Jay Maisel Quotes About Photography

Quotes about: Photography

• 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

  Photography, Shooting, Hearing

• If the light is great in front of you, you should turn around and see what it is doing behind you.

  Jay Maisel

  Photography, Light, Behind You

• Try to go out empty and let your images fill you up.

  Jay Maisel

  Photography, Trying, Photographer

• Always carry a camera, it's tough to shoot a picture without one.

  Jay Maisel

  Photography, Cameras, Tough

• Photography is an act of love.

  Jay Maisel

  Photography, Acts Of Love

• I'm a New Yorker. I don't believe in air unless I can see it.

  Jay Maisel

  Photography, Believe, Air

• If you're not shooting in the right direction, it doesn't matter how well you're shooting.

  Jay Maisel

  Photography, Shooting, Matter

• If you want to make more interesting pictures, become a more interesting person.

  Jay Maisel

  Photography, Interesting, Want

• If you can capture the element of surprise, you're way ahead of the game.

  Jay Maisel

  Photography, Games, Elements

• 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.

  Jay Maisel

  Photography, Black And White, Color

  Jay Maisel (2014). “Light, Gesture, and Color”, p.7, New Riders

• Had I not been told to look, I would have quite, ignorant of what was really there, because I had 'made plans' and was wearing visual and emotional blinders that limited my perceptions and my vision.

  Jay Maisel

  Photography, Emotional, Perception

• I don't see light as something that falls, but as a positive force.

  Jay Maisel

  Photography, Fall, Light

• As people, we love pattern. But interrupted pattern is more interesting.

  Jay Maisel

  Photography, People, Interesting

• Never put lettering in your photos unless you want it read.

  Jay Maisel

  Photography, Want, Photographer

• Be aware of every square millimeter of your frame.

  Jay Maisel

  Photography, Squares, Photographer

• There is no one solution to all problems. It's the problem itself that can lead to the solution.

  Jay Maisel

  Photography, Problem, Solutions

  Jay Maisel (2014). “Light, Gesture, and Color”, p.36, New Riders

• Never say you're going back - SHOOT IT NOW!

  Jay Maisel

  Photography, Photographer

• When finding the right angle for a shot...'Move your ass.'

  Jay Maisel

  Photography, Moving, Photographer

• If you're not your own severest critic, you are your own worst enemy.

  Jay Maisel

  Photography, Worst Enemy, Photographer

  Jay Maisel (2014). “Light, Gesture, and Color”, p.1, New Riders

• Color is seductive. It changes as it interacts with other colors, it changes because of the light falling upon it, and it changes as it becomes larger in size.

  Jay Maisel

  Photography, Fall, Light

  Jay Maisel (2014). “Light, Gesture, and Color”, p.5, New Riders

• We don't experience light, color, and gesture in a vacuum. We experience it in contexts.

  Jay Maisel

  Photography, Light, Color

  Jay Maisel (2014). “Light, Gesture, and Color”, p.18, New Riders

• As you see something that yo want to shot and it's bearing down on you, it's important to start framing long before the subject gets close to you. The light will reveal itself possibly long before you want to take the image, but you have to wait until the picture comes to you, and if you've been anticipating carefully when the subject will be in position, the background will have been figured out in advance.

  Jay Maisel

  Photography, Light, Long

• The awareness of the quality of space in out photos is akin to our awareness of the very air in our photos, the atmosphere that pervades every square inch of our image and yet is often invisible to the photographer.

  Jay Maisel

  Photography, Squares, Air

  Jay Maisel (2014). “Light, Gesture, and Color”, p.138, New Riders

• You have to let the past successes go, or you'll never be able to see anew.

  Jay Maisel

  Photography, Past, Able

  Jay Maisel (2014). “Light, Gesture, and Color”, p.202, New Riders

• You always end up with too many pictures to edit and too few that you feel 'got it'.

  Jay Maisel

  Photography, Photographer, Ends

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