As photographers we are experiencing what we photograph while we are creating a photograph. We experience what we photograph with all of our senses and usually we experience thoughts and feelings about what we are experiencing. Depending on the intent of our photography, we can make photographs of things as they are, or we can
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Drawing Inspiration – Eve Arnold 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.
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The form/content of a picture can elicit a emotional/psychological response. If a picture is black and white, then form/content alone elicits a emotional/psychological response. If a picture is color, then form/content with the addition of color elicits a emotional/psychological response based on content and color. Color, used in a subtle or not so subtle way,
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Consider the weather if your camera malfunctions. Check the “specifications” part of the owners manual for your camera for information about the range of temperatures and the humidity that your camera can be operated in. Study And Practice Photography With Sam.
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Think Twice. Some contests take a substantial part, if not all, of the copyright to your work. This is good for the folks running the contest, bad for photographers who submit their work. There’s a group called Pro-Imaging that is helping educate photographers about how entering these rights-grabbing contests negatively impact not only the photographers
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In short, an adaptive photographer is a highly-skilled generalist with a solid understanding of light. The longer explanation is a more interesting read. Keep scrollin’. What’s an Adaptive Photographer? There’s a lot of adaptive photographers out there. Some are professional, and some are amateur. But what they have in common is a solid understanding
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Observe light. (See) Learn to work your camera. (How to operate your camera to record HOW you see.) If you’d like some in-person guidance. https://samdamico.com/studying-photography-washington-dc-sam-damico/ If you’d like some online guidance. Being A Photographer – An Online Photography Course Created And Presented By Sam D’Amico— or Log into Facebook | Facebook
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A DSLR, (Digital Single Lens Reflex Camera) light and a photographer. Simple. We set the camera to whatever exposure mode that we are comfortable using, compose the picture, press the shutter release and we’ve got a photograph. We either like the picture that we produced or we don’t like the picture that we produced. If
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