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I'm an amateur photographer, apart from being a professional one, and I think maybe my amateur pictures are the better ones.

Elliott Erwitt

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Elliott Erwitt
Age: 96
Born: 1928
Born: July 26
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Do what the client wants, not what you want.
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It's just seeing - at least the photography I care about. You either see or you don't see. The rest is academic. Anyone can learn how to develop. It's how you organize what you see into a picture.
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Most photographers work best alone, myself included.
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You must have a visual sense if you want to be a photographer. It is a very subtle thing, this visual business.
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Balance of light is the problem, not the amount. Balance between shadows and highlights determines where the emphasis goes in the picture...make sure the major light in a picture falls at right angles to the camera.
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The main thing is to study pictures and stop listening to the pontifictaions of photographers. Photographers aren't oracles of wisdom. If they're good photographers, then take a good look at their pictures - what else do you need?
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The thing is that when you don't carry a camera, that's when you see pictures in particular, or at least that's when you think you see pictures in particular. When you do carry it, if you do see one on the occasion that you do, you can take it.
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You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a matter of noticing things and organizing them.
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Photography is a craft. Anyone can learn a craft with normal intelligence and application. To take it beyond the craft is something else. That's when magic comes in. And I don't know that there's any explanation for that.
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If you keep your cool, you'll get everything.
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I am serious about not being serious.
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A picture should be looked at - not talked about.
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I see no difference between my pictures that people consider amusing and the rest. To me, it's all serious work - they're just a reaction to what I see. I don't leave this apartment in the morning and say to myself 'Today I'm going to be funny and tomorrow I'm going to be sad.'
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Now very often events are set up for photographers... The weddings are orchestrated about the photographers taking the picture, because if it hasn't been photographed it doesn't really exist.
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It's about time we started to take photography seriously and treat it as a hobby.
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You don't study photography, you just do it.
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Covering a historic event is perfectly legitimate. It's not sneaking into somebody's boudoir... These people belong to history, and not to record that if you have the opportunity would be wrong.
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You don't study photography. You do it.
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Somehow Photoshop and the ease with which one can produce an image has degraded the quality of photography in general.
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I like things that have to do with what is real, elegant, well presented and without excessive style. In other words, just fine observation.
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