John Neel
Floating Man may be my best image ever. . Floating Man may be my best image ever. I shot this when I was on vacation in Florida in the 1980s. The man was floating motionless in the water. I saw a dramatic opportunity with the shadow and took the shot. I had just purchased an old Nikonos, and...
John Neel
Since 2004, I’ve participated in Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day and created a poster commemorating an annual event known as WPPD. Here is the screen image made for 2024. WPPD is almost here!
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Depth of field is a way to assure a selection of the subjects in an image appears sharp. Depth of field is a cause of aperture function. It has to do with the opening created by the lens iris relative to the subjects in a scene. It has to do with light cones. Light cones are the gathered rays of...
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Focus and Aperture Movements with Older Lenses Mirrorless cameras have become popular partially due to their relatively short distance from the lens mount to the imaging plane. This shortened distance has allowed for the use of a variety of vintage lenses. The distance that was reduced was made...
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New Sony Alpha 1 SONY A1 As released by Sony New 50.1-megapixel (approx., effective) full-frame stacked Exmor RS CMOS image sensor in combination with an upgraded BIONZ XR imaging processing engine with eight times more processing power Blackout- free continuous shooting at up to 30...
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Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day 2021 Poster Each year for nearly two decades, thousands of people from around the planet have participated in the annual WPPD event. The event is meant to be fun and creative. It brings people together from nearly every nation around the globe. I see it as a tool...
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TeePee – © John Neel This article is a repost from 2013. The photographic image captures a segment of what is in front of the camera, but the viewer senses that what is shown is simply a crop of a much larger scenario. The framing of an image is a border of sorts. To a degree, it defines...
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Illustration art © John Neel Credit to Amy Wright, of Asheville, North Carolina for writing the following. As posted on FaceBook “Chickenpox is a virus. Lots of people have had it, and probably don’t think about it much once the initial illness has passed. But it stays in your body and lives...
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As Announced by Sony Please Read – Disclosure Statement Sony Introduces Alpha 7C Camera, World’s Smallest and Lightest Full-frame Camera System SAN DIEGO, CA – September 14, 2020 – Today, Sony Electronics Inc. announced several additions to an already impressive imaging lineup — the Alpha 7C...