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Back Light: 5 Tips for Taming the Beast

by kbpadmn | Acadia National Park, Creativity, Digital Photography, Landscape Photography, Uncategorized

“Autumn Surprise,” Groton SF, Vermont,  Sony A7RII, 52mm f16 @ 1/50 ISO 100 As photographers we’re keenly aware of light every time we head out to shoot, or at least we should be!  There are few elements that can improve a photograph quicker than light, it...

Selective Blending

by kbpadmn | Acadia National Park, Creativity, Digital Photography, How To, Inspiration, Landscape Photography, Uncategorized

To blend, or not to blend: that is the question: or at least it’s a question that I get asked regularly by many curious photographers and workshop students.  Another question that runs in the same vein as this one goes like this; “Is this HDR?”  Well here’s my answer,...

5 Secrets to Killer Sunstars

by kbpadmn | Creativity, Deserts, Digital Photography, How To, Inspiration, Landscape Photography, Uncategorized

 Okay, I’ll admit it; I’m a sucker for elegantly crisp sunstars.  I may go so far as to say that I’m addicted to them; not in a shady, I’ll break into your house for prescription meds kind of way, but more like if it’s readily available I’m happy to imbibe sort of...

Don’t be a Slave to Foreground

by kbpadmn | Creativity, Digital Photography, How To, Inspiration, Landscape Photography, Nove Scotia

Over the past several years I’ve notice my work evolving more toward favoring the wide-angle landscape.  What can I say?  I’m addicted to big scenes and wide-angle compositions that showcase a stunning landscape and dramatic sky.  In composing scenes like these I...

Photograph with Intent – Part 3 “The Decisive Moment”

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...
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Kurt Budliger is a professional photographer and educator based in Vermont. His photographs and articles have appeared in numerous books, calendars and magazines and are routinely used by conservation organizations working to protect wild lands. His clients have included Outdoor Photographer, Popular Photography, National Geographic Adventure, Outside Magazine, Vermont Life Magazine, Eastern Fly Fishing, Patagonia, 1% for the Planet, Trout Unlimited, Trust for Public Land, The Nature Conservancy, and many more.

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