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There is no one solution to all problems. It's the problem itself that can lead to the solution.

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Jay Maisel
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: January 18
Photographer
Brooklyn
New York
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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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I want to go out as unprepared as possible so I can get filled up with what the world has to offer.
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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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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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Failing is not a problem. Not trying is a problem.
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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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If you want to make more interesting pictures, become a more interesting person.
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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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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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Keep your mind open. You may very well learn something new about yourself and your pictures.
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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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The best camera is the one you have with you.
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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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You cannot accurately remember color.
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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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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 love when pictures ask questions or make others ask questions.
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