Episode 0016: Interview with William Neill, Canon Nature and Landscape Photographer

by Dave Warner on September 8, 2009

LensFlare 35 is a weekly show brought to you by Dave Warner. In this week’s episode, Dave interviews Canon Photographer William Neill. Bill is a photographer concerned with conveying the deep, spiritual beauty he sees and feels in Nature. His award-winning photography has been widely published in books, magazines, calendars, posters, and his limited-edition prints have been collected and exhibited in museums and galleries nationally, including the Museum of Fine Art Boston, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, The Vernon Collection, and The Polaroid Collection.

(C) William Neill

In this episode, Bill talks about what it’s like to wake up in Yosemite every morning, some of the most photographed areas, what conservation photography is, what steps he goes through in composing and then taking one of his images, a landscape tip most of us might not of heard of before, how to put your portfolio together, and his top ten tips from his column in Outdoor Photographer Magazine.

List of Questions (PDF format)

Equipment and Software mentioned in this podcast: Adobe Lightroom, Adobe Photoshop CS4, Blurb Publishing, Outdoor Photographer Magazine, Canon 17 mm tilt shift lens, Canon EOS 1Ds Mark III, Canon 70-200 mm F4 lens, Canon 17-40 mm lens, Canon 85mm F1.4 lens, Canon 2x ExtenderCanon Extension Tube EF25, and Canon 100 mm F2.8 macro lens.

Show Sponsors: ExpoImaging, Inc., ScanCafe

To listen to the full podcast interview, click on the player’s forward arrow below. You can also play the Podcast in a popup window, download it OR subscribe to it via iTunes. We created a special video of Bill’s images with his explanation of each that opens in a popup window, just click, watch and listen.

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