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Sam D’Amico offers excellent photography classes in-person in Washington DC, and online.
Sam offers in-person group classes and private lessons in Washington, DC, and if you’d prefer to learn remotely private online lessons. However you’d like to study and practice photography with Sam, he’ll help you be a better photographer.
In short, Sam will work with you whether you are a beginner or a more experienced photographer. And to ensure that you get the course of photography instruction that helps you the most, Sam will take the time to learn what you’d like to improve and your current understanding of photography.
From the camera on the phone to a DSLR and almost anything in between, during Sam’s photography classes, you’ll learn to use your camera thoughtfully and deliberately, so you’ll become a photographer who relies more on your mind than a machine to make a picture.
Hello, I’m Sam D’Amico. Thanks for your interest in my photography classes.
I’ve been a professional photographer since the mid-1980s and a professional photography teacher since 1998. My photography classes were voted Best Art Class by the readers of The Washington City Paper in 2018 and 2022.
My approach to teaching photography involves a learning-by-doing process. You’ll learn terminology, camera operation, light, and composition. And to pull it all together, you’ll get hands-on training to work your camera to create the best compositions possible.
Call 202-531-2344 or email sam@samdamico.com, and I’ll do my best to help you be a better photographer.
To make sure that the instruction they’ll get will serve them best, I always like to get an idea of someone’s level of photography understanding in terms of camera operation, composition, and light before they study and practice photography with me. There was a quiz on this page at one time, but it was malfunctioning […]
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To ensure that their instruction will serve them best, I always like to get an idea of someone’s level of understanding in terms of the flash they’ll use and how familiar they are with using it. There was a quiz on this page at one time, but it was malfunctioning and not playing well
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To make sure that the instruction they’ll get will serve them best, I always like to get an idea of someone’s level of photography understanding in terms of camera operation, composition, and light before they study and practice photography with me. The Equivalent-Equal Tonalities Test is a test I give to photographers who are interested
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Through weekly assignments and critiques you will learn to work your SLR camera, become familiar with the technical aspects of photography and create photographs based on your desired compositional outcomes. Once you begin to make compositional choices with the visual effects in mind, your pictures will begin to move beyond the result of luck and you will begin to compose pictures that more accurately represent your desired outcome.
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Your opinion and candid comments are valued because they help me to make sure that our time together was spent as effectively as possible.
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Upcoming Group Photography Classes COVID-19 NOTICE Due to COVID-19, all face-to-face, group photography classes in Washington DC have been canceled. Please be safe and take care and give care. Available Ways to Learn With Sam —Outdoor, or online one on one private instruction. If we’re meeting in person please be fully vaccinated
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By having a better understanding of how to use your camera, you’ll begin to rely more on your mind, instead of a machine, to make a photograph.
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Your opinion and candid comments are valued because they help me to make sure the class is as effective as possible.
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