Learn To Think Like A Photographer Class-Blog Posts
Sam D’Amico is a professional photographer and photography teacher and offers classes in Washington DC. Specifically, he’s been a professional photographer since the mid-1980’s and started teaching photography professionally in the late 1990’s.
The blog posts are inspired by conversations that happen with photographers during the Learn To Think Like A Photographer classes that Sam offers.
More importantly, the blog posts are intended to get you thinking about your photography and photography practice.
If you have any comments or questions, please leave them in the “Reply” area at the bottom of each post.
Photography And Mindfulness The Background Motivation For This Blog Post Recently, a participant in one of my classes took me aside after class and mentioned that the way I taught photography reminded them of their “mindfulness” practice. Mindfulness Mindfulness seems to be a big thing lately. However, it was always a big thing. I […]
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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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When Shopping For a Camera-Get The Facts I was once offered an axiom. Specifically, “for a buck fifty and my opinion I’d a get a cup of coffee”. In other words, my opinion is worthless when it comes to gettin’ me that cup a coffee. Opinions and Facts Simply put, I think that our opinion
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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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Learn To Work With A Camera – A blog post based on conversations with photographers. Learn To Work With A Camera If were gonna be photographers we gotta learn to work with a camera because a camera is what we usually use to make a picture. On one hand, cameras ALL do the
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Photography Critiques Are We Looking For Validation? Or… – A blog post based on conversations with photographers. Maybe, We’re Lookin’ To Improve Lookin’ to improve is different than getting validation. Lookin’ to improve is an active involvement in our work. While lookin’ to get validation is a matter seeking opinion on whether our work is
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What is there to know about our photography – A blog post based on conversations with photographers. Photography In General and Our Photography Please note the distinction I made in the title “our photography”. Just for clarity, when I say “our photography” I mean our photography as individual photographers. As an example, I’ll use myself
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Photographs That Are Full Of Life – A blog post based on conversations with photographers While working with a photographer during the The VERY Basics of Photography – (Sam’s Version Of A Camera-Phone Class), the photographer mentioned a photographer that she knew and then went on to describe that photographers’ work as “full of life”.
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