“…If You Can’t Be With The One You Love,…”

“…Honey, Love The One You’re With” (Stephen Stills). I’ll leave it up to you guys to do your own dit, dit, dits. And I do apologize in advance if the song gets stuck in your head, it’s pretty catchy. It seems as though I’m into the mantra thing lately (see my previous post Just Do It!), especially if it relates to improving one’s photography. As many of you already know, I [...]

By Kurt Budliger | Dec 22, 2011
Posted in: General, Inspiration, New Hampshire, Tech Tips |

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How Photography is like Tequila

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 details. I don’t think I need to remind you about the first time you drank tequila, or maybe someone does? [...]

Want Your Images to Look Different? (part 1)

By Kurt Budliger | Dec 5, 2011
Posted in: Creativity, General, Tech Tips, Vermont |

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Want Your Images to Look Different? (part 1)

Then photograph differently! I don’t mean to be glib, especially since this is my introductory post to the Dreamscapes Blog (give me a couple of more posts and believe me I can be glib) but it’s really true. We’ve all no doubt heard the famous Albert Einstein quote about the definition of insanity: something like doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. Simply put, if [...]

By Ian Plant | Jul 1, 2011
Posted in: eStore, Photoshop |

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Introduction to Raw Conversion

I just want to thank everyone for the overwhelming response to my new Creative Digital Processing video tutorial series. I’m happy to report that the launch has been a great success, and I’m beginning to work on the second part of the series which will start to shift the focus from the ”how” to the “why.” In the meantime, I have embedded below a low res version of one of the two free videos in the tutorial [...]

By Ian Plant | Jun 23, 2011
Posted in: eStore, Video Tutorials |

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New! Creative Digital Processing Video Tutorials

After many months of false starts and hard work, I am pleased to announce the launch of my new series of Creative Digital Processing video tutorials. These videos present my personal digital image processing workflow using Adobe Camera Raw and Adobe Photoshop CS5. The first eight videos in the series focus on basic techniques for raw conversion, working with layers and masks, image editing using adjustment layers, black & white conversion, [...]

By Ian Plant | May 10, 2010
Posted in: Tech Tips |

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How to Photograph Rainbows

Who doesn’t love rainbows? Rainbows are a favorite of nature photographers, and for good reason. Not only are they beautifully vibrant, representing all colors in the spectrum that can be seen by human eyes, but their graceful arcing shapes add compositional interest to photographs. But finding rainbows is a tough business, and doing them justice even tougher. So, what is the best way to photograph a rainbow? My newest free tutorial, [...]

By Ian Plant | Feb 23, 2010
Posted in: Tech Tips |

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Using Live View for Nature Photography

I’ve just posted a new article on my website about Using Live View for Nature Photography. Live View has become a vital part of my image capture process, and I use it for almost every photograph I make to optimize focus, composition, depth-of-field, and even exposure. Live View is a serious professional tool that can help you significantly improve your photography images. My simple tutorial shows you how you can [...]