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Every picture should have a place you can go, a home, a climax.

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Jay Maisel
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: January 18
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Brooklyn
New York
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You have to have a lot of 'overage' so that your failures aren't the only thing you come home with. You've got to have a lot of things that were magnificent failures, but you want some magnificent successes.
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You sort of have to be always aware, even when you're not thinking of shooting. That's when the best stuff happens.
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... there's one of the great lies of all times, that computers save time. They don't. They're time suckers. So, I'm trying not to get involved in the Photoshop.
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You always end up with too many pictures to edit and too few that you feel 'got it'.
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You can't just turn on when something happens, you have to be turned on all the time. Then things happen.
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You must be open to what otherwise may seem to be a detriment to your 'plans'.
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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 pervades every square inch of our image and yet is often invisible to the photographer.
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Try to go out empty and let your images fill you up.
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I want to go out as unprepared as possible so I can get filled up with what the world has to offer.
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Money and fame that photography can bring you are wonderful, but nothing can compare to the joy of seeing something new.
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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 becomes larger in size.
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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 get lucky, you recognize what you are doing, but all too often we don't find the connection between our work and our own motivations.
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Had I not been told to look, I would have quite, ignorant of what was really there, because I had 'made plans' and was wearing visual and emotional blinders that limited my perceptions and my vision.
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First, perseverance trumps talent. Second, do what you want to do, otherwise why bother? Third, be ethical it might rub off on others. Fourth, don't give up.
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The best camera is the one you have with you.
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The pictures are everywhere. If you're open, they will find you.
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There are rules about perception, but not about photography.
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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 other colors that the fun begins.
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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 must be aware of the depth of field (or lack of it) that you want in the background.
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