| A great photograph is one that fully expresses | Once photography enters your bloodstream, |
| what one feels, in the deepest sense, about | it's like a disease. - Anon |
| what is being photographed. - Ansel | |
| Adams | Now to consult the rules of composition before |
| | making a picture is a little like consulting the |
| You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a | law of gravitation before going for a walk. |
| matter of noticing things and organizing them. | Such rules and laws are deduced from the |
| You just have to care about what's around you | accomplished fact; they are the products of |
| and have a concern with humanity and the | reflection . . . - Edward Weston |
| human comedy. - Elliott Erwitt | |
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| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| something. It's difficult. So often color gets | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| caught up in color, and it becomes merely | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| brilliantly to make visual statements combining | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
| color and content; otherwise it is empty. | |
| - Mary Ellen Mark | You've got to push yourself harder. You've got |
| | to start looking for pictures nobody else could |
| | take. You've got to take the tools you have and |
| | probe deeper. - William Albert Allard |
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