Intermediate Photography Blog Posts
Photography and Security Blankets This post was inspired by working with photographers during the following classes: Introduction To Photography Class Intermediate Photography Class Ongoing Study And Practice Support Meeting Blankets Feel Great. Don’t They? Blankets feel great. Especially security blankets. While they don’t eliminate the things that we feel insecure/anxious about, they can […]
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What Are The Best Exposure Settings In DSLR Cameras? The Background For This Blog Post While this question comes up frequently and is addressed, in the Introduction to Photography class. It is also addressed in the Intermediate Photography class because in the Intermediate Photography class we begin to become more light-centric. Exposure Settings
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he In Photography Our Lens Is Like Our Eye Overview During the Introduction To Photography class, we talk about aperture. To be clear, the aperture is also known as f-stop. Furthermore, the aperture is an opening in the lens that we can make bigger or smaller. While we can talk about aperture controlling our
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What We All Do As Photographers What We All Do As Photographers Overview During my Learn To Think Like A Photographer classes, the photographers that I work with usually aren’t aware of how involved they are in creating their photographs. Once they become aware of what they’re doing, it’s easy to see how paying attention to
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How A Pen And Paper Will Help You Learn Photography Overview When I first moved to DC, before I started teaching my own photography classes in Washington DC, I began teaching photography at a place called the Washington School of Photography. Specifically, I began teaching photojournalism, but I found myself enjoying teaching and
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Photography-Do Not Get Distracted By The Gear Sometimes when I talk with photographers they seem to want to know more about how something works instead of understanding how to work it. Did you ever see one of those mechanical, wind-up watches where ya could see the internal workings of the watch? In other, words you
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Automation and Photography Did ya ever call a company and get stuck in their automated customer service, seven layers of hell, call routing loop? Don’t ya hate that? In general, I’m OK with automation. Because, when used wisely, automation can save us time and increase efficiency. And when considering that I’ve saved time
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ISO Is Like A Hearing Aid The material we use to record light can be compared to whatever part of our ear hear sounds. Similarly, ISO can be compared to a hearing aid. Sound And Our Ears Our ears hear sound. And when it comes to sound, If our ear can’t hear sound perceived
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Critiquing Our Photographs By Using The Word Crisp The Trouble With Words. When we critique our work we use words, however we may use a different word than someone else when talking about the same thing. What does the word crisp mean when it comes to photography? Better still, what is it that were observing
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To me, In photography, light and lighting are different. While creating photographs is what we do as photographers, light, and lighting are things to consider when we are doing our photography. Many photographers tell me that they want to learn about “lighting.” When I ask them what they mean by lighting, it winds up that
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