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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Is Working Our DSLR In An Automatic Exposure Mode Cheating? – A blog post based on conversations with participants during my photography classes. Cheating who? The people who view our pictures probably don’t care what the exposure mode on our camera was when we made the picture. Here’s some of my pictures. Do you […]
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Camera Lenses – A blog post based on conversations with participants during my photography classes. Some lenses are attached permanently to a camera. Some lenses are separate pieces of equipment that the photographer attaches to a camera body. Lenses provide exposure (aperture/f-stop), focal length (angle of view, expressed in mm) and perspective to our
A blog post based on conversations with participants during my photography classes. No Means No, UNLESS….. ….you say yes to those who can then say yes to those you said no to. If we’re gonna control how our work is used (and whether we get paid for the use of it) we’ve gotta be clear
Copyright-No Means No, UNLESS….. Read More »
Additionally, What’s the use of histograms? There is a use, but I don’t find it helpful. What’s a Histogram? If I had to guess what was one of the most asked questions about what we see on the back of our cameras when we look at the information display of a created picture has
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I think there are important differences between photo editing and photo manipulation. Photo Editing Editing photographs is a selection process during our workflow. As photographers, I think we edit our photographs constantly, and our editing process starts before we reach for our cameras. For example, because cameras are incorporated into our phones, we
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When we think of photographs as good, bad, or interesting, we create halting limitations or sow the seeds of ongoing creativity. Thinking of Photographs As Good or Bad, Instead of Seeing Them As Interesting Photographs, Kills Our Creativity A photograph is a photograph. It’s nothing more or less than a recording of
How do you stop getting copyright flagged? It’s simple. STOP USING WORK THAT’S NOT YOURS TO USE. . If ya wanna use someones work, get their WRITTEN permission. Study And Practice Photography With Sam
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He mentioned the right reasons for purchasing an external flash unit, which I think are more power and more versatility than the pop-up units on the camera can deliver.
Flash And A Thunderstorm Read More »
Not everyone is gonna find our photography interesting. There are some people out there that will find our pictures interesting. That’s the icing on the cake. What’s the cake? Our photographs. We gotta produce work that WE find interesting and like. We gotta like and appreciate our own work. If we don’t like and appreciate
Our Photographs Ain’t For Everyone Read More »
Hardware and Software Used In Photography-What’s Most Important When it Comes to the Hardware and Software Used In Photography?
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