Photography And Light Quotes

I am forever chasing light. Light turns the ordinary into the magical.

Trent Parke

Photography, Light, Forever

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Wherever there is light, one can photograph.

Alfred Stieglitz

Photography, Light, Photographer

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What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.

John Berger

Inspirational, Photography, Light

John Berger, Jean Mohr (2016). “Another Way of Telling: A Possible Theory of Photography”, p.75, Bloomsbury Publishing

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Light makes photography. Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.

George Eastman

Photography, Creativity, Keys

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Light makes photography. Embrace light.

George Eastman

Photography, Light, Photographer

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If you want something to look interesting, don’t light all of it.

John Loengard

Light, Want Something, Interesting

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There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are.

Ernst Haas

Photography, Creativity, Light

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Available light is any damn light that is available!

W. Eugene Smith

Photography, Light, Photographer

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You don't take a photograph, you make it.

Ansel Adams

Inspirational, Photography, Art

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A picture is the expression of an impression. If the beautiful were not in us, how would we ever recognize it?

Ernst Haas

Beautiful, Photography, Creativity

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What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.

Karl Lagerfeld

Inspirational, Photography, Art

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The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.

Dorothea Lange

Inspirational, Photography, Creativity

Dorothea Lange, Robert Coles (1982). “Photographs of a Lifetime”

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The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!

Ansel Adams

Photography, Important, Cameras

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I am not interested in shooting new things - I am interested to see things new.

Ernst Haas

Photography, Creativity, Shooting

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Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second.

Marc Riboud

Inspirational, Life, Photography

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There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.

Ansel Adams

Inspirational, Photography, Creativity

Interview with David Sheff, davidsheff.com. March 1983.

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For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Photography, Book, Intuition

Henri Cartier-Bresson, Michael L. Sand (1999). “The Mind's Eye: Writings on Photography and Photographers”

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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.

Galen Rowell

Photography, Real, Light

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You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.

Ansel Adams

Music, Photography, Art

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Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter.

Ansel Adams

Photography, Cameras, Photographer

Eric Peter Nash, Ansel Adams (1995). “Ansel Adams: The Spirit of Wild Places”, Todtri Book Pub

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There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.

Ansel Adams

Photography, Cameras, Photographer

Attributed in "The Everything Digital Photography Book" by E.T. Schoch, (p. 105), 2002.

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John Loengard, the picture editor at Life, always used to tell me, ”If you want something to look interesting, don’t light all of it.

Joe McNally

Photography, Light, Editors

Joe McNally (2008). “The Moment It Clicks: Photography secrets from one of the world's top shooters”, p.141, Pearson Education

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A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.

Ansel Adams

Photography, Photographer, Feels

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Now, to consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravity before going for a walk.

Edward Weston

Photography, Law, Littles

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When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.

Ansel Adams

Inspirational, Photography, Creativity

Attributed in "AB bookman's weekly: for the specialist book world", Vol. 76, Nr. 19-27; (p. 3326), 1985.

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