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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Drawing Inspiration – Manuel Alvarez Bravo 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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Good enough to do the work that we want to do. No more. No Less. Once you start making photographs, you’ll know what you need to know and you’ll know what you don’t need to know. Ya don’t have to be a “know it all” and you don’t even know how to use every function
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Five (5) Things To Practice With Whatever Camera We’re Using Right Now That Could Improve Our Photography. Seeing And Thinking. Framing And Content. Tonality. Focusing. Critiquing. Five things. OK, there’s really seven but some are closely related so I combined ’em for efficiency. We could practice ’em separately by paying attention to a specific thing
When making color photographs with our cameras, we should remember our understanding of “white balance (WB)” and “color balance” can be used to make impactful photographs. The Kelvin Scale The Kelvin scale describes the color of an illuminating light source and goes from red to blue. The lower the Kelvin number, the redder the light
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Don’t think about producing “art”. Produce pictures that reflect your mind. Each of our minds perceive what we see differently. If art is “unique” and our perceptions are different, then it seems to me that if we create photographs based on our “unique mind”, the “art” takes care of itself. If you’re interested, here’s some
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Depending on what was applied during post. I think it gets to the point where I’d consider something as “photography based”. Study And Practice Photography With Sam
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Here it Is: “I have a beautiful new DSLR camera but I’m mostly on auto mode because I don’t have to tweak all the settings. How do professionals set up their cameras for each shot?” Here’s my Answer: “Whether professionals or amateurs, I can’t speak for all photographers. I prefer to work in manual exposure
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