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Each picture you take has power as long as it brings experience to the person who’s looking at it.

Jay Maisel

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Jay Maisel
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: January 18
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Brooklyn
New York
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Color really doesn't have interaction if it's full of colors. It's the interaction or relationship among or between colors that makes a color image. This usually happens with a few colors, not a glut of them.
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As people, we love pattern. But interrupted pattern is more interesting.
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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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There is no one solution to all problems. It's the problem itself that can lead to the solution.
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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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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, the drama is gone.
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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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Failing is not a problem. Not trying is a problem.
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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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The pictures are everywhere. If you're open, they will find you.
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Remember that most people (those who are not photographers) don't even see the things that you missed. Many don't even look. Ergo, you are way ahead of the game.
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If you can capture the element of surprise, you're way ahead of the game.
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There is no bad light. There is spectacular light and difficult light. It's up to you to use the light you have.
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When you shoot, that is opportunity number one to make a statement. When you edit, you have opportunity number two to make your statement. It could be an affirmation of your first choice or could go off in another direction.
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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 you're shooting something about color and you take away the color, you'll have nothing.
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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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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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Try to go out empty and let your images fill you up.
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You have to learn not only from your failures. You must also learn from your successes.
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