| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | Photography takes an instant out of time, |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | altering life by holding it still. - Dorothea |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | Lange |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | |
| more you realize what can be photographed | "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | world about you, and trust to your own |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: |
| | "Does this subject move me to feel, think |
| A room hung with pictures is a room hung with | and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own |
| thoughts. - Sir Joshua Reynolds | personal statement of what I feel and want to |
| | convey - from the subject before me?" |
| | - Ansel Adams |
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| Photography is about finding out what can | I almost never set out to photograph a |
| happen in the frame. When you put four | landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a |
| edges around some facts, you change those | means of recording a mountain or an animal |
| facts. - Gary Winogrand | unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My |
| | first thought is always of light. - Galen |
| I think you have to have a real point of view | Rowell |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | One should really use the camera as though |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | - Dorothea Lange |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | |
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