Quotes About Photography

One afternoon, on my way to the campus - I was majoring in political science at Nairobi University - a photographer by the name of Peter Beard stopped me in the street and asked me if I'd ever been photographed.

I'm just the opposite of a lot of photographers who want everything to be really, really sharp. And they're always, you know, stopping it down to F64.

I never know what kind of people I'll meet just by stopping to take a photo.

For the most part, we've moved past the awkward-for-everyone period of food bloggers toting giant DSLR cameras and flash kits in restaurants, but that's been replaced by almost everyone armed with a phone stopping to immortalise their breakfast.

A good snapshot stops a moment from running away.

Love making jewelry? Awesome! Find blogs that inspire you, follow people on social media who have great taste, start an Etsy store, and borrow a friend's DSLR to take some beautiful photos of your craft. All of this costs $0.

I was drawn to street photography because there are pictures everywhere there: a woman holding a dog, a baby screaming to be put in a pram, kids playing punch ball, stores with huge barrels of kosher pickles outside. I wanted to photograph life, and here it was.

My father was a small business owner. When I was growing up, he ran a one-hour photo store - back when there were one-hour photo stores.

It doesn't matter what you do, as long as you're fulfilling that inner need, and for me the need is more the process than the finished product. My photographs are stories of the process.

I became obsessed with the storytelling of photography and going on little adventures.

When you think about it, media's the intersection of content and technology - it's all about storytelling, like photography and the camera.

For nearly two years, I was flying above the planet with my camera. I knew straight away that this was something important to do, just at this moment, a portrait of the planet for the millennium year. I worked in 80 countries, fighting for money all the time.

Being a shy person, I always felt strange outside with my camera.

I'm most interested in finding the strangeness and irony in reality. That's my forte.

In the late nineties, Katy Grannan began making haunting photographs of people who had extraordinary inner yens to be seen by strangers.

Kids naturally tend to be a bit camera shy, especially in front of strangers.

For most of human history, the proliferation of the individual likeness was the sole prerogative of the illustrious, whether it was he face of the emperor on a Roman coin or the face of Garbo on the silver screen. The commercialization of photography may have broadened access to portraiture somewhat, but apart from wanted posters, the image of most common people would never be widely propagated.

photography was "a circus kind of business, and unfit for a gentleman to engage in.

Good pictures, Curtis explained, are not products of chance, but come from long hours of study.

The day had darkened an f-stop or two.

As an avid photographer, I also took advantage of the latest technology in photography - digital photography - to post photos on my website on a daily basis.

Modeling is just one of those things that goes along with acting. When it's offered, it's hard to say no, because it's fun.

I used to be a kid with a camera, and that used to be kind of endearing to people. Now I'm sort of an old lady with a camera.

In general, I just try to make the people that I'm shooting feel like they are in good hands. I'm open-minded, and I invite them to be open-minded to the process. I'm direct and curious.