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Keep your mind open. You may very well learn something new about yourself and your pictures.

Jay Maisel

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Jay Maisel
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: January 18
Photographer
Brooklyn
New York
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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 cannot accurately remember color.
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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 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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I don't see light as something that falls, but as a positive force.
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The pictures are everywhere. If you're open, they will find you.
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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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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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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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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 always end up with too many pictures to edit and too few that you feel 'got it'.
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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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We don't experience light, color, and gesture in a vacuum. We experience it in contexts.
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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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Be aware of every square millimeter of your frame.
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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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The best camera is the one you have with you.
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Try to go out empty and let your images fill you up.
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Forget what it was. Look at what it is.
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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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