| A mad, keen photographer needs to get out | "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the |
| into the world and work and make mistakes. | world about you, and trust to your own |
| - Sam Abell | reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: |
| | "Does this subject move me to feel, think |
| My own eyes are no more than scouts on a | and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own |
| preliminary search, for the camera's eye may | personal statement of what I feel and want to |
| entirely change my idea. - Edward | convey - from the subject before me?" |
| Weston | - Ansel Adams |
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| The virtue of the camera is not the power it | Now to consult the rules of composition before |
| has to transform the photographer into an | making a picture is a little like consulting the |
| artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on | law of gravitation before going for a walk. |
| looking. - Brooks Anderson | Such rules and laws are deduced from the |
| | accomplished fact; they are the products of |
| | reflection . . . - Edward Weston |
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| Pictures you have taken have an influence on | A room hung with pictures is a room hung with |
| those that you are going to make. | thoughts. - Sir Joshua Reynolds |
| That's life! - John Sexton | |
| | A great photograph is one that fully expresses |
| I think you have to have a real point of view | what one feels, in the deepest sense, about |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | what is being photographed. - Ansel |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | Adams |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | I think the best pictures are often on the edges |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | of any situation, I don't find photographing the |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | situation nearly as interesting as |
| | photographing the edges. - William Albert |
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