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Photographer Quotes by Jay Maisel
- A photographer's art is more in his perceptions than his execution. In a painter, I think the perception is only the first step, and then…
- If you're not your own severest critic, you are your own worst enemy.
- The whole world is there for you. Gifts will happen, but only if you are patient with life itself, the shooting process, and your own…
- There is no bad light. There is spectacular light and difficult light. It's up to you to use the light you have.
- The drama of light exists not only in what is in the light, but also in what is left dark. If the light is everywhere,…
- Gesture will survive whatever kind of light you have. Gesture can triumph over anything because of its narrative content.
- We have always wanted to find the 'it-ness' of anything we shoot. We want to get as deep into the subject as we can.
- You will, in time, see and show others not just the superficial, but the details, the meanings, and the implications of all that you look…
- One color alone means nothing. I acts as in a vacuum, with no other colors to relate to. It is only when colors relate to…
- Color is seductive. It changes as it interacts with other colors, it changes because of the light falling upon it, and it changes as it…
- You cannot accurately remember color ...
- 'Color' is quite different from 'colors.' In an image with many colors, we find that all the colors compete with each other rather than interacting…
- There really isn't anything that you could call 'bad' color. It all has to do with the amount of color you use and in what…
- 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 picture. But if…
- What you're shooting at doesn't matter, the real question is: 'Does it give you joy?'
- Always shoot it now. It won't be the same when you go back.
- You must not think of yourself as looking at the stage from the audience. You must think of it as theatre in the round and…
- We don't experience light, color, and gesture in a vacuum. We experience it in contexts.
- 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.
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