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Microstock Photography Forum - General => Off Topic => Topic started by: Kone on June 04, 2010, 16:50
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Hi all, here's some fun stuff.
I decided to post quotes of some famous photographers and anonymous. Feel free to post any you may also remember.
These are some of my favourites:
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There is nothing worse than a brilliant image of a fuzzy concept. - Ansel Adams
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A good photograph is knowing where to stand. - Ansel Adams
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A photograph is not an accident – it is a concept. - Ansel Adams
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Once photography enters your bloodstream, it's like a disease. - Anonymous
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Never show a customer two prints of different density. He will ask you to print a third with a density between the two. - Anonymous
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Learn from the mistakes of others, because you won't have time to make them all yourself. - Anonymous
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Photography was once described as painting with light. - Anonymous
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Photography is like golf, you never master it, but you can always get better. - Anonymous
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Most cameras and most lenses are better than most photographers. - Anonymous
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If you buy a flute, you own a flute. So why is it that when you buy a camera, you're a photographer? - Anonymous
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Photography is like a lemon, sour to some, but lemonade to others. - Anonymous
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The pictures you want tomorrow, you have to take today. - Anonymous
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Upgrade your knowledge before you upgrade your camera. - Anonymous
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My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph. - Richard Avedon
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Lately I've been struck with how I really love what you can't see in a photograph. - Diane Arbus
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A snapshot steals life that it cannot return. A long exposure [creates] a form that never existed. - Dieter Appelt,
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Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. - Scott Adams
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Having and camera makes you no more a photographer than having a hammer and some nails makes you a carpenter. - Claude Adams
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Photography is not about cameras, gadgets and gismos. Photography is about photographers. A camera didn't make a great
picture any more than a typewriter wrote a great novel. - Peter Adams
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If it makes you laugh,
if it makes you cry,
if it rips out your heart,
that's a good picture. - Eddie Adams
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Very interesting.
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iStock rejected this image while Shutterstock took it and it's selling. **** Thousands of microstockrs.
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I was surprised to see this there:
"Photography was once described as painting with light. - Anonymous "
As I understand it, it wasn't so much 'once described' as such, but is a deliberate construct, fusing two Greek words together and is literally translated as 'drawing with light'. ("Photo" being the word for light - and "graph" the word for drawing).
I'm not an expert in Greek, so feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but that's what I was told many years ago.
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I took two years of Koine Greek in college and yes you are right rubyroo.
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Can't remember where I saw it or heard it, but I'll paraphrase
"Those who can't shoot can get a 40MP camera and their photos will still suck, but they'll suck at a much higher resolution"
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Thanks Eppic - good of you to confirm that :)
Stormchaser - that's a great paraphrase. They should put that at the top of agency FAQs :D
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Very nice quotes, indeed.
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The one quote from Ansel Adams that stays with me is this:
"You don't take a photograph, you make a photograph."
(I hope I got that right)
PS . . . I forgot I was talking to a bunch of salty old dogs so I guess everyone knows that quote. :)
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That's a great one too etienjones.
I like this one - it's one I need to keep in mind myself:
“If you are out there shooting, things will happen for you. If you’re not out there, you’ll only hear about it.” - Jay Maisel
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;D
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One of my favorites:
"You can't be a Nice Nellie and do photography." —Weegee
And another:
"The world is going to pieces and people like Adams and Weston are photographing rocks!" - Henri Cartier-Bresson
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« Get a little closer...3...2...1...Smile!»
- My dad
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"Thing, you're a handful." Morticia Addams
Why are there so many quotes in the original from people named Adams?
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Great Quotes, thanks for sharing.
Best,
Jonathan
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Hi all, here's some fun stuff.
I decided to post quotes of some famous photographers and anonymous. Feel free to post any you may also remember.
These are some of my favourites:
Thanks, Kone. Several of these brought a smile. I've stolen a few to amuse members of my photo club. :)