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The pictures are everywhere. If you're open, they will find you.

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Jay Maisel
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: January 18
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Brooklyn
New York
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Everywhere
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You must be open to what otherwise may seem to be a detriment to your 'plans'.
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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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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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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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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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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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You have to learn not only from your failures. You must also learn from your successes.
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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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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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Failing is not a problem. Not trying is a problem.
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You cannot accurately remember color.
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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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Try to go out empty and let your images fill you up.
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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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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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You always end up with too many pictures to edit and too few that you feel 'got it'.
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I'm a New Yorker. I don't believe in air unless I can see it.
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If you can capture the element of surprise, you're way ahead of the game.
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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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If you want to make more interesting pictures, become a more interesting person.
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