| Now to consult the rules of composition before | The difficulty with color is to go beyond the |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | fact that it's color to have it be not just a |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | colorful picture but really be a picture about |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | something. It's difficult. So often color gets |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | caught up in color, and it becomes merely |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] |
| | brilliantly to make visual statements combining |
| "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the | color and content; otherwise it is empty. |
| world about you, and trust to your own | - Mary Ellen Mark |
| 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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| I think you have to have a real point of view | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | more you realize what can be photographed |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
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| Photography records the gamut of feelings | Keep it simple. - Alfred Eienstaedt |
| written on the human face, the beauty of the | |
| earth and skies that man has inherited and the | |
| wealth and confusion man has created. | |
| - Edward Steichen | |
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