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.
How Do We Know When We Need A New Camera? The Background Motivation For This Post. Today was the last meeting of an Introduction To Photography class. While reviewing the topics from the previous three meetings, a participant in the class mentioned that the class made them realize that they didn’t need a new […]
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What Is Fine Art? Fine Art, Fine Art Photographer and SEO I’ve got an issue with the terms “fine art photography” and “fine art photographer”. To be specific, I view those terms as an attempt to elevate the the work, or the worker, with words. In addition, I think that words are cheap
he In Photography Our Lens Is Like Our Eye Overview During the Introduction To Photography class, we talk about aperture. To be clear, the aperture is also known as f-stop. Furthermore, the aperture is an opening in the lens that we can make bigger or smaller. While we can talk about aperture controlling our
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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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Automation and Photography Did ya ever call a company and get stuck in their automated customer service, seven layers of hell, call routing loop? Don’t ya hate that? In general, I’m OK with automation. Because, when used wisely, automation can save us time and increase efficiency. And when considering that I’ve saved time
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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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Shutter Speed-Increments of Time Vs Increments of Space During the Introduction To Photography Class, we talk about shutter speed. Shutter speed is an element of composition that controls, among other visual characteristics, the tonality of our work. Shutter speed is an “amount of time” At times, during the class, photographers struggle with shutter speed in
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Digital Camera Sensors-What Is The Difference? A friend has been buggin’ me to help them in selecting a digital camera. Nope. I ain’t gonna do it and here’s why–>https://samdamico.com/frequently-asked-questions/#can-you-recommend-a-camera. Recently, she asked me about the difference in digital sensors. Specifically, she asked about the types of sensors; she started ramblin’ off terms like CCD, CMOS,
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