Image Quality Quotes

I'm always secretly the most pleased when a show just really, really looks good and when my camera guys are really happy with the images they got.

I think that lens flares can work really well under certain circumstances. Personally, I am trying to get rid of them most of the time. I don't like artifacts that draw attention to the surface of the image.

I like to know where the camera is.

I think he was trying to produce more of a... sort of a cheaper image.

I'm always worried about the sitter - are they cold, are they hot, are they comfortable? Photography today is so accurate and so good that it's really so much easier just to take photographs and work from them.

I take a lot of pride in my photography.

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

From the beginning, the camera and I were great friends. It loves me, and I love it.

I have often thought that if photography were difficult in the true sense of the term - meaning that the creation of a simple photograph would entail as much time and effort as the production of a good watercolor or etching - there would be a vast improvement in total output. The sheer ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to creative disaster.

There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.

Liberman said to me, 'I must cut back on the work you do for Vogue. The editors don't like it. They say the photographs burn on the page. After some years, I began to understand that what they wanted of me was simply a nice, sweet, clean-looking image of a lovely young woman.

I don't really have a favorite camera. I use a Leica and Canon a lot. It depends, especially professionally, on the requirements. But my carry-around camera is a Leica.

Digital technology has thrown a closed shop wide open, and there are more people out there snapping away than ever before. Some of the pictures are bad, some of them are good, and many of them need some seasoning and direction.

I just had the joy of taking pictures, and I never cared about my negatives. I just gave them away whenever anybody asked for them.

Every social media post should have a beautiful graphic. If there are two identical stories, the one with the beautiful graphic will always win.

The glory of 70mm is the sharpness of the image it offers.

The megapixel war in conventional cameras has been a total myth. It's taking us all in the wrong direction. Once a picture goes online, you're throwing away 95 to 98 percent of those pixels.

A small lens gives you a very specific look. You don't have a shallow depth of field.

There's always the temptation, as a cinematographer, to make the shot look as perfect as possible.

In 1970 I realized that there was negligible risk from x-rays but many radiographs had poor image quality so that the risk from a false negative was significant.

I have always stood in awe of the camera. I recognize it for the instrument it is, part Stradivarius, part scalpel.

I definitely take a lot of bad pictures!

I just love the look of film. But I have nothing against HD.

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

I've learned to create a palette, a vocabulary of ways to take pictures.