The craft of photography is the key to good images.
ANSEL ADAMSHow high your awareness level is determines how much meaning you get from your world. Photography can teach you to improve your awareness level.
More Ansel Adams Quotes
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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 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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With all art expression, when something is seen, it is a vivid experience, sudden, compelling, and inevitable.
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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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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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The negative is the score, and the print the performance.
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A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.
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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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It is easy to take a photograph, but it is harder to make a masterpiece in photography than in any other art medium.
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The negative is comparable to the composer’s score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.
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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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You don’t take a photograph, you make it.
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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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The best picture is around the corner. Like prosperity.
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To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces.
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