| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | A room hung with pictures is a room hung with |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | thoughts. - Sir Joshua Reynolds |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | |
| something. It's difficult. So often color gets | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| caught up in color, and it becomes merely | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| brilliantly to make visual statements combining | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| color and content; otherwise it is empty. | more you realize what can be photographed |
| - Mary Ellen Mark | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
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| Photography records the gamut of feelings | Now to consult the rules of composition before |
| written on the human face, the beauty of the | making a picture is a little like consulting the |
| earth and skies that man has inherited and the | law of gravitation before going for a walk. |
| wealth and confusion man has created. | Such rules and laws are deduced from the |
| - Edward Steichen | accomplished fact; they are the products of |
| | reflection . . . - Edward Weston |
| Photography is about finding out what can | |
| happen in the frame. When you put four | "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the |
| edges around some facts, you change those | world about you, and trust to your own |
| facts. - Gary Winogrand | reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: |
| | "Does this subject move me to feel, think |
| | and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own |
| | personal statement of what I feel and want to |
| | convey - from the subject before me?" |
| | - Ansel Adams |
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