Ren Ng Quotes

I'm not an expert when it comes to technology, but what changed things for me was autofocus. I used to have to throw away half my pictures because it was so difficult to get the focus right.

I have a low-tech camera with one lens that I've shot everything in my life on. My subjects and my subject matter sometimes really are powerful, and so my job is to get it into focus.

DSLRs take beautiful pictures, but they are hard to focus.

For low light, all the light rays participate. We're using all the light coming through a large aperture to make a picture with a large depth of field - totally impossible with a conventional camera.

Photography is the simplest thing in the world, but it is incredibly complicated to make it really work.

My close-up was magnificent!

In the early days of picture-taking, the exposure shutter had to stay open for a long time, so you had to stay really still.

I'm not a photographer, so I didn't get into F-stops or ND filters or background, foreground, cross-light, all that stuff. But I was interested in the camera and the lenses. That's the world that I'm moving in, in terms of acting and giving a performance.

I've always been intimidated by the technicalities of taking photos, especially with a film camera - not just a point and shoot.

We're trying to get good pictures. Don't worry very much about what I say.

I became interested in photography when I found my own sketching was inadequate.

Be sure to take the lens cap off before photographing.

When a regular camera focuses physically, what the regular camera is doing is adjusting the lens relative to the sensor to bring different parts of the scene into focus.

If your pictures are not good enough, it’s because you are not close enough.

I shoot with a Canon 5D Mark III.

It's usually so fraught when you're taking a picture. I work with an 8-by-10 view camera and there's a, you know, hood that I put over my head, and it's tricky and complicated.

So the thing that's beautiful about the Rolleiflex is that I open the camera up from the top and put my face in and that the camera's all about composition and all about light.

What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.

There are a thousand ways to point a camera, but really only one.

Photography is about light and what it does and how it is captured on a piece of negative.

And I'm a pretty avid photographer, I've been into photography for years now, so I try to spend some of my free time with that.

I am a big fan of photography, more of being behind the camera - so when I get the opportunity to work with such great photographers, I always try and learn from their technique.

I like to know where the camera is.

I don't really know how to work a camera.

Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.