Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships. ~Ansel Adams
"A professional photographer is invited to dinner by some friends and is showing some award-winning photos. During the dinner the hostess comments 'Wow, these photos are really amazing! You must have a very good camera!'. The photographer replies: 'Definitely. By the way, this dish is excellent. You must have a very good pot'."
"When you buy a camera, you're a photographer. But when you buy a piano, you own a piano."
Ansel Adams said "A good photograph is knowing where to stand." I totally agree with this. He also said "There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept. " Yep, I agree with this one too.
I collect quotes that I like. I found these quotes in a photography book.
I think that in one hundred years people will see that photography was the pervasive expressive art form of this era. Charles Traub, photographer, art critic
Seeing is not enough; you have to feel what you photograph. Andre Kertesz
Light is the photographic medium par excellence; it is to the photographer what words are to the writer; color and paint to the painter; wood, metal, stone or clay to the sculptor. Andreas Fininger
Writers of light do it as well; they transform shape, line, color, pattern-passionless components-into photographs that grab, delight, revulse, or inspire. Their work bestows life. Author unknown
I can look at a fine photograph and sometimes I can hear music. Ansel Adams
I love that last quote. I have six more quotes. I will try to type them tomorrow, if my electric power is still on (incoming blizzard).
Photography is a human act and therefore subjective, a selective act and therefore interpretive. This make it possible for photography to be an art, for photographers to achieve a personal style-and for the camera to lie. Arthur Goldsmith
...nature has ceased to be what it always had been-what people needed protection from. Now nature-tamed, endangered, mortal-needs to be protected from people. When we are afraid, we shoot. But when we are nostalgic, we take pictures. Susan Sontag
My photographs at best hold only a small strength, but through them I would suggest and criticize and illuminate and try to give compassionate understanding. W. Eugene Smith
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"Megapixels don't matter!" Ken Rockwell
"Watch the birdie" Everyone
— Susan Sontag
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"A good snapshot stops a moment from running away" - Eudora Welty
"Buying a Nikon does not make you a photographer, it makes you a Nikon owner" : p
"A professional photographer is invited to dinner by some friends and is showing some award-winning photos. During the dinner the hostess comments 'Wow, these photos are really amazing! You must have a very good camera!'. The photographer replies: 'Definitely. By the way, this dish is excellent. You must have a very good pot'."
"When you buy a camera, you're a photographer. But when you buy a piano, you own a piano."
I think that in one hundred years people will see that photography was the pervasive expressive art form of this era. Charles Traub, photographer, art critic
Seeing is not enough; you have to feel what you photograph. Andre Kertesz
Light is the photographic medium par excellence; it is to the photographer what words are to the writer; color and paint to the painter; wood, metal, stone or clay to the sculptor. Andreas Fininger
Writers of light do it as well; they transform shape, line, color, pattern-passionless components-into photographs that grab, delight, revulse, or inspire. Their work bestows life. Author unknown
I can look at a fine photograph and sometimes I can hear music. Ansel Adams
I love that last quote. I have six more quotes. I will try to type them tomorrow, if my electric power is still on (incoming blizzard).
Photography is a human act and therefore subjective, a selective act and therefore interpretive. This make it possible for photography to be an art, for photographers to achieve a personal style-and for the camera to lie. Arthur Goldsmith
...nature has ceased to be what it always had been-what people needed protection from. Now nature-tamed, endangered, mortal-needs to be protected from people. When we are afraid, we shoot. But when we are nostalgic, we take pictures. Susan Sontag
My photographs at best hold only a small strength, but through them I would suggest and criticize and illuminate and try to give compassionate understanding. W. Eugene Smith
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses. Susan Sontag
I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed. Garry Winogrand
The camera is a fluid way of encountering that other rality. Jerry N. Velsmann
"I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed. Garry Winogrand"
Thank you for providing me with the perfect answer for when people ask me why I enjoy taking so many photos.