Weekly Photography Tips - Meteors
There are few things that peak peoples interest in the night sky more than the approach of a meteor shower. Watching these streaks of...
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Christopher Neal
- Dec 10, 2022
Weekly Photography Tips - Star Trails
Star trails are unique night sky images that show the movement of the stars, which is of course actually the rotation of the earth. They...
Christopher Neal
- Dec 3, 2022
Weekly Photography Tips - Sunrises
There is a universal truth about sunrise photography, start early and stay late. The best color isn't always at the exact moment the sun...
Christopher Neal
- Nov 19, 2022
Weekly Photography Tips - Foreground
One crucial but often overlooked part of landscape photographs is the foreground. We tend to focus on the subject and what's behind but...
Christopher Neal
- Nov 12, 2022
Weekly Photography Tips - Clean Your Gear
Sorry I missed last weeks tip but the flu ran through our household and I had a very very full weekend on the Outer Banks fishing and...
Christopher Neal
- Oct 29, 2022
Weekly Photography Tips - Rule of Thirds
The "rule of thirds" is a compositional guide used in photography that divides the image up into 9 equal parts using 2 horizontal and 2...
Christopher Neal
- Oct 22, 2022
Weekly Photography Tips - Speed
Photography is about telling a story and conveying what it was like to be there in that moment. As a photographer we typically get caught...
Christopher Neal
- Oct 15, 2022
Weekly Photography Tips - Image Storage
When first starting out very few photographers give much thought to where or how images will be stored. You simply download them to your...
Christopher Neal
- Oct 8, 2022
Weekly Photography Tips - Bokeh
One thing that sets portrait photography apart from just grabbing snapshots of people is that out of focus background. So much so that...
Christopher Neal
- Oct 1, 2022
Weekly Photography Tips - Keep Your Head On A Swivel
Photography seems like a relatively safe activity but to get the good shots sometimes you put yourself in potentially dangerous...
Christopher Neal
- Sep 17, 2022
Weekly Photography Tips - Shoot What You Like
I have always followed one main rule, I shot the images that I would like to see. I think "man I bet other people would love this one" or...
Christopher Neal
- Sep 10, 2022
Weekly Photography Tips - Manual Focus
Nightscape photography requires you to switch that camera into manual mode. Not only for exposure but also for focus. Without light...
Christopher Neal
- Sep 4, 2022
Photography Tips - Backup Plan
I'm a bit late with this week's tip because I headed to the Outer Banks Friday afternoon to shoot some Milky Way at Bodie Island...
Christopher Neal
- Aug 27, 2022
Photography Tips - Stacking
Nightscape and long exposure images typically contain a great deal of noise, random variations of brightness and color, caused by sensor...
Christopher Neal
- Aug 20, 2022
Photography Tips - Tripods
A sturdy tripod is essential for long exposure and nightscape photography. Since the shutter will be open for seconds instead of...
Christopher Neal
- Aug 13, 2022
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
- Aug 6, 2022
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
- Jul 30, 2022
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 23, 2022
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 16, 2022
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...
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