Quotes about photography-quotes

If Life worked on auto mode then manual mode for photography would have never existed.

Ever wondered why front camera of cellphones makes people look better while the rear camera makes them look how they are?Because when you click picture using front camera, you see yourself on screen, and that's how you should look at yourself, a better version of yourself. Whereas, the rear camera shows how other's see you. With your flaws and qualities. No added layer to hide or enhance your ownself. This is how you should learn to overcome your flaws and better your qualities.

The shutter of the photographer's camera makes that repeated mechanical sound. That unlocking and locking of the doors of light to send momentary images of the present into the light trap of the past.

Nature is beautiful in all its chaos. However, a nature photograph is beautiful only in the absence of chaos.

Not every artistic person should have to be a photographer, but every photographer should be artistic.

Photos of yesterday give good evidence of how yesterday was and they are a true prove of history!

Life is brighter than we think and better as we are. We just have to open our eyes.

When the reality looks magnificent, a real art of photography has only one choice: To capture this beauty magnificently!

When you take a photo, you often take your own reality into your camera - the reality that you shaped in your mind - and not the real reality over there, whatever it is!

Anyone can take a picture of poverty; it’s easy to focus on the dirt and hurt of the poor. It’s much harder—and much more needful—to pry under that dirt and reveal the beauty and dignity of people that, but for their birth into a place and circumstance different from our own, are just like ourselves. I want my images to tell the story of those people and to move us beyond pity to justice and mercy.

Also, Willie, I dig telling the truth. Words can be twisted but a photo never lies.Sutton laughs.What’s funny? Photographer says.Nothing. Except—that’s pure horseshit kid. I can’t think of anything that lies more than a photo. In fact every photo is a dirty stinking lie because it’s a frozen moment—and time can’t be frozen. Some of the biggest lies I’ve ever run across have been photos. Some of them were of me.

An excellent photograph is the one which has excellently captured an excellent moment!

When we look at the old photographs, we always ask three main questions: Are they alive? If they are, where are they? And finally, what is their life story? Photography is an art of creating many questions in the mind of the viewer!

Photography is a magical kind of art that allows people to preserve time and moments, and to describe the world the way they see it.

The subject, timing and light makes a photograph, great. Greater, is the photographer when he senses these are right.

Knowing the right timings, good photographs. Learning from bad timings, better photographs.

I believe all photographers want to be remembered for their images. They reflect a piece of their soul.

Photography is my other kind of music.

Walking the streets with camera in hand is akin to being on a treasure hunt as a child.

To me, the world and art of photography is to capture emotion, feelings and moments; and share it with the world.I master the art when I am capable of awaking emotion in other people through my images.

The horizon is the fine line between golden hour and blue hour.

Photographs shape the past in our own image.

Your most important gear is your eye, heart and soul.

if you have the tools but do not have the visual concept, the tools do not work

do not take pictures to please the public, the photo should be spontaneous and free

remember... the picture should tell a story in itself, and should have a spontaneous approach

She believed photography to be the greatest of all art forms because it was simultaneously junk food and gourmet cuisine, because you could snap dozens of pictures in a couple of hours, then spend dozens of hours perfecting just a couple of them.

Nature is a picture waiting to be taken.

Photographers are the history makers, because every picture is a moment which gone fore ever and can not be re shoot.”― Biju Karakkonam Nature and Wild life Photographer

Photography is not a lens but eye, not a business but art

I've never taken a photograph of someone and created a persona, I've just discovered what was already there.

In the context of photography , there was a luck.But the luck will come, when the photographer is ready.

If life worked on auto mode then there manual mode for photography would have never existed.

I believe that, through the act of living, the discovery of oneself is made concurrently with the discovery of the world around us, which can mold us, but which can also be affected by us. A balance must be established between these two worlds—the one inside us and the one outside us.

To take photographs is to hold one's breath when all faculties converge in the face of fleeing reality. It is at that moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy.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.

Of all the means of expression, photography is the only one that fixes forever the precise and transitory instant. We photographers deal in things that are continually vanishing, and when they have vanished, there is no contrivance on earth that can make them come back again. We cannot develop and print a memory. The writer has time to reflect. He can accept and reject, accept again; and before committing his thoughts to paper he is able to tie the several relevant elements together. There is al

For me the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity, the master of the instant which, in visual terms, questions and decides simultaneously. In order to "give a meaning" to the world, one has to feel oneself involved in what one frames through the viewfinder. This attitude requires concentration, a discipline of the mind, sensitivity, and a sense of geometry.

You put your camera around your neck in the morning along with putting on your shoes, and there it is, an appendage of the body that shares your life with you. The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.” – Dorothea Lange ('Dorothea Lange: A Photographer's Life' by Milton Meltzer)

The photographer is now charging real beasts, beleaguered and too rare to kill. Guns have metamorphosed into cameras in this earnest comedy, the ecology safari, because nature has ceased to be what it always had been - what people needed protection from. Now nature - tamed, endangered, mortal - needs to be protected from people. When we are afraid, we shoot. But when we are nostalgic, we take pictures.

A great photographer show off his talent & awards on facebook.An amateur photographer show off his work and skill on facebook.A foolgrapher show off his camera and how he holds it, on facebook.

The cliché comes not in what you shoot but in how you shoot it.

We sometimes take photos (or record a video) so that we can later see what was happening while we were busy taking photos (or recording a video).

Photographing a culture in the here and now often means photographing the intersection of the present with the past.

I always see the crack in the glass before I see the window.

When posing for a photograph, spinsters should avoid looking desperate or deprived. A serene smile will show that your circumstances are by choice and not for lack of beauty or character. -Miss Gertrude Hasslebrink, 1878