Commodities are bid on in the stock market and the price is driven by supply and demand. Rarities are bid on in auction houses and the price is driven by the highest bidder. When our work looks like the work of other photographers our work becomes a commodity. When our work reflects the way that we […]
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A camera is matter. While we may operate a camera as photographers, It’s our mind that drives the operation of the camera to get the pictures we create. While our cameras matter (and are matter), our mind matters the most. Study And Practice Photography With Sam
The Best Critiques… Does a Better Camera Mean It’s Really Better? Remember, a camera is a tool that we use to record light. Nothing more. Nothing Less. Some of us might think that a better camera is… easy to carry and that we always have with us. has more resolution (megapixels), so
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You mean the one you left at home in the camera bag you didn’t feel like carrying? Don’t despair. Ya’ got a phone on ‘ya? Does your phone have a camera? Wish granted. Make the picture to the best of your ability. Study And Practice Photography With Sam
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That was the question posed after a recent class. Here’s the answer. Anywhere we can see. All we do is see and, if the light effects us in a manner that initiates and impulse to create a photograph, take out a camera to make a photograph to the best of our ability with whatever camera we’ve
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Drawing Inspiration – Donna Ferrato 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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Somewhere near the beginning of most, if not all, of my photography classes I ask the participants a question. “What’s a photograph”. Some of the answers I get, and I’m paraphrasing here, are; “A moment caught in time”, “a memory”, “the capturing of a subject”, et cetera. While a photograph can be thought of as
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Drawing Inspiration – Diane Arbus 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. I work from awkwardness. By that I mean I don’t like to arrange things. If I stand in front of something, instead of arranging it,
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