Quotes About Photography

Philip Greenspun had a huge impact on me. He was the first person I knew of that embraced online communities, created a real business around open source, gave back to the community through education, and inspired me to explore photography.

I scroll through iPhone photos and see that if I delete pictures of myself with a double chin, I will erase all proof of my glorious life.

What are you doing?" Her voice stammered."Taking Your picture.""Why?" She began to reach for the camera, but he took a step back."Because you're beautiful

When you're taking photographs of people, creating the "perfect scenery" is always secondary. It's much more important to capture the emotions. Especially when there's true love.

I like to make people look as good as they'd like to look, and with luck, a shade better.

Doubt always hovers nearby, but I take photographs the way a musician hums. Looking is like breathing. So when luck turns my way and offers me a good picture, joy is surely nigh.

I was only photographing in words the reality of it all.

Our visit to Calakmul did nothing to suggest that Folan's advice was wrong. Trees enveloped the great buildings, their roots slowly ripping apart the soft limestone walls. Peter photographed a monument with roots coiled around it, boa constrictor style, five or six feet high. So overwhelming was the tropical forest that I thought Calakmul's history would remain forever unknown.

Twelve percent of all the photographs ever taken in human history have been taken in the last twelve months. And 40 percent of them are on Facebook.

Which meant gait metrics were unavailable, and facial recognition was notoriously bad at handling skin tones darker than a typical whitebread silicon valley bro. (It went all the way back to the color cards used to optimize photographic film stock for white-skinned targets in the 1950s: algorithms embodied the prejudices and biases of their designers.)

I'm going to miss my best friends - my cameras.

The Widelux is a fickle mistress; its viewfinder isn't accurate, and there's no manual focus, so it has an arbitrariness to it, a capricious quality. I like that.

I did a bit of baby modeling. I loved it.

I would love to work with designers in a modeling capacity.

Modelling has given me so much confidence.

I have been modelling since I was four years old so facing the camera is second nature to me.

The best models in the industry are the ones who feel comfortable on the set. If she doesn't feel comfortable, the images won't be beautiful.

I never really think of anyone as models, even the models.

My mood board is archival images of Brigitte Bardot and Iman, and Naomi Campbell in the '90s.

I do like being in front of the camera more and more. Having experience behind it has taught me about lighting and angles, how to move, and what looks good and what doesn't.

One of my favorite shots was on these, like, lava rocks - but moss was growing on it, and I was lying on it, and it was really green, and the picture was really pretty.

For me, the brand of the camera is not the most important thing. I think you can take good pictures with the camera on your phone.

When I grow up, I want to have an exhibit called 'American Motel.'

It doesn't matter if you use a box camera or you use a Leica; the important thing is what motivates you when you are photographing.