Ren Ng Quotes

Basically, with a regular camera, you have to take time or allow the camera to focus before you take the shot.

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

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 shoot with a Canon 5D Mark III.

That's why I like fast film. It gives you more freedom to light more naturally.

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

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

I like to know where the camera is.

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

Now, my knowledge of photography was terribly limited.

I don't know why my pictures come out looking so good. I just don't get it.

My dad had been an ardent amateur photographer, and he taught me to compose a photograph from the back to the front, and then populate the picture.

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.

The less the camera is able to capture what you're seeing in a scene, the more editing it needs.

I always liked photography in film - I studied photography growing up. I like the medium of film; I like physically holding 35-mm film. I like the way it looks, the quality when it's projected. I like the way it frames real life.

Digital photography makes you a better photographer.

Photography has always been about capturing light.

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.

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

Photography has always been a passion of mine, but I began to study light field photography when I was in the Ph.D. program at Stanford University.

Flash turns up the optical volume so that whatever lies behind the lens - be it film or a digital sensor - is a little more receptive.

Light is everything in photographs and has to be considered in all situations.

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.

Photography used to be not for the faint of heart. Its rigors would weed out the not-so-committed pretty quickly. You had to crank the f-stop ring yourself!

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.