| ...words and pictures can work together to | Once photography enters your bloodstream, |
| communicate more powerfully than either | it's like a disease. - Anon |
| alone. -William Albert Allard | |
| | Now to consult the rules of composition before |
| I think you have to have a real point of view | making a picture is a little like consulting the |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | law of gravitation before going for a walk. |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | Such rules and laws are deduced from the |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | accomplished fact; they are the products of |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | reflection . . . - Edward Weston |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | |
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| I almost never set out to photograph a | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| means of recording a mountain or an animal | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| first thought is always of light. - Galen | more you realize what can be photographed |
| Rowell | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | I think the best pictures are often on the edges |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | of any situation, I don't find photographing the |
| something. It's difficult. So often color gets | situation nearly as interesting as |
| caught up in color, and it becomes merely | photographing the edges. - William Albert |
| decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] | Allard |
| brilliantly to make visual statements combining | |
| color and content; otherwise it is empty. | |
| - Mary Ellen Mark | |
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