Sunday, February 26, 2012
Saturday, February 25, 2012
Andreas Feininger said
Andreas Feininger (French, b. 1905 - d. 1999), said
"Photographers — idiots, of which there are so many — say, “Oh, if only I had a Nikon or a Leica, I could make great photographs.” That’s the dumbest thing I ever heard in my life. It’s nothing but a matter of seeing, thinking, and interest. That’s what makes a good photograph. And then rejecting anything that would be bad for the picture. The wrong light, the wrong background, time and so on. Just don’t do it, not matter how beautiful the subject is."
"Photographers — idiots, of which there are so many — say, “Oh, if only I had a Nikon or a Leica, I could make great photographs.” That’s the dumbest thing I ever heard in my life. It’s nothing but a matter of seeing, thinking, and interest. That’s what makes a good photograph. And then rejecting anything that would be bad for the picture. The wrong light, the wrong background, time and so on. Just don’t do it, not matter how beautiful the subject is."
Friday, February 24, 2012
Master their medium
"The fact is that relatively few photographers ever master their medium.
Instead they allow the medium to master them and go on an endless
squirrel cage chase from new lens to new paper to new developer to new
gadget, never staying with one piece of equipment, long enough to learn
its full capacities, becoming lost in maze of technical information that
is of little or no use since they don't know what to do with it."
By Edward Weston
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
We don't know what you are...
"About 3 years ago Air New Zealand were scouting for a photographer to work with them on their new advertising campaign and my name was put forward by a previous client. Long story short, I didn’t get the contract. Out of curiosity I asked for feedback as to why I wasn’t picked and was told quite bluntly
“We don’t know what you are.”"
By Glyn Dewis (here).
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Monday, February 20, 2012
Sunday, February 19, 2012
Friday, February 17, 2012
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