It's not just when you shoot, or what you shot, or where you shoot, it's the combination of the three. — Jay Maisel Copy Share Image
You are responsible for every part of your image, even the parts you’re not interested in. — Jay Maisel Copy Share Image
What you're shooting at doesn't matter, the real question is: 'Does it give you joy?' — Jay Maisel Copy Share Image
It's a lot easier to take pictures if you always have the camera with you. — Jay Maisel Copy Share Image
As people, we love pattern. But interrupted pattern is more interesting. — Jay Maisel Copy Share Image
If you can capture the element of surprise, you're way ahead of the game. — Jay Maisel Copy Share Image
The more light you have in an image, the less drama you get. The details start taking over; the mystery is all… — Jay Maisel Copy Share Image
The drama of light exists not only in what is in the light, but also in what is left dark. If the… — Jay Maisel Copy Share Image
I try not to tell students where to shoot, when to shoot, or what to shoot. I feel finding the picture is… — Jay Maisel Copy Share Image
Some have said that if you take a great picture in color and take away the color, you'll have a great black-and-white… — Jay Maisel Copy Share Image
A photographer's art is more in his perceptions than his execution. In a painter, I think the perception is only the first… — Jay Maisel Copy Share Image
Sometimes without shooting a picture germinates in your head. Other times, you keep taking pictures of the same thing and watch the… — Jay Maisel Copy Share Image
Remember that most people (those who are not photographers) don't even see the things that you missed. Many don't even look. Ergo,… — Jay Maisel Copy Share Image
Gesture will survive whatever kind of light you have. Gesture can triumph over anything because of its narrative content. — Jay Maisel Copy Share Image
We don't experience light, color, and gesture in a vacuum. We experience it in contexts. — Jay Maisel Copy Share Image
You must be open to what otherwise may seem to be a detriment to your 'plans'. — Jay Maisel Copy Share Image
Each picture you take has power as long as it brings experience to the person who’s looking at it. — Jay Maisel Copy Share Image
You will, in time, see and show others not just the superficial, but the details, the meanings, and the implications of all… — Jay Maisel Copy Share Image
The awareness of the quality of space in out photos is akin to our awareness of the very air in our photos,… — Jay Maisel Copy Share Image
Color is seductive. It changes as it interacts with other colors, it changes because of the light falling upon it, and it… — Jay Maisel Copy Share Image
When you shoot, that is opportunity number one to make a statement. When you edit, you have opportunity number two to make… — Jay Maisel Copy Share Image
You must not think of yourself as looking at the stage from the audience. You must think of it as theatre in… — Jay Maisel Copy Share Image
The whole world is there for you. Gifts will happen, but only if you are patient with life itself, the shooting process,… — Jay Maisel Copy Share Image
There really isn't anything that you could call 'bad' color. It all has to do with the amount of color you use… — Jay Maisel Copy Share Image
You have to have a lot of 'overage' so that your failures aren't the only thing you come home with. You've got… — Jay Maisel Copy Share Image
'Color' is quite different from 'colors.' In an image with many colors, we find that all the colors compete with each other… — Jay Maisel Copy Share Image
It's not just when you shoot, or what you shot, or where you shoot, it's the combination of the three. — Jay Maisel Copy Share
If you are out there shooting, things will happen for you. If you're not out there, you'll only hear about it. — Jay Maisel Copy Share
Sometimes as you work, you find that you are learning things about your own perceptions and motivations that are way below you consciousness. If… — Jay Maisel Copy Share
I try not to tell students where to shoot, when to shoot, or what to shoot. I feel finding the picture is the most… — Jay Maisel Copy Share
One color alone means nothing. I acts as in a vacuum, with no other colors to relate to. It is only when colors relate… — Jay Maisel Copy Share
You see shape, and how the light hits things, how the color changes from one end of the photo to the other, and how… — Jay Maisel Copy Share
As you see something that yo want to shot and it's bearing down on you, it's important to start framing long before the subject… — Jay Maisel Copy Share
