To visualize an image (in whole or in part) is to see clearly in the mind prior to exposure, a continuous projection from composing the image through the final print.
ANSEL ADAMSIn 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.
More Ansel Adams Quotes
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The artist and the photographer seek the mysteries and the adventure of experience in nature.
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Today, we must realize that nature is revealed in the simplest meadow, wood lot, marsh, stream, or tidepool, as well as in the remote grandeur of our parks and wilderness areas.
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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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Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.
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It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.
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The negative is the score, and the print the performance.
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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.
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I know that I am one with beauty and that my comrades are one. Let our souls be mountains, Let our spirits be stars, Let our hearts be worlds.
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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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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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There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
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I don’t know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.
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It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
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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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Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.
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