Photo: Boy and his hamster

Portraits and Photoshop: Matt

Here is another corporate portrait done in a similar style (and an alternative) to the last two I posted. For several reasons, we opted to shoot the portraits on a neutral color and composite them in Photoshop with the backgrounds in post production. While its not always the best way to handle it, there are [...]

Photo: Geri’s portrait

As a continuation of the Corporate portrait case study I recently posted here is another image in this series.     Recently I’ve been thinking more and more about the typical corporate head-shot. Granted there are a lot of good corporate photographers out there, but many of the portraits remind me of my old school [...]

Case Study: Corporate Portrait

This is a recent corporate portrait for  a friend of mine, Mark Johnson of Mark Johnson Communications. We used just a small crop of the image on his business cards. The final image will be used in other marketing material. As you look at the other images you can see the progression of the concept. First the image [...]

Photo: Snow Storm Elmwood Park Omaha

Fine art photo of reflection in window after a snow storm.

Philip Nealey » Food and Drink

For over eight years I was partners with a top food photographer in Chicago. Most of that time I spent retouching and color correcting food for a variety of clients like McDonald’s. However, during that time I discovered I really enjoyed the art of food photography. I also had the opportunity to observe some of [...]

Wyoming: Tetons Panorama

Hiker near Jackson Hole Wyoming. License from Getty Images: http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/200460900-001/Digital-Vision Posted via email from Philip Nealey

Photo Illustration, Photoshoping, Digital Imaging, Retouching – What do you call it?

What terms do you use to describe the creation of photographic images or illustrations in Photoshop?

Photo post – Bad Hair Day

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 [...]