| A mad, keen photographer needs to get out | Photography is a major force in explaining |
| into the world and work and make mistakes. | man to man. - Edward Steichen |
| - Sam Abell | |
| | Pictures you have taken have an influence on |
| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | those that you are going to make. |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | That's life! - John Sexton |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | |
| something. It's difficult. So often color gets | ...words and pictures can work together to |
| caught up in color, and it becomes merely | communicate more powerfully than either |
| decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] | alone. -William Albert Allard |
| brilliantly to make visual statements combining | |
| color and content; otherwise it is empty. | |
| - Mary Ellen Mark | |
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| Now to consult the rules of composition before | A great photograph is one that fully expresses |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | what one feels, in the deepest sense, about |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | what is being photographed. - Ansel |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | Adams |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a |
| | matter of noticing things and organizing them. |
| It is not the language of painters but the | You just have to care about what's around you |
| language of nature which one should listen to. | and have a concern with humanity and the |
| . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for | human comedy. - Elliott Erwitt |
| reality, is more important than the feeling for | |
| pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh | |
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