Quotes About Photography

Per me fotografare significa prelevare campioni del mondo reale e metabolizzarli, come sostanza necessaria e nutriente per la memoria, e sono convinto di avere un rapporto bulimico con la realtà. Scatto davvero molte fotografie anche se, facendo per lo più uso del cavalletto e di una macchina di grande formato, riesco a controllarmi e a non farmi prendere troppo la mano dalla rapidità quasi compulsiva sempre in agguato e a mantenere un ritmo lento e misurato.

Beauty, after all, is almost always a matter of angles and resolve. Urban renewal projects were accomplished so frantically it seemed like time-lapse photography.

There is no question that photography has played a major role in the environmental movement.

I find it some of the hardest photography and the most challenging photography I've ever done. It's a real challenge to work with the natural features and the natural light.

I photograph to see what the world looks like in photographs.

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

Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives.

FARBSS (Friedman Archives Recipe for Better Sports Shots) method, which you may wish to commit to a memory location: · Set your camera to A (Aperture Priority) mode (yes, APERTURE). · Set the F/stop all the way open (lowest number). · Set ISO to something reasonable depending on your light. Your target goal for shutter speed is 1/2000th of a second or faster. · Set Focus mode to AF-C. · Set Focus Area to Wide. · Set Drive Mode to Continuous Shooting in Mid- or Hi-speed mode.

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The Color Creator Tool is a very interesting and powerful addition to the functions available to creative photographers. It presents you with a color circle, similar to what you see in many applications when you go to adjust the color of your font or background.

If a couple has their picture taken at a wedding or other social gathering, and the woman looks hot, her guy could be blinking, chewing, or even mid-sneeze, and she'll still display it on her desk at work.

Having an eye patch actually makes it easier to look through a camera - I don't have to close one eye like everyone else.

Amber starts off as sap from a tree," Joseph said in the dark. "And sometimes insects get caught in it, and over millions of years the amber turns into a gemstone, but it traps the insect inside." "Oh." "A photograph is sort of like that, don't you think?

You know, my dad wasn't a photographer or filmmaker by profession, but on Sundays, he would take pictures of me and my family or his pals horseback riding, and it was a means of communication and affection, a means of not being so dysfunctional with each other.

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It is photography itself that creates the illusion of innocence. Its ironies of frozen narrative lend to its subjects an apparent unawareness that they will change or die. It is the future they are innocent of. Fifty years on we look at them with the godly knowledge of how they turne dout after all - who they married, the date of their death - with no thought for who will one day be holding photographs of us.

I have mixed feelings about those sorts of things. When I see it done by interesting young people, I think it's very valid. But when established photographers, people in their forties, copy me and get a lot of money, well, I find that to be very stupid.

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.

When you are 18, 19, 20, you're used to being photographed all the time, in a certain way. So, the narcissism becomes almost out of control. And the way that young women are photographed, they become addicted to this feedback of the image.

When you are younger, the camera is like a friend and you can go places and feel like you're with someone, like you have a companion.

The best gift I've ever gotten... My grandpa gave me a Polaroid camera when I was younger. It was awesome!

I like to keep in touch with younger photographers. It's important that a younger generation comes up and questions the assumptions made by old farts like me.

I started out taking photos of my friends on, like, disposable cameras, and I documented my younger sister and her friends all through high school.

My youngest son becomes an award-winning nature photographer, and I cannot resist writing poems to his pictures. My daughter loves to cook, though I do not. Yet together, we write a cookbook with fairy tales. And now a second.