In the fall, winter, and spring, I teach intro photo classes at the Delaware Art Museum. These 8-week-long classes happen on Tuesday evenings, 6:00 to 8:30 p.m., 20 hours of instruction in all. The next series begins September 10, 2019. I will also teaching one-evening demonstrations on how to use Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop software […]
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, […]
It is Good to be Recognized
Bill Moore of New Castle Presbytery in Wilmington, Delaware wrote the following on the day of Barnard Kabibu’s death, 10/18/2018: “We in New Castle Presbytery visited with Barnard Kabibu [in the Democratic Republic of the Congo] in 2008 to deliver some medicines, and provided him with a Photopriere for IMCK/Good Shepherd hospital. Bernard was most […]
Panorama Photos
Every day, Delaware’s News Journal newspaper publishes a panorama photo at the top its local news section. I occasionally submit, and they occasionally publish, my images. Photographers should be paid for their work but I don’t mind giving these images to the News Journal to use, especially since the paper has been so generous in […]
Explore Your Camera’s Shutter Speeds
Homework Assignment No. 2: Shutter Speeds, Diagonals to Corners My second homework assignment is to send me 2-5 photos in Shutter Priority Mode (“Tv” on Canon and Ricoh cameras, and “S” on Nikon and Sony cameras) and to include a line to a corner. Vary Shutter Speed Motion blur is controlled by changing the time […]