| A great photograph is one that fully expresses | "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the |
| what one feels, in the deepest sense, about | world about you, and trust to your own |
| what is being photographed. - Ansel | reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: |
| Adams | "Does this subject move me to feel, think |
| | and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own |
| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | personal statement of what I feel and want to |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | convey - from the subject before me?" |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | - Ansel Adams |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | |
| more you realize what can be photographed | There is nothing worse than a sharp image of |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | a fuzzy concept. - Ansel Adams |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | |
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| ...words and pictures can work together to | The difficulty with color is to go beyond the |
| communicate more powerfully than either | fact that it's color to have it be not just a |
| alone. -William Albert Allard | colorful picture but really be a picture about |
| | something. It's difficult. So often color gets |
| Photography is a major force in explaining | caught up in color, and it becomes merely |
| man to man. - Edward Steichen | decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] |
| | brilliantly to make visual statements combining |
| Photography is about finding out what can | color and content; otherwise it is empty. |
| happen in the frame. When you put four | - Mary Ellen Mark |
| edges around some facts, you change those | |
| facts. - Gary Winogrand | |
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