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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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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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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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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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Failing is not a problem. Not trying is a problem.
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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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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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I don't see light as something that falls, but as a positive force.
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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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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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Keep your mind open. You may very well learn something new about yourself and your pictures.
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Try to go out empty and let your images fill you up.
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You cannot accurately remember color.
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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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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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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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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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I'm a New Yorker. I don't believe in air unless I can see it.
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Gesture is not always action.
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We don't experience light, color, and gesture in a vacuum. We experience it in contexts.
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Every picture should have a place you can go, a home, a climax.
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