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.
I Wanna Be A Fill In The Blank Photographer – A blog post based on conversations with photographers. I Wanna Be A (Fill In The Blank) Photographer There’s a lot of specialization in photography. With that in mind, we tend to wanna be a “type” of photographer. Because we wanna be a “specialized” photographer […]
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I think there are important differences between photo editing and photo manipulation. Photo Editing Editing photographs is a selection process during our workflow. As photographers, I think we edit our photographs constantly, and our editing process starts before we reach for our cameras. For example, because cameras are incorporated into our phones, we
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Not everyone is gonna find our photography interesting. There are some people out there that will find our pictures interesting. That’s the icing on the cake. What’s the cake? Our photographs. We gotta produce work that WE find interesting and like. We gotta like and appreciate our own work. If we don’t like and appreciate
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Does The Camera Matter A blog post based on conversations with photographers. Does The Camera Matter In one way yes, in another way, no. The camera matters because it’s the tool we use to create photographs. The camera doesn’t matter because the camera doesn’t make the picture. The photographer makes the picture. The camera is
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Don’t Know How To Do Photography Or Work Your Camera ? Do It! A blog post/written thoughts based on conversations with participants during the photography classes that I teach. If we don’t know how to do something we have to do it in order to be able to do it. If we wanna learn to
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The Process Of Learning Photography I was speaking with a photographer who was considering studying photography with me. Based on our conversation we determined the most effective course of study for her to start with would be one of two classes (or maybe both) that I offer in Washington DC. She asked me, and I’m
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Answer: The camera doesn’t matter. There’s no inherently “best” lens. There is only a “best” lens when considering what’s best for what we do when it comes to our work as photographers. The lenses are the same in focal length but the 1.4 allows for more exposure. Get whatever one you could afford. Study And
Unless this is a psychic ability test, I’ll guess you’re askin’ which one you should choose. That’s up to you. Here’s some help: Can you recommend a camera? Study And Practice Photography With Sam
Question: Which one will I choose, a Canon 200D (SL2) or a Canon 800D (T7I)? Read More »
Rules of composition direct our thought process toward ideas of how our photograph should be. If our thought process has no ideas of how our photograph should be then we can begin to see what could be. A thought process that involves ideas of rules imposes ideas that limit our composition. A thought process that
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Question: Which type of lens is better for portraits, a 50mm f1/8 lens or a 85mm f1/8 lens? Both are the same in terms of maximum exposure. In terms of focal length, which do you prefer? Why not use both? Study And Practice Photography With Sam
