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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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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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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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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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Be aware of every square millimeter of your frame.
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You cannot accurately remember color.
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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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You have to learn not only from your failures. You must also learn from your successes.
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If you can capture the element of surprise, you're way ahead of the game.
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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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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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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 context it appears.
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The best camera is the one you have with you.
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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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We don't experience light, color, and gesture in a vacuum. We experience it in contexts.
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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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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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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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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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Gesture will survive whatever kind of light you have. Gesture can triumph over anything because of its narrative content.
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