Ben Kitching Photography

Ben Kitching Photography I'm an Adventure Photographer and Marmot Ambassador based in Bend, Oregon.

This provides me with easy access to Smith Rock, Trout Creek, and the Cascades where I can continuously work to perfect my craft as a photographer, climber, skier, and backpacker.

02/18/2026

📷 Post 2/18 on Adventure Photography Camera Settings. Today’s Topic: Shutter Speed

🏃‍♀️ As one third of the exposure triangle, shutter speed controls how much light enters your camera. But, it also controls how you capture motion.

⛷️ A slow shutter speed will blur motion while a fast shutter speed will freeze motion.

🧗 Most of the time in adventure photography, we are trying to freeze motion, but there are a few circumstances when you may want to blur it. It’s all a creative choice.

02/17/2026

📷 Post 1/18 on how to master your camera settings. We’re starting with the basics, understanding the exposure triangle. It isn’t as hard as it’s made out to be. It’s just three variables that all control how much light is in your image: shutter speed, aperture, and ISO. When you change one, you can offset it with the other two.

12/26/2025

📷 Shooting in bad light isn’t impossible, it just takes intention. You can’t just spray and pray. You have to pay attention to the light and learn how to work with what you have.

🥾 I’ve distilled 10 years of knowledge down to this simple flowchart. It’s how I approach any scene in the middle of the day.

🌞 Want to learn more? Comment “BAD LIGHT” and I’ll send you my free guide on how to shoot in any light.

12/23/2025

📷 Getting the right exposure can be tricky in harsh light. Here’s a few tips to getting it right.

🧗 First, you want to pay attention to your histogram. You often can’t get an accurate representation of what you’re shooting from your LCD screen in harsh conditions so you need to rely on something more accurate.

🌞 When shooting in harsh light, there are often trade offs. You can’t expose everything perfectly. Most information is stored in the highlights of your photo, so you want to lean towards overexposing your image.

🏞️ The caveat, is that if you blow out any highlight, your picture is ruined. So you want to make your photo as bright as possible without blowing your highlights.

⛅️ And easy tip to reduce the dynamic range of your image is to keep the sky out of the photo. It often the brightest part of your image so keeping it can knock down your highlights a few stops.

🏜️ Want to learn more? Comment “BAD LIGHT” and I’ll send you my free guide on how to shoot in any light.

12/22/2025

📷 My go-to shot for harsh light: the backlit telephoto long shot.

🏞️ There are two keys to this: 1) backlighting and 2) the telephoto lens.

🏕️ Backlighting essentially shades the side of your subject that is facing the camera, creating a soft light.

🏜️ But, the telephoto lens is the biggest factor. It allows you to zoom in and really be selective with your frame. By keeping the sky out of your photo, you can greatly reduce the dynamic range needed to capture the image, effectively reducing the contrast of the light.

🌞 Want to learn more? Comment “BAD LIGHT” and I’ll send you my free guide on how to shoot in any light.

11/06/2025

📷Day 14/100 of sharing a different Adventure Photography tip each day so you can learn to shoot like the pros.

🧗 Today’s Tip: The best thing to think about if you need more variety in your photo sets, angles. It can be easy to keep taking the same photos. You get ahead of your athlete, step just to the side of the trail, and shoot back. It’s often a great image, but if you have 10 great images from the same trip that all kinda look the same, you’re never going to use them all.

📐 Thinking of different angles that you can get in terms of position (front, side, back, ¾, etc.) and height (low to ground, high, eye level, etc.) will give you a much greater variety of images.

11/05/2025

📷Day 13/100 of sharing a different Adventure Photography tip each day so you can learn to shoot like the pros.

⛷️ Today’s Tip: The Motion Blur Panning Shot. When taking photos, you want to get a variety of images. And, one way to add variety is by using different techniques. The motion blur panning shot is my go-to when I want to add a feeling of movement to my images.

11/04/2025

📷Day 13/100 of sharing a different Adventure Photography tip each day so you can learn to shoot like the pros.

⛷️ Today’s Tip: The Extreme Long Shot. This is a film term for a shot where the subject is really small in the frame. Think small person big landscape.

🧗 In adventure photography this shot is great at showing the landscape and often a key shot in telling your story. Though wide angle lenses can work well for this, I often find myself getting far away from my subject and using a telephoto lens because it will compress the scene bringing the landscape closer to my subject and creating a deeper connection between my athlete and the landscape.

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