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As an amateur you have an advantage over photographers - you can do as you wish... This should make amateurs the happiest of photographers.Collection: Photography
Any good photograph is a successful synthesis of technique and art.Collection: Photography
No one can do inspired work without genuine interest in his subject and understanding of its characteristics.Collection: Photography
Photographers - idiots, of which there are so many - say, "Oh, if only I had a Nikon or a Leica, I could make great photographs." That's the dumbest thing I ever heard in my life. It's nothing but a matter of seeing, and thinking, and interest.Collection: Photography
Before you shoot an irresistible subject, mute all your senses except sight to find out how much is left for the camera to record.Collection: Photography
Light is the photographic medium par excellence; it is to the photographer what words are to the writer; color and paint to the painter; wood, metal, stone, or clay to the sculptor.Collection: Photography
Know - how is worthless unless guided by know - why and know - when.Collection: Photography
The difference in 'seeing' between the eye and the lens should make it obvious that a photographer who merely points his camera at an appealing subject and expects to get an appealing picture in return, may be headed for a disappointment.Collection: Photography
Every successful photograph, except for lucky shots, begins with an idea and a plan. The more precisely a photographer knows what it is he wishes to do, the better the chances are that he will do it.Collection: Photography
What matters is not what you photograph, but why and how you photograph it. Even the most controversial subject, if depicted by a sensitive photographer with honesty, sympathy, and understanding, can be transformed into an emotionally rewarding experience.Collection: Photography
The first impression of a new subject is not necessary the best. Seen from a different angle or under different condition it might look even better. Always study a three - dimensional subject with one eye closed.Collection: Photography
Realism and superrealism are what I'm after. This world is full of things the eye doesn't see. The camera can see more, and often 10 times better.Collection: Photography
Don't look for "depth" but instead search for subject aspects which prove the presence of depth.Collection: Photography
Once a photographer is convinced that the camera can lie and that, strictly speaking, the vast majority of photographs are camera lies, inasmuch as they tell only part of a story or tell it in distorted form, half the battle is won. Once he has conceded that photography is not a naturalistic medium of rendition and that striving for naturalism in a photograph is futile, he can turn his attention to using a camera to make more effective pictures.Collection: Photography
Two factors thus emerge as requisites of success in the field of creative photography. First, the subject must be photogenic. Second, its re-creation in a photograph must be based upon technical knowledge, guided and supported by artsitic inspiration.Collection: Photography
Human vision is untrustworthy, subjective and selective. Camera vision is total and non - objective.Collection: Photography
Experience has shown that the more fascinating the subject, the less observant the photographer.Collection: Photography
With a short lens I can reveal the hidden things near at hand, with a long lens the hidden things far away. The telephoto lens provides a new visual sensation for people: it widens their horizons. And, conversely, the things under our nose invariably look good when blown up really big.Collection: Photography
And yet, in a superficial sense, it is true that the camera does not "lie": given a chance, it will faithfully render everything within the field of view of the lens and show it precisely as it is.Collection: Photography
The camera can push the new medium to its limits - and beyond. It is there - in the "beyond" - that the imaginative photographer will compete with the imaginative painter. Painting must return to the natural world from time to time for renewal of the artistic vision. The key sector of renewal of vision today is the new vistas revealed by science. Here photography, which is not only art but science also, stands on the firmest ground.Collection: Photography
Once digital came, I could see my images instantly right there on the camera. I think that makes you a better photographer because you can see right there if your subject's eyes are closed or if you exposed it wrong and if it's too bright or dark. You can fix it right here. With film, you wouldn't know until you got the prints back if something was messed up, and then there was nothing you could do. That was a huge advantage.Collection: Photography
As far as digital technology has come, there's still one thing that digital cameras won't do: give you perfect color every time. In fact, if they gave us perfect color 50% of the time, that would be incredible, but unfortunately every digital camera (and every scanner that captures traditional photos) sneaks in some kind of color cast in your image. Generally, it's a red cast, but depending on the camera, it could be blue. Either way, you can be pretty sure-there's a cast.Collection: Photography
... we are there with our cameras to record reality. Once we start modifying that which exists, we are robbing photography of its most valuable attribute.Collection: Photography
