| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | The difficulty with color is to go beyond the |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | fact that it's color to have it be not just a |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | colorful picture but really be a picture about |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | something. It's difficult. So often color gets |
| more you realize what can be photographed | caught up in color, and it becomes merely |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | brilliantly to make visual statements combining |
| | color and content; otherwise it is empty. |
| I think the best pictures are often on the edges | - Mary Ellen Mark |
| of any situation, I don't find photographing the | |
| situation nearly as interesting as | |
| photographing the edges. - William Albert | |
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| Now to consult the rules of composition before | Pictures you have taken have an influence on |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | those that you are going to make. |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | That's life! - John Sexton |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | Memory is very important, the memory of |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | each photo taken, flowing at the same speed |
| | as the event. During the work, you have to be |
| There is nothing worse than a sharp image of | sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've |
| a fuzzy concept. - Ansel Adams | captured everything, because afterwards it will |
| | be too late. - Henri Cartier Bresson |
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