All Joe McNally Quotes
- No matter how much crap you gotta plow through to stay alive as a photographer, no matter how many bad assignments, bad days, bad clients,… Alive
- We make pictures. At the end of the day, we create something potentially significant that did not exist at the beginning of the day. We… Act
- When shooting a story about someone, their hands should always be on your list to shoot. Hands
- The camera’s not a camera, really. It’s an open door we need to walk through. It’s up to us to keep moving our feet. Camera
- To me, pictures are about memory. Funny
- Seán Manchester is, unsurprisingly, very well read in both classical and more recent sources on vampires and vampirism, and cites them with great authority while… Anybody
- Always remember to make room to shoot what you love. It's the only way to keep your heart beating as a photographer. Always Remember
- If you're not having fun, your pictures will reflect that. Fun
- The most important piece of equipment in your bag is your attitude Attitude
- Our pictures are our footprints. It’s the best way to tell people we were here. Best
- Do not be afraid of mistakes. They will be with you always,every time you put a camera to your eye. [If you] shoot safe, and… Afraid
- If you view your life as a piece of fabric or a tapestry, the photography is the stitching. It keeps everything together. Everything Together
- Don’t pack up your camera until you’ve left the location. Camera
- A professor I had in college used to tell me that if someone won’t listen to what you have to say because you’re not wearing… Cause
- You’ve gotta taste the light, like my friend and fellow shooter Chip Maury says. And when you see light like this, trust me, it’s like… Chip
- Unpredictability. Accidents. Not good when you’re engaging in, say, brain surgery, but when lighting...wonderful! Accidents
- John Loengard, the picture editor at Life, always used to tell me, ”If you want something to look interesting, don’t light all of it. All
- Photography used to be not for the faint of heart. Its rigors would weed out the not-so-committed pretty quickly. You had to crank the f-stop… Committed
- Technology has eliminated the basement darkroom and the whole notion of photography as an intense labor of love for obsessives and replaced them with a… Basement
- Ansel Adams rattled around the Southwest with his battered truck and his view camera, which looked like a giant accordion with a lens attached to… Accordion
- Digital technology has thrown a closed shop wide open, and there are more people out there snapping away than ever before. Some of the pictures… Bad