The following video tutorial offers some suggestion on how I think that the owners manual should be used so it doesn’t seem so overwhelming. In order for you to improve your photography, you need to learn how to operate your camera effectively.
Aug 23, 2010 | Categories:Free Photography Tips | Tags: camera operation, camera owners manual, photographer, photography, specifics, suggestion, video tutorial | Leave A Comment »
There are only 11 days left to save fifty percent off of any print or license priced at $ 35.00 and above. Whether you’re a graphic designer or other creative professional looking to use photography for commercial or editorial use, or you’re simply looking to add some interest to your walls with a piece of [...]
May 20, 2010 | Categories:Rights Managed Stock Photography | Tags: affordable art, Art, art prints, commercial photography, editorial photography, home decor, photographic print, photography, prints, Rights Managed Stock Photography, stock photography | Leave A Comment »
Sometimes it’s obvious that I don’t know what I’m doing. I’ve got all these great tools in front of me in terms of working more efficiently and I don’t even see’em. Technology can be helpful, but only if you see how to use it. I eventually see it but it usually takes me awhile! I’ve [...]
May 02, 2010 | Categories:Rights Managed Stock Photography | Tags: photography, photography galleries, prints for sale, Rights Managed Stock Photography, stock photography | Leave A Comment »

Sam D’Amico creates original photography that can be licensed for editorial and commercial use. Prints are available. Whether you’re looking to license an image or buy a print, please visit The Sam D’Amico Photography Archives.
Mar 09, 2010 | Categories:Rights Managed Stock Photography | Tags: photographic prints, photographs, photography, pictures, prints, prints for sale, Rights Managed Stock Photography, stock photography | Comments Off
Nov 24, 2009 | Categories:Rights Managed Stock Photography | Tags: Art, artistry, band, close up, day, detail, fine art, holding, horizontal, large, marching band, mid-section, music, musical instrument, musician, parade, Photograph, photographs, photography, r.m., rights managed, Rights Managed Stock Photography, rights protected, rm, stock photography, stock photos, tuba, uniform, white, white gloves, yellow | Leave A Comment »
It seems that every time I get settled somewhere on the web, I learn of a new service being offered that comes closer to my “wish list” for my home on the internet. This latest incarnation of “websites hosted and designed for photographers” seems to be the closest to my dream home on the web that I’ve seen yet.
Oct 28, 2009 | Categories:Learn Photography, Rights Managed Stock Photography | Tags: blog, e-commerce, Graph Paper Press, instruction, photographer, photographer websites, photography, photoshelter, Rights Managed Stock Photography, SEO, Visual Society, Word Press, workshops | Leave A Comment »

I think that if the photographers who favor summer began to notice the visual richness of fall and winter they would be carrying their cameras equally throughout the year.
Sep 22, 2009 | Categories:Rights Managed Stock Photography | Tags: autumn, back light, backlit, Color, color temperature, fall, fence, foliage, glow, leaf, maple leaf, Online Photography Classes, orange, Photograph, photographic prints, photography, prints, Rights Managed Stock Photography, stock photography, stuck, trapped, vertical, wire fence, yellow | Leave A Comment »

The event that closed public access to the right arm and torch of the Statue of Liberty is mostly overlooked in history classes and at the monument also.
Jul 28, 2009 | Categories:Rights Managed Stock Photography | Tags: America, Americana, architectural, architectural detail, architecture, Art, art movement, art movements, building, close up, concept, concepts, conceptual, day, daytime, democracy, detail, freedom, images, land, monument, National monument, outdoors, outside, photo, photographs, photography, photos, pic, pics, pictures, prints, Rights Managed Stock Photography, rm, Statue of Liberty, Statue of Liberty Enlightening the World, stock photo, stock photography, stock photos, structures, symbol, symbolic, symbolism, tourism, travel, United States, United States of America, USA, vertical, vertical images | Leave A Comment »

Click on the photograph of Backyard Fireworks, Sewell NJ, July 2007.to see more information and a larger version. Background Information: While attending a party in the NJ suburb of Sewell, NJ fireworks were bring ignited in the backyard at around 5:00pm. The view of the fireworks during daytime, in an empty suburban backyard, struck me as [...]
Jul 17, 2009 | Categories:Rights Managed Stock Photography | Tags: backyard, celebrate, celebration, day, daylight, daytime, entertainment, environment, environmentalism, fence, fireworks, horizontal, images, land, lawn, nature, outdoors, outside, photo, photographs, photography, pic, pictures, Rights Managed Stock Photography, rm, scenery, stock photography, stock photos, suburban, suburban landscape, suburbia, suburbs, summer, trees Summer | Leave A Comment »

Click on the photograph of the Statue-Of-Liberty-Close-Up-Side-View to see more information and a larger version. I know I’m a bit late on this story, but at least I made it before the actual opening. Better late than never. From a press release issued by the National Park Service on May 8, 2009 and a pdf [...]
Jul 02, 2009 | Categories:Rights Managed Stock Photography | Tags: 4th. of July, architectural, architectural detail, architecture, Art, art movement, art movements, building, close up, concept, concepts, conceptual, democracy, detail, edifice, edifices, Fourth of July, freedom, Independence Day, July 4, land, monument, National monument, photography, photos, pics, prints, Rights Managed Stock Photography, scenery, Statue of Liberty, Statue of Liberty Enlightening the World, stock photo, structures, symbol, symbolic, symbolism, tourism, travel, vertical | 1 Comment »

