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Gesture is not always action.

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Jay Maisel
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: January 18
Photographer
Brooklyn
New York
Gesture
Gestures
Photographer
Photography
Action
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Keep your mind open. You may very well learn something new about yourself and your pictures.
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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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You have to learn not only from your failures. You must also learn from your successes.
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There are rules about perception, but not about photography.
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You must be open to what otherwise may seem to be a detriment to your 'plans'.
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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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Be aware of every square millimeter of your frame.
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You cannot accurately remember color.
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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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If you don't have a camera, the best thing you can do is describe how great it looked.
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If you want to make more interesting pictures, become a more interesting person.
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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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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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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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I don't see light as something that falls, but as a positive force.
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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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You always end up with too many pictures to edit and too few that you feel 'got it'.
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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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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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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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