Drawing Inspiration – Donna Ferrato Drawing Inspiration is a series of posts dedicated to photographers who have inspired me. If possible, I’ve included a quote and a link to their work.
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Somewhere near the beginning of most, if not all, of my photography classes I ask the participants a question. “What’s a photograph”. Some of the answers I get, and I’m paraphrasing here, are; “A moment caught in time”, “a memory”, “the capturing of a subject”, et cetera. While a photograph can be thought of as
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Drawing Inspiration – Diane Arbus Drawing Inspiration is a series of posts dedicated to photographers who have inspired me. If possible, I’ve included a quote and a link to their work. I work from awkwardness. By that I mean I don’t like to arrange things. If I stand in front of something, instead of arranging it,
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When we make a photograph we are responsible for the photograph the we create. The outcome of the photograph is a result of our ability to respond (response-ability) to what we see (light) during our process of creating the photograph. When we see something to photograph we respond by taking out our camera and continue
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Better Camera, Better Photographs? Maybe and maybe not! Does a Better Camera Mean It’s Really Better? Remember, a camera is a tool that we use to record light. Nothing more. Nothing Less. Some of us might think that a better camera is… easy to carry and that we always have with us.
As photographers we are experiencing what we photograph while we are creating a photograph. We experience what we photograph with all of our senses and usually we experience thoughts and feelings about what we are experiencing. Depending on the intent of our photography, we can make photographs of things as they are, or we can
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Consider the weather if your camera malfunctions. Check the “specifications” part of the owners manual for your camera for information about the range of temperatures and the humidity that your camera can be operated in. Study And Practice Photography With Sam.
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Think Twice. Some contests take a substantial part, if not all, of the copyright to your work. This is good for the folks running the contest, bad for photographers who submit their work. There’s a group called Pro-Imaging that is helping educate photographers about how entering these rights-grabbing contests negatively impact not only the photographers
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In short, an adaptive photographer is a highly-skilled generalist with a solid understanding of light. The longer explanation is a more interesting read. Keep scrollin’. What’s an Adaptive Photographer? There’s a lot of adaptive photographers out there. Some are professional, and some are amateur. But what they have in common is a solid understanding
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Drawing Inspiration – Manuel Alvarez Bravo Drawing Inspiration is a series of posts dedicated to photographers who have inspired me. If possible, I’ve included a quote and a link to their work.
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