Jay Maisel Quotes

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• If you don't have a camera, the best thing you can do is describe how great it looked.
• It's a lot easier to take pictures if you always have the camera with you.
• It's not just when you shoot, or what you shot, or where you shoot, it's the combination of the three.
• The more light you have in an image, the less drama you get. The details start taking over; the mystery is all gone.
• I love when pictures ask questions or make others ask questions.
• The pictures are everywhere. If you're open, they will find you.
• Sometimes without shooting a picture germinates in your head. Other times, you keep taking pictures of the same thing and watch the images mature and…
• 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 gets…
• Since the background is as important as the subject, you mustn't let it default by chance. You must control not only vertical and horizontal, you…
• Remember that most people (those who are not photographers) don't even see the things that you missed. Many don't even look. Ergo, you are way…
• Gesture is not always action.
• It's my obligation to take out all the 'wrong' pictures.
• You have to pick the right tool for the point you're trying to make and there is no one solution.
• The problem suggests the solution.
• Sometimes as you work, you find that you are learning things about your own perceptions and motivations that are way below you consciousness. If you…
• The awareness of the quality of space in out photos is akin to our awareness of the very air in our photos, the atmosphere that…
• When we are given gifts, we must be quick and able to accept them.
• I try not to tell students where to shoot, when to shoot, or what to shoot. I feel finding the picture is the most important…
• You need minimum color for maximum effect.
• Always wait for the trigger. The trigger is the final part of the puzzle, the reason you want to shoot.

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