Even if not a single picture is never published, they exist. And that means that we are recording the history of the human race. If that's all your doing, it still a very very worth while profession to be involved in.Collection: Photography
[Photojournalism] really is the only branch of photography that's a credit to our profession. We see, we understand; we see more, we understand more.Collection: Photography
Real photography is a wonderfully inclusive, democratic medium, whereas art photography is more often a private pursuit by conmen.Collection: Photography
The first picture of his I ever saw was during a lecture at the Rhyl camera club. I was 16 and the speaker was Emrys Jones. He projected the picture upside down. Deliberately, to disregard the subject matter to reveal the composition. It's a lesson I've never forgotten.Collection: Photography
I realized I didn't want to be a photographer. I gave it up, but I still worked that job in the restaurant and I found myself constantly hanging out in the kitchen.Collection: Photography
There's no such thing as a bad photograph.Collection: Photography
Probably one of the worst things that happened to photography is that cameras have viewfinders.Collection: Photography
...throughout the history of art it has been art itself - in all its forms - that has inspired art...today's photographs are so geared to life that one can learn more from them than from life itself.Collection: Photography
As the possibilities for straightforward photography seem to have become exhausted it has been the photographers who know about the history of art, not simply the history of photography, who have shaped important directions for the future.Collection: Photography
Ultimately photography is about who you are. It's the truth in relation to yourself. And seeking truth becomes a habit.Collection: Photography
Photography is like life What does it all mean? I don't know - but you get an impression, a feeling. An impression of walking through the street, walking through the park, walking through life. I'm very suspicious of people who say they know what it means.Collection: Photography
Photographing is an emotional thing, a graceful thing. Photography allows me to wander with a purpose.Collection: Photography
When I photograph, I am always relating things to one another. Photography shows the connection between things, how they relate.Collection: Photography
Photography is the recording of strangeness and beauty with beguiling precision.Collection: Photography
Still, there is a basic reticence about his approach that feels refreshing in today's culture of maximum exposure. Brandt did not go to great lengths to turn people into icons, nor did he presume to show their “true nature” in something so transient as a photograph. Instead, he used photography's special qualities to suggest intimate things about his subjects, things that cannot be put into words, and may not even be possible to put into pictures.Collection: Photography
For me photography was the means to the end, but they made it the most important thing. (On the discovery of X-ray photography.)Collection: Photography
Out in the field I try not to hold expectations. I try to achieve an openness. The senses heighten so that I am totally immersed in what's happening at the moment. I want to be receptive to an image coming together.Collection: Photography
Any photographer worth his/her salt - that is, any photographer of professional caliber, in control of the craft, regardless of imagistic bent - can make virtually anything look good. Which means, of course, that she or he can make virtually anything look bad - or look just about any way at all. After all, that is the real work of photography: making things look, deciding how a thing is to appear in the image.Collection: Photography
Photographs are of course about their makers, and are to be read for what they disclose in that regard no less than for what they reveal of the world as their makers comprehend, invent, and describe it.Collection: Photography
... the battle for the acceptance of photography as Art was not only counter-productive but counter-revolutionary. The most important photography is most emphatically not Art.Collection: Photography
Not only do we end up with a vivid, surprising and soulful sense of one artist and his work, but Leigh also offers us a commanding view of a city, London, and country at the dawn of the modern age and of a man being overawed and overtaken by new technologies such as photography and the railways. As ever with Leigh, 'Mr Turner' addresses the big questions with small moments. It's an extraordinary film, all at once strange, entertaining, thoughtful and exciting.Collection: Photography
The function of the photographer is to help people understand the world around them.Collection: Photography
Aesthetics does not exist for the camera as an isolated entity. Aesthetics, in fact, is inseparable from the purpose of the photographer and the use he makes of his theme. When photography fails... it is usually because a false separation has been imposed on form and content.Collection: Photography
A photograph is not merely a substitute for a glance. It is a sharpened vision. It is the revelation of new and important facts.Collection: Photography
A landscape image cuts across all political and national boundaries, it transcends the constraints of language and culture.Collection: Photography