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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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Jay Maisel
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: January 18
Photographer
Brooklyn
New York
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When we are given gifts, we must be quick and able to accept them.
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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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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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Gesture will survive whatever kind of light you have. Gesture can triumph over anything because of its narrative content.
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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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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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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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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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The pictures are everywhere. If you're open, they will find you.
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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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Forget what it was. Look at what it is.
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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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Try to go out empty and let your images fill you up.
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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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Failing is not a problem. Not trying is a problem.
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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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There are rules about perception, but not about photography.
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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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Keep your mind open. You may very well learn something new about yourself and your pictures.
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