Jay Maisel - Shooting Quotes

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Sometimes without shooting a picture germinates in your head. Other times, you keep taking pictures of the same thing and watch the images mature and grow.

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Some have said that if you take a great picture in color and take away the color, you'll have a great black-and-white picture. But if you're shooting something about color and you take away the color, you'll have nothing.

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The whole world is there for you. Gifts will happen, but only if you are patient with life itself, the shooting process, and your own limitations.

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You sort of have to be always aware, even when you're not thinking of shooting. That's when the best stuff happens.

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I try not to tell students where to shoot, when to shoot, or what to shoot. I feel finding the picture is the most important part of being a photographer. The actual shooting is of lesser importance.

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