| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | Now to consult the rules of composition before |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | making a picture is a little like consulting the |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | law of gravitation before going for a walk. |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | Such rules and laws are deduced from the |
| more you realize what can be photographed | accomplished fact; they are the products of |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | reflection . . . - Edward Weston |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | |
| | "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the |
| A great photograph is one that fully expresses | world about you, and trust to your own |
| what one feels, in the deepest sense, about | reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: |
| what is being photographed. - Ansel | "Does this subject move me to feel, think |
| Adams | 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 is about finding out what can | I almost never set out to photograph a |
| happen in the frame. When you put four | landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a |
| edges around some facts, you change those | means of recording a mountain or an animal |
| facts. - Gary Winogrand | unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My |
| | first thought is always of light. - Galen |
| You've got to push yourself harder. You've got | Rowell |
| to start looking for pictures nobody else could | |
| take. You've got to take the tools you have and | The camera makes everyone a tourist in other |
| probe deeper. - William Albert Allard | people's reality. - Susan Sontag |
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