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New Lightroom Landscape Masks Change The Game For Nightscape Post Processing
Newest Adobe Lightroom update adds landscape masking and changes the way we can target areas of nightscape images for post processing....

Christopher Neal
5 days ago1 min read


Dodge & Burn Nightscape Images with Luminosity Masking
I put together a short tutorial on using luminosity masking to really enhance your dodge & burn layer for nightscape image post...

Christopher Neal
May 71 min read


Walking Into The Storm
Sometimes I capture an image that I know is good but no amount of tweaking in post can tease that magic out of it. Eventually I give up...

Christopher Neal
May 12 min read


May 2025 Night Sky
What's in the Night Sky for May 2025 Meteor over Kure Beach, NC With rapidly rising temperatures May offers a variety of celestial events...

Christopher Neal
Apr 292 min read


Stacking - The Key To Noise Reduction
Early in my nightscape photography journey I learned a technique that has been a core part of my shooting ever since. I took a series of...

Christopher Neal
Apr 122 min read


Once In A Lifetime, Twice
Photographing the aurora has been a bucket list item for me for some time now. I had done research on locations, techniques and the best...

Christopher Neal
Apr 52 min read


How Can I Do That?
Most of my creativity begins with this simple question, how can I do that? Typically I will see an image that really catches my...

Christopher Neal
Mar 303 min read


April 2025 Night Sky
Spring is a great time to get out and view the night sky. The nights are warming up but the bugs aren't out in full force yet. The moon,...

Christopher Neal
Mar 252 min read


Beware the Fog
It's been a slow start to the year so far, I've have yet to find a morning I could go out to shoot. The weekends have either been cloudy...

Christopher Neal
Feb 93 min read


Getting Ready for a New Milky Way Season
It's that time of year once again. Time to charge up the batteries, wipe the memory cards and clean all the lenses and sensors. The core...

Christopher Neal
Jan 184 min read


Washed Ashore - Print Giveaway
I was doing a little fall cleaning this weekend and realized that I had a few extra prints that I had managed to collect over the past...

Christopher Neal
Sep 8, 20242 min read


Outside The Box
Like most photographers I have a speciality, I shoot nightscapes. I can do portraits, headshots, prom shoots and I've even done a wedding...

Christopher Neal
Sep 4, 20242 min read


Milky Way Nightscape Post Processing Tutorial for Photoshop
A tutorial for post processing Milky Way Nightscape images using Photoshop. In the previous video go through my workflow from Lightroom...

Christopher Neal
Aug 18, 20241 min read


Nightscape Milky Way Post Processing Tutorial with Lightroom & Starry Landscape Stacker
A tutorial for post processing nightscape Milky Way images using Lightroom and Starry Landscape Stacker. I go through my workflow from...

Christopher Neal
Aug 4, 20241 min read


No Lifeguard On Duty
As I began to process this image I experienced a flood of memories from the weekend in early June my youngest son and I spent at Cape...

Christopher Neal
Jul 27, 20242 min read


Sleeping Under The Stars
"Why don't we leave the top off Dad?" Was the question I go from my youngest one evening last summer as we were setting up our tent at...

Christopher Neal
Jun 18, 20242 min read


They ALMOST Got Me
Sometimes it's tough being a photographer and I don't mean the endless travel, late nights, bugs and cloudy skies. Scammers are...

Christopher Neal
Aug 19, 20232 min read


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
Aug 6, 20232 min read


Finding Treasures
The past few years I have frequently set a hectic pace for myself. There were months that I was gone 2 or 3 weekends, camping, fishing or...

Christopher Neal
Jul 22, 20231 min read


Is That A Rocket Launch?
One of the first rocket launches I photographed was totally by accident. In June of last year I was at Cape Hatteras shooting Milky Way...

Christopher Neal
Jul 8, 20232 min read
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