| A mad, keen photographer needs to get out | Photography is about finding out what can |
| into the world and work and make mistakes. | happen in the frame. When you put four |
| - Sam Abell | edges around some facts, you change those |
| | facts. - Gary Winogrand |
| One should really use the camera as though | |
| tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. | Memory is very important, the memory of |
| - Dorothea Lange | each photo taken, flowing at the same speed |
| | as the event. During the work, you have to be |
| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | captured everything, because afterwards it will |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | be too late. - Henri Cartier Bresson |
| something. It's difficult. So often color gets | |
| caught up in color, and it becomes merely | |
| decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] | |
| brilliantly to make visual statements combining | |
| color and content; otherwise it is empty. | |
| - Mary Ellen Mark | |
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| Sometimes you can tell a large story with a | "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the |
| tiny subject. - Eliot Porter | world about you, and trust to your own |
| | reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: |
| A great photograph is one that fully expresses | "Does this subject move me to feel, think |
| what one feels, in the deepest sense, about | and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own |
| what is being photographed. - Ansel | personal statement of what I feel and want to |
| Adams | convey - from the subject before me?" |
| | - Ansel Adams |
| Keep it simple. - Alfred Eienstaedt | |
| | 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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