Homework Assignment No. 1: Rule of Thirds and ISO Settings The first homework assignment I give students is to take a series of photos in Program Mode to explore ISO settings and to use the Rule of Thirds. I also ask them to tell me the name of a photographer whose work they admire. Rule […]
Arden Fair, Delaware, 2019
Everything seemed to go right at the 112th Arden Fair — weather, crowds, vendors, musicians, artists, dancers, and wizards. This annual event benefits the Arden Club, which is the umbrella non-profit in Arden, Delaware for many gilds including Ardensingers, Shakespeare, Swim, Garden, Writing and Poetry, Folk Dance, Georgists, Library, Scholars, Dinner, and Concert Gilds, headquartered […]
Vermont, July, 2019
These are vacation photos of Vermont, though some aspire to art. My wife and I did day trips, first out of Ludlow in the southern portion of the state, and then out of Waterbury, to the north. We visited Ascutney State Park, Rockingham Meetinghouse, Bellows Falls, Calvin Coolidge Homestead, Billings Farm and Museum, Richard Egan […]
Photo Classes and Workshops, Delaware Art Museum
In the fall, winter, and spring, I teach introductory photo classes at the Delaware Art Museum. These 8-week-long classes happen on Tuesday evenings, 6:00 to 8:30 p.m., twenty hours of instruction in all, learning about camera mechanics such as shutter speed, aperture, and ISO settings, plus an emphasis on artistic composition. The next series begins […]
Arden, Delaware – Fire Hydrant Spray People
2012 thru 2019, Arden, Delaware — Every year, the Arden Community Recreation Association hosts its July 4th Games on the green in Arden, Delaware. The event ends with people cavorting in spray shot from a fire hydrant. I love how the gyrating people look when photographed. They are often just silhouettes, and there is a […]
Danny Schweers Photograph Collection at Austin History Center
In June, 2019, the Austin History Center offered to accept my photographs of Austin, Texas into its archives and call it the Danny Schweers Photograph Collection. I lived in Austin from 1970 thru 2000, and have many thousands of negatives and hundreds of silver gelatin prints from those three decades. Some of them are worth […]
Photography Print Festival, June 7-21, 2019.
Five Prints by Danny N. Schweers, Photography Print Festival, June 7-21, 2019, Chris White Gallery, 701 N. Shipley Street, Wilmington, DE 19801. Opening Reception: Friday, June 7, 2019, 5:30 to 8:00 p.m. Closing Reception: Friday, June 21, 2019, 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. Galley Hours: Mondays (June 10 & 17) and Wednesdays (June 12 & 19), […]
Explore Light Painting
In-Class Exercise No. 6: Light Painting Having learned to shoot in Manual Mode (M) in my digital photography course at the Delaware Art Museum, we darken the room and use flashlights to paint light onto our subjects. Cameras are on tripods for these exposures, which are often 20 seconds long. When done correctly, objects seem […]
Explore Your Camera’s Manual Mode
Homework Assignment No. 5 — Manual Mode. The fifth homework assignment I give students in my digital photography class at the Delaware Art Museum is to explore shooting in Manual Mode. Why Manual Mode? Many, perhaps most, professional photographers shoot in Manual Mode. While cameras in automatic and semi-automatic modes get better all the time, […]
Explore Your Camera’s Aperture Settings
Homework Assignment No. 4: Aperture, Out-of-Focus Backgrounds The fourth homework assignment I give students in my digital photography class at the Delaware Art Museum is to separate subject from background by using small aperture numbers; that is, apertures with little depth of field. The subject is in focus while the background is out of focus, […]