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Do you find photography interesting? If ya do then you’re in the right place. I’m Sam D’Amico and this is my website. I’m a professional photographer and professional photography teacher.
While you’re here, take some time, look around and make some comments.
In short, this website is about selling photographs as prints, licensing rights managed stock photography and photography classes.
Specifically, as a professional photographer, I sell prints of my work and license my photographs as rights managed stock photography. In addition, as a professional photography teacher, I post information about my photography classes and I write blog posts based on conversations that happen during my photography classes.
I’m not sure how you wound up here but I’m glad that you’re here.
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What’s A Common Mistake Photographers Make?
Thinking that the equipment matters more than the photographer. You can engage in a good photography practice with whatever camera you’ve got. You want better photographs? Pay attention. Pay attention to the light that you’re observing and if the light that you’re seeing initiates the impulse to create a photograph then use whatever camera you’ve
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Seeing, Thinking And Cameras
Assuming our eyes are ok, we’ve been seeing since we opened our eyes as babies. Our eyes take in everything in our field of view. Once in a while we see something that gets our attention and we get the impulse to take out our camera and make a photograph. That’s where the thinking begins.
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Drawing Inspiration – Helen Levitt
Drawing Inspiration – Helen Levitt 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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Metering Patterns And Exposure.
In terms of metering and exposure: Your camera has a variety of metering patterns/modes. Metering patterns that utilize the entire viewfinder get you into the ballpark in terms of your exposure. Metering patterns that utilize a specific area of the viewfinder gets you into the section and row where your seat is located. Adjusting your
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Feelin’ Blue? How About, Red, Green Or Any Other Color?
Color evokes emotion. Green with envy, feeling blue, seeing red, etc. You can use the white balance setting on your camera to manipulate how color appears in your pictures. When you use the white balance settings on your camera to get intentional color shifts you can bring in an additional emotional element of color into
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What Your Flash Does
Your flash is a light source that… Can add light to your photograph… Reduces contrast… Appears to freeze motion… Can be mixed with available light in different proportions… Can be made brighter or darker…. Will help you to be a more versatile photographer… Study And Practice Photography With Sam.
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The Light Meter In A Camera
The light meter in our camera measures the intensity (brightness) of light. Nothing more, nothing less. This measurement of light is expressed as an exposure. An exposure is expressed in terms of a combination of aperture, shutter speed and ISO. If we are working our camera in an auto-exposure mode, our camera picks an exposure
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Communicating With A Camera
For photographers the camera is a tool that is used to make a photograph. It’s what we use to visually communicate facts or opinions through a photograph. In order to be an effective photographer and visual communicator It is important that we feel at ease with using whatever camera we’re working with. We should be
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Bruce Gilden and Joel Meyerowitz – Street Photographers
If nothing else, Mr. Gilden’s approach reminds us, and his subjects, that there is no privacy in public.
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