Photography And Light Quotes:

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

- Trent Parke

topic: Photography, Light, Forever, Inspirational Photography, Ordinariness

Wherever there is light, one can photograph.

- Alfred Stieglitz

topic: Photography, Light, Photographer, Photography And Light

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

- John Berger

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

topic: Inspirational, Photography, Light, Inspiring Photography, Photography And Film

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

topic: Photography, Creativity, Keys, Inspiring Photography, Kodak

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

- John Loengard

topic: Light, Want Something, Interesting, Photo Shoots, Photography And Light

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

topic: Photography, Creativity, Cameras, Inspirational Photography, Street Photography

Available light is any damn light that is available!

- W. Eugene Smith

topic: Photography, Light, Photography And Light

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

- Ansel Adams

topic: Inspirational, Photography, Art, Great Photography, Inspirational Design

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

- Ernst Haas

topic: Beautiful, Photography, Creativity, Photography And Light

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

- Karl Lagerfeld

topic: Inspirational, Photography, Art, Inspiring Photography, Capturing A Moment Photography

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

- Dorothea Lange

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

topic: Inspirational, Photography, Creativity, Inspiring Art, Inspiring Photography

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

- Ansel Adams

topic: Photography, Important, Cameras, Inspiring Photography, Landscape Photography

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

- Ernst Haas

topic: Photography, Creativity, Shooting, Photography And Light

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

- Marc Riboud

topic: Inspirational, Taking Pictures, Savoring, Inspirational Photography, Inspiring Photography

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

- Ansel Adams

topic: Inspirational, Photography, Creativity, Great Photography, Inspiring Photography

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

- Henri Cartier-Bresson

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

topic: Photography, Book, Intuition, Camera And Photography, Digital Photography

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

topic: Photography, Real, Light, Photography And Light, Natural Light

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

topic: Photography, Art, Book, Inspirational Photography, Inspiring Photography

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

- Ansel Adams

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

topic: Photography, Photographer, Sometimes, Great Photography, Shutters

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

- Ansel Adams

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

topic: Photography, Photographer, Photograph, Great Photography, Inspiring Photography

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

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

topic: Photography, Light, Editors, Photography And Light

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

- Ansel Adams

topic: Photography, Photographer, Photograph, Great Photography, Inspirational Photography

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

topic: Photography, Law, Littles, Inspirational Photography, Inspiring Photography

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

- Ansel Adams

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

topic: Inspirational, Photography, Creativity, Great Photography, Inspiring Nature

You’ve gotta taste the light, like my friend and fellow shooter Chip Maury says. And when you see light like this, trust me, it’s like a strawberry sundae with sprinkles.

- Joe McNally

source: Joe McNally (2008). “The Moment It Clicks: Photography secrets from one of the world's top shooters”, p.110, Pearson Education

topic: Photography, Light, Sprinkles, Maury, Sundaes

To take photographs means to recognize - simultaneously and within a fraction of a second - both the fact itself and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that give it meaning. It is putting one's head, one's eye and one's heart on the same axis.

- Henri Cartier-Bresson

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

topic: Photography, Mean, Eye, Photography And Light, Simultaneous