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.
In addition, after reading the posts, if ya have any questions or something to say, use the “Comment” field in the “Leave a Reply” area at the end of each post.
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.
If Our Pictures Are Good Enough To Use Then they’re good enough to pay for. The Way Photographers Make Money As professional photographers, we should be in this business to make money. Specifically, we’re paid for our time, expenses, and a fee for using our work (usage fee). In other words, if our pictures […]
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ISO Is Like A Hearing Aid The material we use to record light can be compared to whatever part of our ear hear sounds. Similarly, ISO can be compared to a hearing aid. Sound And Our Ears Our ears hear sound. And when it comes to sound, If our ear can’t hear sound perceived
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Critiquing Our Photographs By Using The Word Crisp The Trouble With Words. When we critique our work we use words, however we may use a different word than someone else when talking about the same thing. What does the word crisp mean when it comes to photography? Better still, what is it that were observing
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When I write blog posts I try to keep SEO in mind so people and search engines can find my photographs and other content on the web. In order to do that I try to use words relevant to an article or photograph The lesson this morning came in the form of a title for my post.
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Not only have the reporters lost their credibility, but they news organizations that these reporters appear on have lost credibility too.
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It’s going to happen.
It’s not a matter of if, it’s a matter of when.
Your computer, and any other hard drive or storage media that you use is going to fail. Yup, it’s going to happen.
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To me, In photography, light and lighting are different. While creating photographs is what we do as photographers, light, and lighting are things to consider when we are doing our photography. Many photographers tell me that they want to learn about “lighting.” When I ask them what they mean by lighting, it winds up that
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Learn To Work With A Camera – A blog post based on conversations with photographers. Learn To Work With A Camera If were gonna be photographers we gotta learn to work with a camera because a camera is what we usually use to make a picture. On one hand, cameras ALL do the
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Knowing Photography And Knowing How To Work Our Camera – A blog post based on conversations with photographers. A Few Words About Manual Exposure Mode When I work with photographers in my Introduction To Photography class we work in manual exposure mode throughout the class. I always think of working in manual exposure mode as
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Manual Exposure Mode Why Don’t We Do It? – A blog post based on conversations with photographers. What Is Manual Exposure Mode? Manual exposure is an exposure mode setting on our on cameras. This exposure mode allows us to have the most choice when it comes to the composition of our photograph. Furthermore, it allows
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