Photography Techniques Quotes

I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed.

I have to have a working knowledge of light, and optics, film emulsions and their properties, and lenses, otherwise I can't create the shoots that are the vocabulary of the films. But it is not necessary for me to be a cameraman, I can hire a cameraman.

The best zoom lens is your legs.

Using iPads as cameras, for example, is like taking pictures with a cafeteria tray.

I'll always be an amateur photographer.

The things that are close to you are the things you can photograph the best.

If I knew how to take a good photograph, I'd do it every time.

...it is seldom indeed that a composition which was poor when the picture was taken can be improved by reshaping it in the dark room.

Learning how to use different formats has made me a better photographer. When I started working in medium format, it made me a better 35 mm photographer. When I started working in 4x5, it made me a better medium-format photographer.

Color was the palette of commercial photography and snapshot photography.

I never went to a photography school, which was my saving grace.

I think the camera is a wonderful machine, don't you? And not to take photographs in this century is crazy.

You become technically proficient whether you want to or not, the more you take pictures.

Forget the camera, forget the lens, forget all of that. With any four-dollar camera, you can capture the best picture.

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

The only thing that gets in the way of a really good photograph, is the camera

Photographers want to reinvent you, to take you somewhere else, to show you in a completely different way. They look at your previous work, and try to figure out what they can do to show a new side of you.

Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'.

Nowadays, people shoot digitally and it's all in color, but you press a button and it all goes to black and white. But it's not lit for black and white. So, it's a tricky thing. If you're going do black and white, you better remember to separate things with light, because color ain't gonna be there.

PHOTOGRAPH, n. A picture painted by the sun without instruction in art. It is a little better than the work of an Apache, but not quite so good as that of a Cheyenne.

When I began to photograph nudes, I let myself be guided by this camera, and instead of photographing what I saw, I photographed what the camera was seeing. I interfered very little, and the lens produced anatomical images and shapes which my eyes had never observed.

Photographier: c'est mettre sur la meme ligne de mire la tete, l'oeil et le coeur.

I feel more like a creative artist using photography because there's - the digital work is so interesting now. It's come to that. I have had many different stages of photography - there are many different ways to take photos. But I feel now I'm in that stage of my life where I use the camera, you know, in that way.

I find the single most valuable tool in my darkroom is my trash can