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I love when pictures ask questions or make others ask questions.

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Jay Maisel
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: January 18
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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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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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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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Never say you're going back - SHOOT IT NOW!
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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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Forget what it was. Look at what it is.
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Color is seductive. It changes as it interacts with other colors, it changes because of the light falling upon it, and it changes as it becomes larger in size.
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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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If you can capture the element of surprise, you're way ahead of the game.
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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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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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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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If you don't have a camera, the best thing you can do is describe how great it looked.
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Try to go out empty and let your images fill you up.
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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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One color alone means nothing. I acts as in a vacuum, with no other colors to relate to. It is only when colors relate to other colors that the fun begins.
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We don't experience light, color, and gesture in a vacuum. We experience it in contexts.
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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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The best camera is the one you have with you.
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If you want to make more interesting pictures, become a more interesting person.
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