Photography Class Related Blog Posts
These blog posts are based on the classes that Sam D’Amico teaches. More importantly, they’re intended to serve as food for thought for photographers. With that in mind; Read ’em, digest ’em and then incorporate ’em into your photography studies and practice.
Because the posts are usually short, that means less time readin’ and more time makin’ photographs.
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In order to get familiar with what Sam does in terms of his photography and photography instruction, you can visit his website at samdamico.com.
If ya have any questions beyond the blog post you can email ‘im or give ‘im a call. You’ll find his contact information in the black navigation bar located at the top of every page of his website.
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
It Ain’t Interesting. Read More »
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
Creativity. We Got It Or We Don’t. Read More »
I use a camera. Study And Practice Photography With Sam
When Words Ain’t Enough… Read More »
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
Now We See It Now We Don’t Read More »
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
That for those of us in the Northern Hemisphere… That the days are getting longer? The shadows are getting shorter? The daylight is getting brighter? As the earth moves in relation to the sun the characteristics of the light that illuminate (and warm certain areas of) the earth change in relation to our position with
Have You Noticed?… Read More »
