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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
Photography
Open
Find
Pictures
Photographer
Everywhere

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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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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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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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When we are given gifts, we must be quick and able to accept them.
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We don't experience light, color, and gesture in a vacuum. We experience it in contexts.
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If you want to make more interesting pictures, become a more interesting person.
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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 have to have a lot of 'overage' so that your failures aren't the only thing you come home with. You've got to have a lot of things that were magnificent failures, but you want some magnificent successes.
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I love when pictures ask questions or make others ask questions.
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The best camera is the one you have with you.
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I don't see light as something that falls, but as a positive force.
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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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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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There are rules about perception, but not about photography.
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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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Failing is not a problem. Not trying is a problem.
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You cannot accurately remember color.
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Try to go out empty and let your images fill you up.
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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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