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If you want to make more interesting pictures, become a more interesting person.

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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I'm a New Yorker. I don't believe in air unless I can see it.
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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 can't just turn on when something happens, you have to be turned on all the time. Then things happen.
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When we are given gifts, we must be quick and able to accept them.
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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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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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... 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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If you are out there shooting, things will happen for you. If you're not out there, you'll only hear about it.
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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 always end up with too many pictures to edit and too few that you feel 'got it'.
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You cannot accurately remember color.
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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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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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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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You must be open to what otherwise may seem to be a detriment to your 'plans'.
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Every picture should have a place you can go, a home, a climax.
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Each picture you take has power as long as it brings experience to the person who’s looking at it.
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Be aware of every square millimeter of your frame.
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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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