Photography And Light Quotes

If you want something to look interesting, don’t light all of it.

I am not interested in shooting new things - I am interested to see things new.

Wherever there is light, one can photograph.

I find it some of the hardest photography and the most challenging photography I've ever done. It's a real challenge to work with the natural features and the natural light.

A picture is the expression of an impression. If the beautiful were not in us, how would we ever recognize it?

Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second.

John Loengard, the picture editor at Life, always used to tell me, ”If you want something to look interesting, don’t light all of it.

A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.

Available light is any damn light that is available!

You’ve gotta taste the light, like my friend and fellow shooter Chip Maury says. And when you see light like this, trust me, it’s like a strawberry sundae with sprinkles.

I am forever chasing light. Light turns the ordinary into the magical.

When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.

Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter.

For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity.

To take photographs means to recognize - simultaneously and within a fraction of a second - both the fact itself and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that give it meaning. It is putting one's head, one's eye and one's heart on the same axis.

You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.

There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are.

The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.

You don't make a photograph just with a camera

What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.

What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.

Light makes photography. Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.

Light makes photography. Embrace light.

There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.

There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.

You don't take a photograph, you make it.

The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!

Now, to consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravity before going for a walk.