| Now to consult the rules of composition before | Keep it simple. - Alfred Eienstaedt |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | No place is boring, if you've had a good |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | night's sleep and have a pocket full of |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | unexposed film. - Robert Adams |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | |
| | A room hung with pictures is a room hung with |
| "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the | thoughts. - Sir Joshua Reynolds |
| world about you, and trust to your own | |
| reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: | Sometimes you can tell a large story with a |
| "Does this subject move me to feel, think | tiny subject. - Eliot Porter |
| 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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| Photography records the gamut of feelings | A mad, keen photographer needs to get out |
| written on the human face, the beauty of the | into the world and work and make mistakes. |
| earth and skies that man has inherited and the | - Sam Abell |
| wealth and confusion man has created. | |
| - Edward Steichen | My own eyes are no more than scouts on a |
| | preliminary search, for the camera's eye may |
| I think you have to have a real point of view | entirely change my idea. - Edward |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | Weston |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | The difficulty with color is to go beyond the |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | fact that it's color to have it be not just a |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | colorful picture but really be a picture about |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | something. It's difficult. So often color gets |
| | caught up in color, and it becomes merely |
| | decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] |
| | brilliantly to make visual statements combining |
| | color and content; otherwise it is empty. |
| | - Mary Ellen Mark |
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