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Photographer Quotes by Ansel Adams
- You don't take a photograph, you make it.
- When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
- There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
- Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.
- A good photograph is knowing where to stand.
- There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
- A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.
- Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter.
- Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment.
- A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.
- Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.
- Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.
- Some photographers take reality... and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them…
- A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into.
- We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever approached the full possibilities…
- Notebook. No photographer should be without one!
- The camera cannot, but the photographer can.
- One of the most important pieces of equipment, for the photographer who really wants to improve, is a great big wastepaper basket.
- It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.
- Emphasis on technique is justified only so far as it will simplify and clarify the statement of the photographer's concept.
- Photography is an investigation of both the outer and the inner worlds. The first experiences with the camera involve looking at the world beyond the…
- ...one sees differently with color photography than black-and-white... in short, visualization must be modified by the specific nature of the equipment and materials being used.
- The artist and the photographer seek the mysteries and the adventure of experience in nature.
- The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!
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- You don't take a photograph, you make it. — Ansel Adams
- When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence. — Ansel Adams
- There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer. — Ansel Adams
- Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art. — Ansel Adams
- A good photograph is knowing where to stand. — Ansel Adams
- There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs. — Ansel Adams
- A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed. — Ansel Adams