| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | There is nothing worse than a sharp image of |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | a fuzzy concept. - Ansel Adams |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | |
| something. It's difficult. So often color gets | Now to consult the rules of composition before |
| caught up in color, and it becomes merely | making a picture is a little like consulting the |
| decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] | law of gravitation before going for a walk. |
| brilliantly to make visual statements combining | Such rules and laws are deduced from the |
| color and content; otherwise it is empty. | accomplished fact; they are the products of |
| - Mary Ellen Mark | reflection . . . - Edward Weston |
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Tulsa |
Omaha |
Pensacola |
Chandler |
Edmond |
Killeen |
Billings |
Clinton Township |
Odessa |
Braintree |
Laguna Hills |
Miami Beach |
Leominster |
Dalhart |
Lemoore |
Hazlet |
Porterville |
Freehold |
Elizabethtown |
Charlotte |
Duarte |
Bellevue |
Lamont |
Sandpoint |
Gettysburg |
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| I think you have to have a real point of view | Sometimes you can tell a large story with a |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | tiny subject. - Eliot Porter |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | I think the best pictures are often on the edges |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | of any situation, I don't find photographing the |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | situation nearly as interesting as |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | photographing the edges. - William Albert |
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| Memory is very important, the memory of | |
| each photo taken, flowing at the same speed | No place is boring, if you've had a good |
| as the event. During the work, you have to be | night's sleep and have a pocket full of |
| sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've | unexposed film. - Robert Adams |
| captured everything, because afterwards it will | |
| be too late. - Henri Cartier Bresson | |
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