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“If you are out there shooting, things will happen for you. If you're not out there, you'll only hear about it.”
-- Jay Maisel
#Photography #Shooting
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“If the light is great in front of you, you should turn around and see what it is doing behind you.”
-- Jay Maisel
#Light #Behind You #Should
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“Try to go out empty and let your images fill you up.”
-- Jay Maisel
#Photography #Trying #Empty
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“Always carry a camera, it's tough to shoot a picture without one.”
-- Jay Maisel
#Cameras #Tough
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“Photography is an act of love.”
-- Jay Maisel
#Photography #Acts Of Love
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“If you're not shooting in the right direction, it doesn't matter how well you're shooting.”
-- Jay Maisel
#Photography #Shooting #Matter
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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.”
-- Jay Maisel
#Black And White #Color #Shooting
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“If you want to make more interesting pictures, become a more interesting person.”
-- Jay Maisel
#Interesting #Want #Persons
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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.”
-- Jay Maisel
#Want #Photographer #Wanted
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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 ...”
-- Jay Maisel
#Details #Looks #Photographer
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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.”
-- Jay Maisel
#Fun #Mean #Color
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“Gesture will survive whatever kind of light you have. Gesture can triumph over anything because of its narrative content.”
-- Jay Maisel
#Light #Triumph #Gestures
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“The drama of light exists not only in what is in the light, but also in what is left dark. If the light is everywhere, the drama is gone.”
-- Jay Maisel
#Drama #Dark #Light
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“Color is seductive. It changes as it interacts with other colors, it changes because of the light falling upon it, and it changes as it becomes larger in size.”
-- Jay Maisel
#Fall #Light #Color
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“You cannot accurately remember color ...”
-- Jay Maisel
#Color #Photographer #Remember
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“'Color' is quite different from 'colors.' In an image with many colors, we find that all the colors compete with each other rather than interacting with each other. The results" colors.”
-- Jay Maisel
#Color #Different #Photographer
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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.”
-- Jay Maisel
#Color #Use #Photographer
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“What you're shooting at doesn't matter, the real question is: 'Does it give you joy?'”
-- Jay Maisel
#Real #Giving #Joy
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“Always shoot it now. It won't be the same when you go back.”
-- Jay Maisel
#Photographer
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“You must not think of yourself as looking at the stage from the audience. You must think of it as theatre in the round and look at it from all sides.”
-- Jay Maisel
#Thinking #Theatre #Looks
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“We don't experience light, color, and gesture in a vacuum. We experience it in contexts.”
-- Jay Maisel
#Light #Color #Vacuums
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“If you don't have a camera, the best thing you can do is describe how great it looked.”
-- Jay Maisel
#Cameras #Photographer
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“It's a lot easier to take pictures if you always have the camera with you.”
-- Jay Maisel
#Cameras #Photographer #Easier
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“There is no bad light. There is spectacular light and difficult light. It's up to you to use the light you have.”
-- Jay Maisel
#Light #Use #Photographer
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“The whole world is there for you. Gifts will happen, but only if you are patient with life itself, the shooting process, and your own limitations.”
-- Jay Maisel
#Shooting #World #Photographer
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“If you're not your own severest critic, you are your own worst enemy.”
-- Jay Maisel
#Enemy #Photographer #Worst
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“I don't see light as something that falls, but as a positive force.”
-- Jay Maisel
#Photography #Fall #Light
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“As people, we love pattern. But interrupted pattern is more interesting.”
-- Jay Maisel
#Photography #People #Interesting
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“Never put lettering in your photos unless you want it read.”
-- Jay Maisel
#Photography #Want
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“I'm a New Yorker. I don't believe in air unless I can see it.”
-- Jay Maisel
#Photography #Believe #Air
