| A great photograph is one that fully expresses | The difficulty with color is to go beyond the |
| what one feels, in the deepest sense, about | fact that it's color to have it be not just a |
| what is being photographed. - Ansel | colorful picture but really be a picture about |
| Adams | something. It's difficult. So often color gets |
| | caught up in color, and it becomes merely |
| A picture is the expression of an impression. If | decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] |
| the beautiful were not in us, how would we | brilliantly to make visual statements combining |
| ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas | color and content; otherwise it is empty. |
| | - Mary Ellen Mark |
| Sometimes you can tell a large story with a | |
| tiny subject. - Eliot Porter | |
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| I think you have to have a real point of view | It is not the language of painters but the |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | language of nature which one should listen to. |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | reality, is more important than the feeling for |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | Now to consult the rules of composition before |
| | making a picture is a little like consulting the |
| You've got to push yourself harder. You've got | law of gravitation before going for a walk. |
| to start looking for pictures nobody else could | Such rules and laws are deduced from the |
| take. You've got to take the tools you have and | accomplished fact; they are the products of |
| probe deeper. - William Albert Allard | reflection . . . - Edward Weston |
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