| 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. |
| There is nothing worse than a sharp image of | You just have to care about what's around you |
| a fuzzy concept. - Ansel Adams | and have a concern with humanity and the |
| | human comedy. - Elliott Erwitt |
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| I think you have to have a real point of view | The camera makes everyone a tourist in other |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | people's reality. - Susan Sontag |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | I almost never set out to photograph a |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | means of recording a mountain or an animal |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My |
| | first thought is always of light. - Galen |
| Photography is about finding out what can | Rowell |
| happen in the frame. When you put four | |
| edges around some facts, you change those | |
| facts. - Gary Winogrand | |
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