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 Is Like Cooking. We take what we get or make what we want. Photography Is Like Cooking Lately, I’ve been thinking about how the way I eat changed and how the way my photography changed. In many ways, I think photography is like cooking I’m not a chef, but I’d consider myself a […]
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In my mind lighting is something that’s being done. It’s an activity/process that photographers can engage in. Light is something that stimulates our sight and makes things visible. Before we can improve our lighting, we need to understand light. That tree that we see is light. The reason we can see that tree is because
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During a recent meeting of an Introduction To Photography class, a participant mentioned that they didn’t do their homework because they didn’t have time to got to “an interesting” place to make pictures. Are places inherently interesting? For that matter, is anything inherently “interesting” ? I would suggest that “interesting” is only “interesting” from the
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I don’t buy that bs. If we buy into that we diminish ourselves. We’re all creative, we just express our creativity in different ways. We all “got it”. We just need to cultivate our creativity with study and practice. It’s never to late to cultivate our creativity, however we’re inclined to express it. Study And
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I use a camera. Study And Practice Photography With Sam
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Ya’ ever see something and you think that what you’re seeing would make a great photograph but what you see is so fleeting that you don’t have time to take out your camera to make the photograph? Yup, me too. As Ferris Bueller said, “Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around
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I ain’t no Einstein. In terms of my smarts, I’m probably closer to Frankenstein. While physicists discuss the speed of light, as a photographer I’m more comfortable discussing the speed of reflective light sources. Reflective light sources such as cars moving, people walking/running, stuff moving in the wind. Even things that ain’t moving. When I’m
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An F-stop Is an opening in your lens. While many photographers use the term F-stop, I prefer the word aperture. Aperture, F-stop, we can use whatever term we want. What aperture we pick influences the composition of your photograph in terms of exposure/tonality and depth of field (D.O.F.) Study And Practice Photography With Sam
This just seemed like a logical follow up to my post right before this one “How And Why?”. Where and when should we practice our photography? How about here and now? Take out whatever camera ya got and make a picture. The camera doesn’t matter. Use the camera on your phone if that’s what ya
As photographers there’s some stuff that we do. Focusing. Metering. Making an exposure. There’s more but this’ll do for now. The HOW we do these things is with our camera. The WHY we do these things is our intent of composition. Camera operation is how and composition is why. We all need to learn to
