| Pictures you have taken have an influence on | The difficulty with color is to go beyond the |
| those that you are going to make. | fact that it's color to have it be not just a |
| That's life! - John Sexton | colorful picture but really be a picture about |
| | something. It's difficult. So often color gets |
| Photography is about finding out what can | caught up in color, and it becomes merely |
| happen in the frame. When you put four | decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] |
| edges around some facts, you change those | brilliantly to make visual statements combining |
| facts. - Gary Winogrand | color and content; otherwise it is empty. |
| | - Mary Ellen Mark |
| Memory is very important, the memory of | |
| each photo taken, flowing at the same speed | |
| as the event. During the work, you have to be | |
| sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've | |
| captured everything, because afterwards it will | |
| be too late. - Henri Cartier Bresson | |
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| 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 | |
| | Once photography enters your bloodstream, |
| Keep it simple. - Alfred Eienstaedt | it's like a disease. - Anon |
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