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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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Jay Maisel
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: January 18
Photographer
Brooklyn
New York
Spectacular
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Photography
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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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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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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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The pictures are everywhere. If you're open, they will find 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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If you're not shooting in the right direction, it doesn't matter how well you're shooting.
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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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... 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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There is no one solution to all problems. It's the problem itself that can lead to the solution.
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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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Gesture will survive whatever kind of light you have. Gesture can triumph over anything because of its narrative content.
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Forget what it was. Look at what it is.
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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 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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