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Intermediate Photography – Flash – Light Effected by Flash and Light Not Effected by Flash.

Intermediate Photography – Flash – Light Effected by Flash and Light Not Effected by Flash. When we use flash we can begin to see elements of our composition as light effected by flash and light not effected by flash. Everything in our photograph is light not effected by flash until it becomes effected by flash. […]

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Being A Photographer – Framing and Content

Being A Photographer – Framing and Content Framing is an element of composition that we utilize to isolate what we feel is an interesting “segment” of everything we see. Content are the elements of composition that we not only put in to the frame but organize into a two dimensional design within the frame. Study

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Question: How do I set an aperture to less than 4 with a telephoto lens (over 50 mm) on a Nikon D3300?

The camera has nothing to do with this. The lens may not allow for that much exposure. If you’re using a variable focal length (zoom) lens, the effective exposure of the lens may vary at different focal lengths. Study And Practice Photography With Sam D’Amico—  

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Being A Photographer – Goals and Immediate Effort (Process) In Our Photography

Being A Photographer – Goals and Immediate Effort (Process) In Our Photography There’s what we intend to do (goal) and the effort needed to realize the goal (process). When we fixate on the goal we don’t pay attention to process. It’s one thing to say we want results. it’s another to make effort to get

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Question: Can a pinhole camera work without memory cards?

Any camera can work without a memory card. A memory card is used for storage, not for making a picture. The memory card stores the photographs that are created on a digital sensor. The sensor records. The camera then transfers the recorded photographs to a memory card for storage. Study And Practice Photography With Sam

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Question: How do old photographers who are used to traditional style of photography keep up with the new age photographers who are good at candid shots?

Take a look at the work of Helen Levitt, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Frank, Lee Friedlander, Bruce Gilden, Joel Meyerowitz, I can go on. Your question, and the presumptions on which your question is based, reveal your ignorance of the photographers who’ve preceded you. Study And Practice Photography With Sam

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Question: Do professional photographers shoot only in RAW format for professional work? Are there any ways to remove blur or fix exposure in jpeg images?

Answer: It depends on the photographer whether to create pictures in RAW or some other file type. The best way to remove blur and “fix” exposure, regardless of file type, is in camera during the creation of the picture. Study And Practice Photography With Sam

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Getting to Know Your Camera – What’s There To Know?

Getting to Know Your Camera – What’s There To Know? Since cameras have become “digital cameras” they have also become computers. On a base level, computers are information processing tools. On a base level cameras are light recording tools. A photograph is nothing more than a recording of light. Digital cameras not only record light,

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Being a Photographer – Seeing And Thinking

Being a Photographer – Seeing And Thinking We all see. We all think about what we see. As photographers, sometimes we think about what we are are seeing  in terms of how we could could make a picture outta what we are seeing. That’s the impulse to make a photograph. That’s when we take out

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