2008 Buffalo Roundup Custer South Dakota -Photo Post

This picture was taken last fall at the annual Buffalo roundup in Custer State Park, South Dakota.
Philip Nealey is a digital artist, photographer, Photoshop expert and retoucher based in Omaha Nebraska.

Lake Okoboji at daybreak – Something to help you feel a bit less stressed.

Daybreak at Lake Okoboji Iowa. Spent a few days there with family and friends last summer . Spectaclular sunrise over the lake somwhere around 5 am I think. Now… take a few deep breaths and just relax… imagine yourself sipping a cup of coffee… now throw your Blackberry, iPhone etc. in the lake… watch the ripples forming little concentric circles… Ahhh! much better…

Photographers, Art directors unemployment twice the rate of others.

According to a  research report titled Artists in a Year of Recession: Impact on Jobs in 2008 done by the National Endowment for the Arts, during the recent economic slowdown artists were unemployed at twice the rate of professional workers. Included among artists are performing artists, fine artists, art directors, and animators, writers and authors, [...]

Beware the Photoshop Guru, or Photoshopper or whatever you call them.

So recently I’ve been going through a “professional existential crisis”. Well sort of… recently I have been returning to my roots so to speak. even though I’ve always wanted to be a photographer (actually I also wanted to be a designer or cartoonist), my “real” career in this business started as a retoucher or you [...]