| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | You've got to push yourself harder. You've got |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | to start looking for pictures nobody else could |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | take. You've got to take the tools you have and |
| something. It's difficult. So often color gets | probe deeper. - William Albert Allard |
| caught up in color, and it becomes merely | |
| decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| brilliantly to make visual statements combining | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| color and content; otherwise it is empty. | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| - Mary Ellen Mark | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
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| No place is boring, if you've had a good | Once photography enters your bloodstream, |
| night's sleep and have a pocket full of | it's like a disease. - Anon |
| unexposed film. - Robert Adams | |
| | Now to consult the rules of composition before |
| Sometimes you can tell a large story with a | making a picture is a little like consulting the |
| tiny subject. - Eliot Porter | law of gravitation before going for a walk. |
| | Such rules and laws are deduced from the |
| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | accomplished fact; they are the products of |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | reflection . . . - Edward Weston |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | |
| more you realize what can be photographed | |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | |
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