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You cannot accurately remember color.

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Jay Maisel
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: January 18
Photographer
Brooklyn
New York
Photography
Color
Cannot
Remember
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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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Never say you're going back - SHOOT IT NOW!
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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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If you want to make more interesting pictures, become a more interesting person.
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There are rules about perception, but not about photography.
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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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Forget what it was. Look at what it is.
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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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Try to go out empty and let your images fill you up.
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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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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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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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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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... 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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If you can capture the element of surprise, you're way ahead of the game.
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When we are given gifts, we must be quick and able to accept them.
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I love when pictures ask questions or make others ask questions.
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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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