You don’t make a photograph just with a camera
ANSEL ADAMSA true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.
More Ansel Adams Quotes
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We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever approached the full possibilities of the medium.
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Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.
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Impression is not enough. Design, style, technique – these, too, are not enough. Art must reach further than impression or self-revelation .
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I hope that my work will encourage self expression in others and stimulate the search for beauty and creative excitement in the great world around us.
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The craft of photography is the key to good images.
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Image quality is not the product of a machine, but of the person who directs the machine, and there are no limits to imagination and expression.
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Some photographers take reality and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation.
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Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.
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The term accessories has come to include a host of photographic gadgets of questionable value.
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The quality of place, the reaction to immediate contact with earth and growing things that have a fugal relationship with mountains and sky, is essential to the integrity of our existence on this planet.
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We make images to “honor what is greater and more interesting than we are.”
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The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!
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Bad weather makes for good photography.
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I think we can not categorize. Things do not fit into a mold.
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In my mind’s eye, I visualize how a particular… sight and feeling will appear on a print. If it excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph. It is an intuitive sense, an ability that comes from a lot of practice.
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