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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
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Photography
Action
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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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We don't experience light, color, and gesture in a vacuum. We experience it in contexts.
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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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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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Never say you're going back - SHOOT IT NOW!
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Some have said that if you take a great picture in color and take away the color, you'll have a great black-and-white picture. But if you're shooting something about color and you take away the color, you'll have nothing.
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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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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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Be aware of every square millimeter of your frame.
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If you can capture the element of surprise, you're way ahead of the game.
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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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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 cannot accurately remember color.
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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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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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Forget what it was. Look at what it is.
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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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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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As people, we love pattern. But interrupted pattern is more interesting.
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I don't see light as something that falls, but as a positive force.
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