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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 always end up with too many pictures to edit and too few that you feel 'got it'.
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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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Money and fame that photography can bring you are wonderful, but nothing can compare to the joy of seeing something new.
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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 bad light. There is spectacular light and difficult light. It's up to you to use the light you have.
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Forget what it was. Look at what it is.
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Be aware of every square millimeter of your frame.
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Every picture should have a place you can go, a home, a climax.
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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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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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We don't experience light, color, and gesture in a vacuum. We experience it in contexts.
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Gesture is not always action.
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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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The pictures are everywhere. If you're open, they will find you.
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You have to learn not only from your failures. You must also learn from your successes.
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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 want to make more interesting pictures, become a more interesting person.
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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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