Black & White photography will always be classic.   Its popularity waxes and wanes, but it'll never completely go out of style-- the look is timeless.  Stripped of color, images in black and white focus on the subject and enhance its emotional impact.  So why consider using Black and white photography in your communications? Click here to see the full post....

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About: Philip Nealey is an Omaha Nebraska based photographer his specialities include:  Advertising, Corporate, editorial, portrait and Architectural Photography. 

Over the summer I spent several weeks documenting a family in Chicago. We had only a few hours one day to get this shot of seven planes and the eight family pilots and their spouses. We came up with the idea on the day of the shoot so no pre-production. Three of the planes had to be flown in from other airports around chicago to our shoot location at the Dupage Airport. Once the airplanes where arranged and a private jet was moved out of the background we were ready to go, but we only had a few minutes to get the shot. It was a beautiful day, but as you can see by the shadows, not ideal lighting conditions. I tried to wait for a cloud -- but none would not cooperate. The panorama was shot in four pieces.  My solution was to set up one flash head directly over the camera and rotate it (my assistant) on the axis of the camera lens. This gave me just enough light to open up the shadows. We were all extremely happy with the results, especially considering in was an impromptu shoot. The final image was put together from five exposures in Photoshop.  It's hard to show how much detail is in this photo. I broke it up into three pieces below.

For the tech geeks out there. The flash was a Speedotron 206VF head w/11" reflector connected to a Speedo 4803CX powerpack at full power (4800WS). For everyone else-- about equivalent to 10 or more on camera flash units firing at once. *

*For you tech geeks flash guide number of 1000 with this reflector.

Philip Nealey is an Omaha Nebraska and Chicago based commercial portrait and aviation :) Photographer and Photoshop expert . For more info vist nealeyphoto.com

This image is part of a series featuring a new technique I've been experimenting with. Portrait of Sarah was done with the same technique. 

Philip Nealey is an Omaha Nebraska based portrait, lifestye and food Photographer / Photoshop expert .

 To see more phtotography and digttal imageing visit nealeyphoto.com or direct Portraits, Children, Retouching - before&after 

Many times people ask me if they should take off their glasses for a photo. I always tell them no-- if your wearing glasses during the photo session most likely wear them all the time. When people take them off they are uncomfortable and they squint and in general are more uncomfortable. Glasses become a part of your persona-- when I'm taking a portrait I want to capture everything that makes you, you. I also personally feel glasses can add interest to the photo. I really like the reflection on Jared's glasses in the portrait below. Because we had mixed lighting in the room the reflection from the windows is very blue while the rest of the image is made up of warmer tones. His eyes are also not obscured by the reflection, if they were it just wouldn't work. As for taking the lenses out of the frames-- just looks strange to me.

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A talented landscape photographer once told me the only difference between his photos and the average person is that he got up at 3 a.m. — slight oversimplification however point well taken. For the architectural exterior photo below I did need to get up about 4:30 a.m. to set up before the sun rose a little before 6 a.m. (need time for coffee to take effect).

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A new image from a current project (more info later). Larry was a great subject.

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Okay... a new version of nealeyphoto.com is up and running. There is still work to do but I think it's time to let it loose in the wild. So come on in and poke around for a while. If something breaks let me know. Please also feel free to make any suggestions you might feel would make the site easier to navigate. You can also find some useful tips on my previous post. Here. I will also be posting more regularly in the blog/news section -- I may start integrating this site with unsharpmasked.com a bit -depends on the feedback.