| 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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| Photography is about finding out what can | |
| happen in the frame. When you put four | I think the best pictures are often on the edges |
| edges around some facts, you change those | of any situation, I don't find photographing the |
| facts. - Gary Winogrand | situation nearly as interesting as |
| | photographing the edges. - William Albert |
| ...words and pictures can work together to | Allard |
| communicate more powerfully than either | |
| alone. -William Albert Allard | |
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| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | world about you, and trust to your own |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: |
| something. It's difficult. So often color gets | "Does this subject move me to feel, think |
| caught up in color, and it becomes merely | and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own |
| decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] | personal statement of what I feel and want to |
| brilliantly to make visual statements combining | convey - from the subject before me?" |
| color and content; otherwise it is empty. | - Ansel Adams |
| - Mary Ellen Mark | |
| | Now to consult the rules of composition before |
| | making a picture is a little like consulting the |
| | law of gravitation before going for a walk. |
| | Such rules and laws are deduced from the |
| | accomplished fact; they are the products of |
| | reflection . . . - Edward Weston |
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