| I think you have to have a real point of view | There is nothing worse than a sharp image of |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | a fuzzy concept. - Ansel Adams |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | world about you, and trust to your own |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | "Does this subject move me to feel, think |
| | and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own |
| Photography is a major force in explaining | personal statement of what I feel and want to |
| man to man. - Edward Steichen | convey - from the subject before me?" |
| | - Ansel Adams |
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| A great photograph is one that fully expresses | My own eyes are no more than scouts on a |
| what one feels, in the deepest sense, about | preliminary search, for the camera's eye may |
| what is being photographed. - Ansel | entirely change my idea. - Edward |
| Adams | Weston |
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| A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. | The difficulty with color is to go beyond the |
| - Vincent Van Gogh | fact that it's color to have it be not just a |
| | colorful picture but really be a picture about |
| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | something. It's difficult. So often color gets |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | caught up in color, and it becomes merely |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | brilliantly to make visual statements combining |
| more you realize what can be photographed | color and content; otherwise it is empty. |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | - Mary Ellen Mark |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | |
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