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.
Answer: It depends on the photographer whether to create pictures in RAW or some other file type. The best way to remove blur and “fix” exposure, regardless of file type, is in camera during the creation of the picture. Study And Practice Photography With Sam
Being a Photographer – Seeing And Thinking We all see. We all think about what we see. As photographers, sometimes we think about what we are are seeing in terms of how we could could make a picture outta what we are seeing. That’s the impulse to make a photograph. That’s when we take out
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Other than it being a DSLR, I don’t know much about that camera. Whatever camera ya’ get, Id’ suggest your lens is something to think about. Are ya gonna be makin’ pictures of grizzlies or squirrels? Study And Practice Photography With Sam
Question: Will Canon 1300D fit for wildlife photography? Read More »
Don’t count on window light. Work with light that you can control. https://www.flaxandtwine.com/2013/02/diy-photo-light-box-a-finish-fifty-project/ Study And Practice Photography With Sam
Blue goes to number one Red to number two. Green to number three and so on. Painting by numbers are rules of composition. Relying on rules of composition and the auto exposure modes on your camera are like painting by numbers. Even if ya gotta use an auto exposure mode, toss out the rules. Study
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They usually ain’t the same. What we usually want is to make photographs like the ones we’ve seen in the past or the ones we imagine that we’ll make in the future. That future photograph can be the one we imagine we’ll create based on something we’re seeing now. We don’t know what the future
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We can get stuck in thoughts of whether our photographs are good or if we are good photographers. Ideas of good vary as judgements in terms of “I like ” or ” I don’t like”. If ya want your work, or you as a photographer, judged in terms of “good”, no one is more qualified
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As soon as we ask that question we begin to limit our photography. A better question is, what can we do? “Should” is a dead end. “Can” is open ended and allows for possibilities and variations. Study And Practice Photography With Sam
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Answer: Bokeh has nothing to do with your camera. Bokeh is an effect caused by the shape of the aperture. The aperture is in your lens. Use your aperture to get a the shallowest depth of field possible and focus as close as possible. Study And Practice Photography With Sam
Why? That question allows us to engage what we do as photographers. What we do in terms of our compositions and in terms of what we do with our cameras to create the compositions that we intend to create. A simple three letter word posed as a question opens the door to creating photographs that
