| Now to consult the rules of composition before | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | more you realize what can be photographed |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
| "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the | |
| world about you, and trust to your own | Keep it simple. - Alfred Eienstaedt |
| 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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| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | You've got to push yourself harder. You've got |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | to start looking for pictures nobody else could |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | take. You've got to take the tools you have and |
| something. It's difficult. So often color gets | probe deeper. - William Albert Allard |
| caught up in color, and it becomes merely | |
| decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] | Photography is about finding out what can |
| brilliantly to make visual statements combining | happen in the frame. When you put four |
| color and content; otherwise it is empty. | edges around some facts, you change those |
| - Mary Ellen Mark | facts. - Gary Winogrand |
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