by kbpadmn | Black and White, Creativity, Digital Photography, Inspiration, Landscape Photography, New Hampshire
For some they both can be an acquired taste, a little bitter at first but after a while starts to get easier to swallow. Just think about the first time you tried to shoot an epic sunset and came home with nothing but washed out skies or blocked up foreground...
by kbpadmn | Belize, Creativity, Digital Photography, How To, Inspiration, Landscape Photography
As I alluded to in the first two posts of the series (“Getting Picky” and “Creative Exposure”) our photographic journeys are very much an evolution, everyone on their own path and pace. Except unlike the slow and steady pace of biological evolution our evolution as...
by kbpadmn | Acadia National Park, Digital Photography, How To, Inspiration, Landscape Photography
One of the most enjoyable aspects of my career in photography is getting to teach what I love, whether in an intensive workshop format or more formal academic setting. I’ve been teaching digital photography courses at a local college for a little over 13 years. My...
by kbpadmn | Creativity, Digital Photography, Inspiration, Landscape Photography
No, I’m not going to discuss how to keep things sharp during long exposures, time lapse or using a view camera. My new quest in life is to create a slow photography movement, not unlike the slow food movement. I’ve noticed a somewhat alarming trend in recent years,...
by kbpadmn | Belize, Digital Photography, How To, Inspiration, Landscape Photography
Sometimes we’re too close to our work to make the right judgment about whether it’s good or not good; whether an image is a keeper or destined to a life of obscurity in the deep recesses of a hard drive. More specifically I think we’re too close to the event or...
by kbpadmn | Deserts, Digital Photography, How To, Inspiration, Landscape Photography
All photographers are students of light but as landscape specialists we’ve got to be keenly aware of the subtle nuances of light on the landscape, particularly if we want our images to stand out in a crowd of ever-growing landscape imagery. In my last post “Getting...
by kbpadmn | Deserts, Digital Photography, How To, Inspiration, Landscape Photography
No, not like that. Geesh get your minds out of the gutter! I mean truly getting lucky with the light and atmospheric conditions when out photographing. There is a great quote, I think by Arnold Palmer or some other famous golfer about how the longer he practices...
by kbpadmn | Digital Photography, Inspiration, Landscape Photography, Vermont
I’ve been a reluctant and inconsistent user of social media. I’m one of those Gen Xers that actually wrote and passed paper notes to friends in high school. I remember when google was just a number. I learned to use a road atlas and not rely on a little blue pin...
