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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
Photographer
Brooklyn
New York
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If you can capture the element of surprise, you're way ahead of the game.
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It's not just when you shoot, or what you shot, or where you shoot, it's the combination of the three.
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I don't see light as something that falls, but as a positive force.
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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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I take pictures, and they are there for the taking. I'll tell you a quote that I have always thought about. Arthur Miller said, I try to create the poem from the evidence.
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There are rules about perception, but not about photography.
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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 love when pictures ask questions or make others ask questions.
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Every picture should have a place you can go, a home, a climax.
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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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All these factors are only valuable if you're curious. But in any case, the more knowledge you have, the more things are open and available to you.
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The pictures are everywhere. If you're open, they will find you.
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If you're not shooting in the right direction, it doesn't matter how well you're shooting.
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