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The best camera is the one you have with you.

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Jay Maisel
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: January 18
Photographer
Brooklyn
New York
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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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Every picture should have a place you can go, a home, a climax.
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I don't see light as something that falls, but as a positive force.
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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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You have to learn not only from your failures. You must also learn from your successes.
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Keep your mind open. You may very well learn something new about yourself and your pictures.
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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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Failing is not a problem. Not trying is a problem.
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There are rules about perception, but not about photography.
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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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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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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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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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There is no one solution to all problems. It's the problem itself that can lead to the solution.
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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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I love when pictures ask questions or make others ask questions.
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If you can capture the element of surprise, you're way ahead of the game.
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