Favorite Photographer Quotes
Mar 21, 2012 09:31:40 #
If I do not get this right, please correct me on this.
Ed Neblett from Kodak, the guy who figured out how to put pre-mixed chemicals into cans and boxes, wrote a book entitled "Bigger and Better: The Art of Enlarging". If my memory serves me correctly, he said "Enlarging makes a good picture better and a bad picture worse."
That quote has guided me thru traditional, film and chemical photography and now thru digital photography. Sure, the tools are different and better, but the aesthetics remain pretty much the same.
Ed Neblett from Kodak, the guy who figured out how to put pre-mixed chemicals into cans and boxes, wrote a book entitled "Bigger and Better: The Art of Enlarging". If my memory serves me correctly, he said "Enlarging makes a good picture better and a bad picture worse."
That quote has guided me thru traditional, film and chemical photography and now thru digital photography. Sure, the tools are different and better, but the aesthetics remain pretty much the same.
Mar 21, 2012 09:43:58 #
rborud
Loc: Minnesota
ngc1514 wrote:
Has any photographer said something that you found particularly useful in your image making? My favorite comes from Edward Weston:
"There is nothing photogenic more than 500 feet from your car."
The value varies according to the source, but his heart was in the right place!
"There is nothing photogenic more than 500 feet from your car."
The value varies according to the source, but his heart was in the right place!
My favorite is I believe from Stiechen "A good photographer has a well filled wastbasket".
Mar 21, 2012 10:05:45 #
My favorites:
1) By every Olan Mills photographer: "Hold STILL, Dammit!"
2) and by nearly every one: "Crap! Forgot to take the dam' lens cap off..."
1) By every Olan Mills photographer: "Hold STILL, Dammit!"
2) and by nearly every one: "Crap! Forgot to take the dam' lens cap off..."
Mar 21, 2012 10:42:23 #
Mar 21, 2012 10:52:33 #
Anyone know the name of the photographer who when asked to explain how he got such great photographs answered, "f8 and be there"?
Mar 21, 2012 11:19:41 #
Curtis Thomson wrote:
Anyone know the name of the photographer who when asked to explain how he got such great photographs answered, "f8 and be there"?
Name eludes me but circumstances were i believe he was a photo editor for a newspaper. When sending out photographers for an assignment one of them asked him what settings he should use. That was the answer in his frustration with them for such a question
Mar 21, 2012 11:25:18 #
I have a couple of favorites from John Thawley a great Motorsport Photographer.
"what stands between me and photographic greatness lies between my ears, NOT in my camera bag."
and
"Remember, the hobby is about taking pictures, NOT collecting equipment."
"what stands between me and photographic greatness lies between my ears, NOT in my camera bag."
and
"Remember, the hobby is about taking pictures, NOT collecting equipment."
Mar 21, 2012 11:52:02 #
from W. Eugene Smith: American photojournalist, war photographer & artist.
"available light is any darned light that is available!"
Incidently, I know his son K. Patrick Smith. He is the young boy with his sister of the beautiful image "Into the light".
"available light is any darned light that is available!"
Incidently, I know his son K. Patrick Smith. He is the young boy with his sister of the beautiful image "Into the light".
Mar 21, 2012 12:39:20 #
rambler
Loc: Masssachusetts
"When is the best time to shoot a vertical? Answer: Right after the horizontal." Bryan Peterson
Mar 21, 2012 12:50:40 #
Curtis Thomson wrote:
Anyone know the name of the photographer who when asked to explain how he got such great photographs answered, "f8 and be there"?
The Adorama blog credits Weegee (Arthur Fellig). Other sources trace it back to an earlier statement by Walker Evans, "F11 and hold it still."
Mar 21, 2012 12:55:01 #
bvm
Loc: Glendale, Arizona
as a famous photographer once said
" There's no picture worth dying for ! "
Keep your eyes open and watch your surroundings
" There's no picture worth dying for ! "
Keep your eyes open and watch your surroundings
Mar 21, 2012 12:55:33 #
"Remember, the hobby is about taking pictures, NOT collecting equipment."[/quote]
Wish that would come up as a pop up whenever I google B&H
Wish that would come up as a pop up whenever I google B&H
Mar 21, 2012 13:07:54 #
Mar 21, 2012 13:14:36 #
betsout06 wrote:
"Remember, the hobby is about taking pictures, NOT collecting equipment."
Wish that would come up as a pop up whenever I google B&H[/quote]
Wow do I agree with you there - I shoot a Panasonic Lumix FZ18 bridge camera - not a Dslr but has lots of setting 18X optical & 4x digital zoom (which I seldom use) recently I went on a camera shoot with a group and I could not believe how large & heavy thier camera bags were for just a simple walking shoot of a historical town.
Harvey
Mar 21, 2012 13:25:59 #
I'm not a 100% sure that Joe McNally is the source of this quote, but anyway lets assume he is.
When Joe was asked by a young admirer as to how he managed to get a particularly difficult and time sensative shot, his reply was, "F/8 and be there."
This is much less of a flip answer than might appear at first, and especially so in the case of shots where timing is critical.
When Joe was asked by a young admirer as to how he managed to get a particularly difficult and time sensative shot, his reply was, "F/8 and be there."
This is much less of a flip answer than might appear at first, and especially so in the case of shots where timing is critical.
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