| Pictures you have taken have an influence on | A great photograph is one that fully expresses |
| those that you are going to make. | what one feels, in the deepest sense, about |
| That's life! - John Sexton | what is being photographed. - Ansel |
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| I think you have to have a real point of view | |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | A room hung with pictures is a room hung with |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | thoughts. - Sir Joshua Reynolds |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | A picture is the expression of an impression. If |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | the beautiful were not in us, how would we |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas |
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| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | There is nothing worse than a sharp image of |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | a fuzzy concept. - Ansel Adams |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | |
| something. It's difficult. So often color gets | "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the |
| caught up in color, and it becomes merely | world about you, and trust to your own |
| decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] | reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: |
| brilliantly to make visual statements combining | "Does this subject move me to feel, think |
| color and content; otherwise it is empty. | and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own |
| - Mary Ellen Mark | personal statement of what I feel and want to |
| | convey - from the subject before me?" |
| | - Ansel Adams |
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