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 […]
Best of Peak District Photos by Danny N. Schweers, 2018
Here are the best of the photos I took in Peak District National Park in England in April, 2018. To see more images, go to the individual links on the Places page of this website. Click on any thumbnail image to see it larger in a slide show. To return here, click on the “x” […]
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, […]
Explore Focal Lengths of Lenses!
Homework Assignment No. 3: Focal Lengths of Lenses, Pay Attention to Backgrounds. In my third class, we look at the focal lengths of lenses. Some have fixed focal lengths. Other lenses have variable focal lengths and are called zoom lenses because you can zoom in and zoom out: zoom in to photograph a narrow area, […]