Fortunately for me, since I’m as much a wildlife photographer as I am a neurosurgeon, we can get some interesting wildlife photographs at some not so wild places.
Jun 30, 2009 | Categories:Rights Managed Stock Photography | Tags: animal, Animal Planet Australia: Wild Extremes! exhibit, animals, Australian, Australian Freshwater Crocodile, Baltimore, creature, creatures, crocodile, Crocodilia, crocodilian, Crocodylidae, Crocodylus johnstoni, Fish crocodile, Freshie, freshwater, horizontal, image, images, Inner Harbor, Johnston's crocodile, Johnston's river crocodile, Maryland, National Aquarium, photo, Photograph, photographs, photography, photos, pic, pics, pictures, prints, reflection, reptile, Reptilia, Rights Managed Stock Photography, rm, stock photo, stock photography, stock photos, undomesticated animals, water, wildlife, zoology images | 1 Comment »
If I pass a store and it has an outdoor display on the sidewalk, I could take whatever is out there, right? After all, the display is on a public sidewalk, so whatever is in public and easy to take, is anyone’s property, yes ? Of course not. Just because something is in public [...]
Jun 29, 2009 | Categories:Business Of Photography, Copy-wrongs | Tags: A Photo Editor, Business Of Photography, copyright infringemnt, copyright issues, Flickr, home decorating, New York Times, NY Times, photography, Sonia Zjawinski, stealing | 2 Comments »
The hypocrisy and greed of these corporations is astounding.
Jun 21, 2009 | Categories:Business Of Photography, Copy-rights, Copy-wrongs | Tags: ABC, AMPTP, Art, artists, Ben Silverman, Bob Iger, business of art, Business Of Photography, CBS, comedy, commerce, copyright, copyright issues, Daily Show, Disney, Fox, intellectual property, Les Moonves, NBC, photographer, photography, Rupert Murdoch, satire, Sumner Redstone, Viacom, WGA, writers strike | Leave A Comment »

Using my perception of “gloomy” to drive my composition, I chose a white balance of fluorescent to give the image a feeling of “the blues”.
Jun 18, 2009 | Categories:Rights Managed Stock Photography | Tags: America, apartment building, apartment house, apartments, architectural, architecture, block of flats, Blue, blurred, blurred motion, blurry, building, cityscape, cold, coldness, Columbia Heights, concept, concepts, conceptual, coolness, District of Columbia, dominant color, dominant colour, ecology, ecosystem, edifice, edifices, emotion, emotional, emotions, environment, environmentalism, gloomy, home, horizontal, images, moody, North America, photo, photographs, photography, pic, pictures, rain, rainfall, rainshower, rainstorm, rainy, real estate, residence, residential building, Rights Managed Stock Photography, rm, seasons, shower, soft focus, stock photography, stock photos, structures, U.S., United States, United States of America, US, USA, Washington D.C., Washington DC, weather, Winter, wintertime | Leave A Comment »
The truth of the matter is that giving a useful critique on subjective matter, like someone else’s photography, requires a collaboration, or dialogue, between the one giving the critique and the one being critiqued.
May 11, 2009 | Categories:Learn Photography | Tags: Art, classes, critiques, instruction, online, opinion, Photographic Composition And Design, photography | Leave A Comment »
In terms of the color temperature of the light source, it is what it is. Any color cast comes from the relationship between the White Balance setting (Kelvin/Color temperature) on your camera and the color temperature of the light source; Where do they lie in relationship to one another on the Kelvin scale?
Mar 23, 2009 | Categories:Learn Photography | Tags: Color, color cast, color temperature, Kelvin temperature, light, photography, white balance | Leave A Comment »
Beyond adding more or less light, aperture is an important element in our compositions because it allows us to control something called depth of field.
Feb 27, 2009 | Categories:Basic Photography, Learn Photography | Tags: aperture, depth of field, f-stop, Introduction To Photography, lens, photography | Leave A Comment »
Facebook’s terms of use are still unreasonably greedy and as such I’m careful about what I’m willing to post there.
Feb 26, 2009 | Categories:Copy-wrongs | Tags: copyright, Facebook, photography | Comments Off
According to this quote by Claude Adams, luckily it’s not our camera. “Having a camera makes you no more a photographer than having a hammer and some nails makes you a carpenter.” – Claude Adams
Jan 26, 2009 | Categories:Learn Photography | Tags: Art, artist, camera, creativity, personal perception, photographer, Photographic Composition And Design, photography, vision | Leave A Comment »
Many people who are interested in the Lighting With Portable Flash Workshop, who have yet to invest in a separate flash unit, ask me for advice on purchasing a flash. Since I can only talk about my experiences and the equipment that I’ve used, I’m reluctant to give anyone advice about anything beyond my experience. I think that [...]
Jan 14, 2009 | Categories:Learn Photography | Tags: flash, Flash Photography, lighting, photography, portable flash, strobe, sync cord, vivitar, vivitar 285, wein safe-sync | 3 Comments »
What do we need to pay to create GOOD photographs and yet cost us nothing out of our pockets?
Oct 06, 2008 | Categories:Uncategorized | Tags: equipment, personal perception, Photographic Composition, Photographic Compostion And Creativity, photography | 2 Comments »

Buy This Print - License This Image “One of the greatest difficulties the photographer, and especially the amateur has to encounter, lies in correctly estimating his exposure.” – Vero Charles Driffield During my Introduction to Photography classes and my Metering and Exposure Classes I stress that the exposure setting that our camera provides us with is merely [...]
Sep 21, 2008 | Categories:About The Photograph | Tags: exposure, metering, photography | Leave A Comment »