The negative is comparable to the composer’s score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.
ANSEL ADAMSDodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.
More Ansel Adams Quotes
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The craft of photography is the key to good images.
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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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The negative is the score, and the print the performance.
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Photograph not only what you see but also what you feel.
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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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To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces.
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It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
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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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We were in the shadow of the mountains, the light was cool and quiet and no wind was stirring. The aspen trunks were slightly greenish and the leaves were a vibrant yellow.
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Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.
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You don’t take a photograph, you make it.
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When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
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It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.
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We make images to “honor what is greater and more interesting than we are.”
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Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.
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