDR, TTV, macro, 360 x 180 panoramas, [...]

A Photographic Holiday Read!

Library Journal just named it a "Best Book for 2011" Art Instruction.   best-of/best-how-to   My book would make a great holiday gift for anyone interested in playful and creative photographic techniques. The Gallery above shows images [...]

My Book

The Gallery above shows images that were created using just a few of the playful techniques detailed in the book.  ALL PHOTOGRAPHS AND GALLERY IMAGES ARE COPYRIGHT - © JOHN NEEL UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED AND ARE NOT TO BE USED FOR ANY PUPOSE WITHOUT [...]

A Gallery of Techniques

Marilyn D. L. -  "I just bought your book on Amazon.com and can't wait to read it!" THE IMAGES IN THE GALLERY ABOVE ARE REPRESENTATIVE OF A FEW OF THE TECHNIQUES COVERED IN THE BOOK. THEY HAVE EITHER BEEN INSPIRED BY OR WERE INSPIRATIONAL IN THE [...]

Food for thought!?

Over the past 11 months or so, I have strained my brain for the benefit of you the reader. In looking back, I find that a lot of the concepts are still valid. So, I am passing these back a second time for anyone who may have missed them the first time around. [...]

Double Dipping HDR

Double dipping is a way to produce some interesting HDR. I use it to create drawing effects. © John Neel What is double dipping? Actually it is a term I coined for a technique that I use to create a drawing effect using Photomatix Pro. In fact I do more [...]

My NEW book! Available NOW!

Introducing my new book: "Rethinking Digital Photography - Making & Using Traditional & Contemporary Photo Tools" If you are on Facebook, find my  - Rethinking Digital Photography -  page here. When you go there, please have a LOOK at [...]

Portrait Retouching / Wacom Tablet and Pen Exercises

Mastering the Wacom Pen The Wacom tablet is a MUST HAVE for anyone who seriously wants to do retouching or digital painting. It’s the difference between creating art with a pen or a potato and I am serious when I say that if I didn’t have my tablet [...]

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