If I were to give you a prescription to improve your photography, and for you to improve as a photographer, here’s what it would be:

To make better pictures and to be a better photographer take at least one picture a day in fully manual exposure mode.
Take the recommended dose  at varying times of the day, in different locations and [...]

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Expression is letting your thoughts or feelings be known.
Most of us use words to do this. As a photographer you’ve chosen to use a photograph.
Unless you’re working as a photojournalist, you can use your camera as a means of expression. Instead of words, you can let your thoughts, feelings and emotions be known by making a [...]

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Do you spend your time making a photograph or editing files?
You make a photograph with your camera, you edit files with your computer.
Some photographers get the photograph completed in the camera.
Some photographers rely on photo editing software to complete their pictures.
Photographers that get the photograph completed in the camera rely on their understanding of photography to create their final [...]

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Photography is probably the easiest medium in which anyone can be competent.
Anyone can be a marginally capable photographer and produce a decent photograph.
The hard part of photography is developing a personal vision that is idiosyncratic.
The hard part of photography is separating yourself visually from the rest of the photographers who are making decent photographs.
Your photography has to become more than decent and has [...]

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Your work as a photographer really begins when your preoccupation with the camera ends and your observation and study of light is your primary interest.
Intermediate Photography

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Drawing Inspiration – Jay Maisel
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.
If the light is great in front of you, you should turn around and see what it is doing behind you. – Jay Maisel
http://www.jaymaisel.com/
Who are the photographers [...]

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Visitors gather near the Eternal Flame, which marks the grave-site of John F. Kennedy, JFK. Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia. (Sam D’Amico)
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DC Photo Classes – Lighting With Portable Flash Starting March 4, 2015
You’ll learn….

How to get the “proper exposure” with your flash…
How to control the brightness of your flash…
How to mix flash with available light…
About the relationship between your aperture (f-stop), shutter speed, ISO and flash…
How to use flash to control contrast…
How to see your flash [...]

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DC Photography Class – Intermediate Photography classes starting – March 1, 2015.

Reinforce your basic photography skills and techniques…
Learn new skills and techniques…
Understand and observe light…
Be more precise in the creation of your photograph…
Have the process of creating a photograph become more second nature…
Learn about basic flash photography…
Learn the basics of color photography…
Create thoughtfully composed photographs [...]

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DC Photography Class – Intermediate Photography classes starting – March 1, 2015.

Reinforce your basic photography skills and techniques…
Learn new skills and techniques…
Understand and observe light…
Be more precise in the creation of your photograph…
Have the process of creating a photograph become more second nature…
Learn about basic flash photography…
Learn the basics of color photography…
Create thoughtfully composed photographs [...]

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Washington DC Photography Classes – March 1 – March 29, 2015
Upcoming Photography Classes In Washington DC. You can see a list of all upcoming courses in the right hand side bar of the Sam D’Amico Photography website. Scroll down a bit to view the list.
 

March 1, 2015:

Intermediate Photography (10:00 am)

March 3, 2015:

Getting To Know Your [...]

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Introduction to Photography classes starting – March 5 and March 7, 2015
Learn to work your camera.

Learn basic photography.
Learn to make better photographs.

Introduction to Photography classes starts monthly.
Register now to reserve your place in the class.
By working your camera in fully manual mode throughout the class, you will become thoroughly familiar with basic camera operation and [...]

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