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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
Photographer
Brooklyn
New York
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Everywhere
Photography
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I don't see light as something that falls, but as a positive force.
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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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Never say you're going back - SHOOT IT NOW!
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I love when pictures ask questions or make others ask questions.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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You always end up with too many pictures to edit and too few that you feel 'got it'.
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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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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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There is no one solution to all problems. It's the problem itself that can lead to the solution.
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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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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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Each picture you take has power as long as it brings experience to the person who’s looking at it.
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You cannot accurately remember color.
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