Jay Maisel Quotes - Page 2

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• I want to go out as unprepared as possible so I can get filled up with what the world has to offer.

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  Filled Up, World, Want

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• Gesture is not always action.

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  Photography, Gestures, Action

  Jay Maisel (2014). “Light, Gesture, and Color”, p.90, New Riders

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• You will, in time, see and show others not just the superficial, but the details, the meanings, and the implications of all that you look at.

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  Photography, Details, Looks

  Jay Maisel (2014). “Light, Gesture, and Color”, p.4, New Riders

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• One color alone means nothing. I acts as in a vacuum, with no other colors to relate to. It is only when colors relate to other colors that the fun begins.

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  Photography, Fun, Mean

  Jay Maisel (2014). “Light, Gesture, and Color”, p.5, New Riders

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• It's my obligation to take out all the 'wrong' pictures.

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  Photography, Photographer, Obligation

  Jay Maisel (2014). “Light, Gesture, and Color”, p.96, New Riders

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• You always end up with too many pictures to edit and too few that you feel 'got it'.

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  Photography, Photographer, Ends

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• Color really doesn't have interaction if it's full of colors. It's the interaction or relationship among or between colors that makes a color image. This usually happens with a few colors, not a glut of them.

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  Photography, Color, Photographer

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• First, perseverance trumps talent. Second, do what you want to do, otherwise why bother? Third, be ethical; it might rub off on others. Fourth, don't give up.

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  Perseverance, Giving Up, Don't Give Up

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• It's always around. You just don't see it.

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  Photography, Photographer

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• Money and fame that photography can bring you are wonderful, but nothing can compare to the joy of seeing something new.

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  Photography, Joy, Photographer

  Jay Maisel (2014). “Light, Gesture, and Color”, p.242, New Riders

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• I try not to tell students where to shoot, when to shoot, or what to shoot. I feel finding the picture is the most important part of being a photographer. The actual shooting is of lesser importance.

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  Photography, Important, Trying

  Jay Maisel (2014). “Light, Gesture, and Color”, p.168, New Riders

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• There really isn't anything that you could call 'bad' color. It all has to do with the amount of color you use and in what context it appears.

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  Photography, Color, Use

  Jay Maisel (2014). “Light, Gesture, and Color”, p.6, New Riders

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• Gesture will survive whatever kind of light you have. Gesture can triumph over anything because of its narrative content.

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  Photography, Light, Triumph

  Jay Maisel (2014). “Light, Gesture, and Color”, p.2, New Riders

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• Some have said that if you take a great picture in color and take away the color, you'll have a great black-and-white picture. But if you're shooting something about color and you take away the color, you'll have nothing.

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  Photography, Black And White, Color

  Jay Maisel (2014). “Light, Gesture, and Color”, p.7, New Riders

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• If you're just going to meet consumer or clients' demands, you might as well be a plumber - the work will be more frequently available.

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  Demand, Might, Clients

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• Never say you're going back - SHOOT IT NOW!

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  Photography, Photographer

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• You find that you have to do many things, more than just lift up the camera and shoot, and so you get involved in it in a very physical way. You may find that the picture you want to do can only be made from a certain place, and you're not there, so you have to physically go there. And that participation may spur you on to work harder on the thing, . . . because in the physical change of position you start seeing a whole different relationship.

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  Photography, Hard Work, May

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• If you're not shooting in the right direction, it doesn't matter how well you're shooting.

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  Photography, Shooting, Matter

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• I'm a New Yorker. I don't believe in air unless I can see it.

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  Photography, Believe, Air

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• If you can capture the element of surprise, you're way ahead of the game.

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  Photography, Games, Elements

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• We have always wanted to find the 'it-ness' of anything we shoot. We want to get as deep into the subject as we can.

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  Photography, Want, Photographer

  Jay Maisel (2014). “Light, Gesture, and Color”, p.3, New Riders

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• Allow yourself to lose your way.

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  Photography, Way, Photographer

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• Remember that most people (those who are not photographers) don't even see the things that you missed. Many don't even look. Ergo, you are way ahead of the game.

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  Photography, Games, People

  Jay Maisel (2014). “Light, Gesture, and Color”, p.84, New Riders

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• When finding the right angle for a shot...'Move your ass.'

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  Photography, Moving, Photographer

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• Had I not been told to look, I would have quite, ignorant of what was really there, because I had 'made plans' and was wearing visual and emotional blinders that limited my perceptions and my vision.

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  Photography, Emotional, Perception

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