Quote

You always end up with too many pictures to edit and too few that you feel 'got it'.

Jay Maisel

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Jay Maisel
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: January 18
Photographer
Brooklyn
New York
Ends
Many
Feel
Feels
Edit
Always
Edits
Pictures
Photographer
Photography

More quotes by Jay Maisel

Image
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.
Jay Maisel
Image
The pictures are everywhere. If you're open, they will find you.
Jay Maisel
Image
Try to go out empty and let your images fill you up.
Jay Maisel
Image
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.
Jay Maisel
Image
... 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.
Jay Maisel
Image
I love when pictures ask questions or make others ask questions.
Jay Maisel
Image
There are rules about perception, but not about photography.
Jay Maisel
Image
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.
Jay Maisel
Image
If you are out there shooting, things will happen for you. If you're not out there, you'll only hear about it.
Jay Maisel
Image
Money and fame that photography can bring you are wonderful, but nothing can compare to the joy of seeing something new.
Jay Maisel
Image
If you're not shooting in the right direction, it doesn't matter how well you're shooting.
Jay Maisel
Image
Keep your mind open. You may very well learn something new about yourself and your pictures.
Jay Maisel
Image
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.
Jay Maisel
Image
I don't see light as something that falls, but as a positive force.
Jay Maisel
Image
As people, we love pattern. But interrupted pattern is more interesting.
Jay Maisel
Image
The best camera is the one you have with you.
Jay Maisel
Image
If you want to make more interesting pictures, become a more interesting person.
Jay Maisel
Image
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.
Jay Maisel
Image
Gesture is not always action.
Jay Maisel
Image
You must be open to what otherwise may seem to be a detriment to your 'plans'.
Jay Maisel