Davidson River Get-Away
Another weekend and another trip to the mountains of Western North Carolina. The main purpose of the trip was trout fishing in the...
Christopher Neal
- 5 days ago
Photography Tips - Perspective, The Low Down
Composition is one of the more difficult parts of photography. Unlike exposure or focus it's more subjective, less technical but just as...
Christopher Neal
- 6 days ago
Cataloochee Valley Elk
Clouds, Covid and an out of phase moon have ruined plans and made shooting nightscapes difficult the past month or so. I decided to try...
Christopher Neal
- Aug 6
Photography Tips - Location Scouting
When I first began photographing the night sky it was enough to get just the stars or maybe the stars and a few branches in the image....
Christopher Neal
- Aug 2
Me, Myself and I
My wife took one look at this image as I was working on it and said, "you can't just do a normal selfie like everyone else can you?" This...
Christopher Neal
- Jul 31
What To Look For In The Night Sky - August 2022
August will be another busy night sky month filled with a full moon, conjunctions, meteor shower, the return of a friend and of course...
Christopher Neal
- Jul 30
Photography Tips - Back Button Focus
Back button focus, like manual mode is one of the things that can separate photographers from those who just want to grab a camera snap...
Christopher Neal
- Jul 29
Let's Take A Walk
I decided to take a walk to the Kindred Spirit Mailbox the other night. It's been a little over a year since I've been out there and I...
Christopher Neal
- Jul 23
Photography Tips - Astrophotography Post Processing
Capturing nightscape images is only half the battle. The flat, raw images have to be processed in software like Lightroom, Photoshop,...
Christopher Neal
- Jul 21
New Experience
The first few years of shooting the night sky were a solitary experience for me, I was almost always out there alone. Then I found a few...
Christopher Neal
- Jul 16
Photography Tip - The Apps
Some of the more frequent questions I'm asked is how I know when and where the Milky Way will be visible and how do I know what I'm...
Christopher Neal
- Jul 14
Ocean Pursuit
When I got back from my first night sky photography trip to the Outer Banks last September I heard about a shipwreck that I had actually...
Christopher Neal
- Jul 8
Photography Tips - Nighttime Focus
Focusing can be one of the more daunting nightscape photography tasks. Since auto-focus on the modern DSLR and Mirrorless cameras is both...
Christopher Neal
- Jul 5
The Inner Planets and the Pleiades
After a second look at the hundreds of images I captured on June 24th on the beach at Pawleys Island for the Planetary Parade I managed...
Christopher Neal
- Jul 4
Cape Hatteras Milky Way Pano
The wide dark skies of the Outer Banks of North Carolina provide me with an opportunity that I rarely get shooting farther south. A...
Christopher Neal
- Jul 2
Cape Hatteras Moonrise with SpaceX Falcon Flyby
I have been trying for almost a year to capture a rocket launch but for one reason or another it just never worked out. On June 18th I...
Christopher Neal
- Jul 2
Photography Tips - Rule of 500
Image exposure on a modern camera has 3 controls, shutter speed, aperture and ISO. For this tip I'm going to discuss one that seems to...
Christopher Neal
- Jul 1
Standing Guard - Share The Experience
Several weeks ago I was notified that my image of the Bodie Island Lighthouse titled "Standing Guard" was 3rd Place in the Share The...
Christopher Neal
- Jun 29
Photography Tips - Night Sky Photography #1
Night sky and nightscape photography can be daunting to even the most experienced of photographers.
Christopher Neal
- Jun 29
What To Look For In The Night Sky - July 2022
Warm summer nights are the perfect time to get out under the stars and observe the night sky. Full moon, planetary conjunctions, meteor show