| The virtue of the camera is not the power it | Now to consult the rules of composition before |
| has to transform the photographer into an | making a picture is a little like consulting the |
| artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on | law of gravitation before going for a walk. |
| looking. - Brooks Anderson | Such rules and laws are deduced from the |
| | accomplished fact; they are the products of |
| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | reflection . . . - Edward Weston |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | There is nothing worse than a sharp image of |
| something. It's difficult. So often color gets | a fuzzy concept. - Ansel Adams |
| 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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| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | Photography records the gamut of feelings |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | written on the human face, the beauty of the |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | earth and skies that man has inherited and the |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | wealth and confusion man has created. |
| more you realize what can be photographed | - Edward Steichen |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | ...words and pictures can work together to |
| | communicate more powerfully than either |
| I think the best pictures are often on the edges | alone. -William Albert Allard |
| of any situation, I don't find photographing the | |
| situation nearly as interesting as | |
| photographing the edges. - William Albert | |
| Allard | |
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