The Perfect Photograph
Doesn’t exist.
The perfect photograph doesn’t exist because perfection doesn’t exist.
Your best photographs are your best photographs, but are they perfect?
Perfection is a perception and since your perception changes so does your idea of perfection.
Don’t waste your time chasing perfection.
Spend your time becoming a better photographer so you can do the best work that you possibly can.
Become a better photographer.
Drawing Inspiration – David Alan Harvey
Drawing Inspiration – David Alan Harvey
Drawing Inspiration is a series of posts dedicated to photographers who have inspired me.
If possible, I’ve included a quote and a link to their work.
“Don’t shoot what it looks like. Shoot what it feels like.” – David Alan Harvey.
http://www.davidalanharvey.com/
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Business Of Photography – Talent
Talent is not enough.
Not only do you need talent you need a good understanding of the business of photography and a strong work ethic.
Your talent is what distinguishes you from every other photographer out there.
A good understanding of the business of photography will help you make good decisions when it comes to pricing your time, services and photography.
A strong [...]
Drawing Inspiration – Leland Bobbé
Drawing Inspiration – Leland Bobbé
Drawing Inspiration is a series of posts dedicated to photographers who have inspired me.
If possible, I’ve included a quote and a link to their work.
Links to Huffington Post article with pictures and website
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/25/leland-bobbes-1970s-new-y_n_3157853.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000009
http://lelandbobbe.com/
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The Most Important Question You Can Ask Yourself As A Photographer Is…
“What do I think of my work?”
Answer it truthfully.
Your photography depends on it.
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Drawing Inspiration – Haley Morris – Cafiero
Drawing Inspiration – Haley Morris – Cafiero
Drawing Inspiration is a series of posts dedicated to photographers who have inspired me.
If possible, I’ve included a quote and a link to their work.
A link to an article with some pictures on Salon.
http://www.salon.com/2013/04/23/pictures_of_people_who_mock_me/?upw
(In)Dependence
If you think that technology will help you be a better photographer then you’ve given control over your photography to the people that want to sell you equipment.
More megapixels, more features, more gadgets, more this, more that.
The people who want to sell you equipment want you to think that there’s always something more in the technology and gadget department to help [...]
Deciding And Decisive
Until you press the shutter release to make an exposure you are a deciding photographer.
When you press the shutter release to make an exposure you are a decisive photographer.
If you are unsure of yourself and continue to make decisions, your pictures are produced from a place of uncertainty. Your work can become diluted if you [...]
Drawing Inspiration – George Tice
Drawing Inspiration – George Tice
Drawing Inspiration is a series of posts dedicated to photographers who have inspired me.
If possible, I’ve included a quote and a link to their work.
“As I progressed further with my project, it became obvious that it was really unimportant where I chose to photograph. The particular place simply provided an excuse [...]
About Being A Better Photographer
Photography Tips From A Photography Teacher That Are Intended To Help You To Be A Better Photographer
Being a Better Photographer is an area of the Sam D’Amico Photography website.
The content of Being A Better Photographer mainly consists of short posts inspired by conversations during his photography classes. The posts are intended to get you thinking [...]
Who Cares?
Who cares about your photography?
I’m not sure.
I am sure of this though, if you don’t care enough about your photography to give it all you’ve got, no one else will care about your photography.
Your work has to show that you care.
If You Want To Be A Photographer
Make photographs.
Don’t concern yourself with equipment.
Don’t concern yourself with how much you know.
Don’t concern yourself with what other people will think of your work.
Don’t concern yourself with anything except making the picture.
Being a photographer is about making photographs.
Do the best you can with whatever camera you have and learn all you can about craft.
Arts And Crafts
Art is vague because art is subjective and is in the eye of the beholder.
I think to identify oneself as an artist is equally vague.
Art involves subjective judgement.
Craft is distinct and identifiable.
You can, with clarity and certainty, identify yourself as a craftsperson.
Craft involves skillful application of technique.
If you are skillful in your craft you are more likely to produce work that someone may judge as art.
Don’t worry about [...]
Drawing Inspiration – Roy DeCarava
Drawing Inspiration – Roy DeCarava
Drawing Inspiration is a series of posts dedicated to photographers who have inspired me.
If possible, I’ve included a quote and a link to their work.
“It’s the not the subject that interests me as much as my perception of the subject.” – Roy DeCarava.
http://decarava.org/
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The Hack
Are you authentic when it comes to your work or are you a hack?
In the book, The War Of Art, Stephen Pressfield, defines a hack in the following manner
“The hack condescends to his audience. He thinks he’s superior to them. The truth is, he’s scared to death of them… scared of being authentic in front of them… [...]
A Different Point Of View
When I judged a photography contest yesterday, I felt that I may have fell short of some expectations.
It was a themed contest titled “A Different Point Of View”.
I have my idea of what “A Different Point Of View” means and the people that I disappointed have a different point of view of what “A Different [...]
Drawing Inspiration – S D Jouhar
Drawing Inspiration – S D Jouhar
Drawing Inspiration is a series of posts dedicated to photographers who have inspired me.
If possible, I’ve included a quote and a link to their work.
“The art of looking at pictures can only be properly acquired by constantly looking at pictures…” – S D Jouhar.
http://www.sdjouhar.com/
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Camera Centric Vs. Light Centric
When you start to learn photography you also start to learn how to work your camera.
You get caught up in learning how to use your camera to create a photograph.
You pay attention to camera operation and equipment
At this point you are camera centric.
While it’s important be camera centric for a period of time, there comes a time when being camera centric [...]
A Photographer’s Raw Material, Continued
This is a follow up post to last weeks entry titled A Photographers Raw Material .
A photographer’s raw material is light. You can’t touch it with your hands. You can’t smell it with your nose. You can’t taste it with your tongue, You can’t hear it with your ears.
You can see light with your eyes and [...]
Drawing Inspiration – James Nachtwey
Drawing Inspiration – James Nachtwey
Drawing Inspiration is a series of posts dedicated to photographers who have inspired me.
If possible, I’ve included a quote and a link to their work.
“It is very hard to say where you’re going until you get there. That kind of thing is based very much on instinct. As a photographer, one [...]
What Makes A Professional Photographer?
Is it having a good eye? No
Is it having a good camera? No.
Is it having excellent skills? No again.
While all of the above are helpful, what makes a photographer a profesional is their attitude toward their work.
A photographer who treats photography as a vocation, and not as an avocation, is a professional.
When your attitude shifts so [...]
A Photographer’s Raw Material
As a photographer, what’s the raw material that you work with?
For example:
A potter works with clay as their raw material.
A carpenter works with wood as their raw material.
A chef works with food as their raw material.
The question is: A photographer works with___?__ as their raw material.
Fill in the blank by leaving a reply below as your answer.
I’ll [...]
Taking Responsibility For Your Photography
You are ultimately responsible for your photography, but you can choose to be totally responsible for your photograph or partially responsible for your photograph.
If you work your camera in an automatic exposure mode you are responsible for working your camera in auto exposure mode.
In automatic exposure mode you have chosen to have your camera pick your [...]
Drawing Inspiration – Freeman Patterson
Drawing Inspiration – Freeman Patterson
Drawing Inspiration is a series of posts dedicated to photographers who have inspired me.
If possible, I’ve included a quote and a link to their work.
“Seeing, in the finest and broadest sense, means using your senses, you intellect, and your emotions. It means encountering your subject matter with your whole being. It [...]
