The ‘machine-gun’ approach to photography – by which many negatives are made with the hope that one will be good – is fatal to serious results.
ANSEL ADAMSA good photograph is knowing where to stand.
More Ansel Adams Quotes
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The camera cannot, but the photographer can.
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I believe in beauty. I believe in stones and water, air and soil, people and their future and their fate.
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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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Ask yourself, ‘Why am I seeing and feeling this? How am I growing? What am I learning?’ Remember: Every coincidence is potentially meaningful.
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One of the most important pieces of equipment, for the photographer who really wants to improve, is a great big wastepaper basket.
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A photograph is not an accident – it is a concept.
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The best picture is around the corner. Like prosperity.
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A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels…
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The negative is the score, and the print the performance.
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I am sure the next step will be the electronic image, and I hope I shall live to see it. I trust that the creative eye will continue to function, whatever technological innovations may develop.
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Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.
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Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.
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The only things in my life that compatibly exists with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit.
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The artist and the photographer seek the mysteries and the adventure of experience in nature.
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I knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite.
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