There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.
If your pictures aren't good enough, you aren't close enough.
A good photograph is knowing where to stand.
A good snapshot stops a moment from running away.
A good photograph is one that communicates a fact, touches the heart and leaves the viewer a changed person for having seen it. It is, in a word, effective.
No place is boring, if you've had a good night's sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film.
Look and think before opening the shutter. The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera.
If I knew how to take a good photograph, I'd do it every time.
It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary.
Once the amateur's naive approach and humble willingness to learn fades away, the creative spirit of good photography dies with it. Every professional should remain always in his heart an amateur.
No photographer is as good as the simplest camera.
I have often thought that if photography were difficult in the true sense of the term - meaning that the creation of a simple photograph would entail as much time and effort as the production of a good watercolor or etching - there would be a vast improvement in total output. The sheer ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to creative disaster.
There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment. This kind of photography is realism. But realism is not enough - there has to be vision, and the two together can make a good photograph.
Bad weather makes for good photography.
Good photography is not about Zone Printing or any other Ansel Adams nonsense. It's just about seeing. You either see or you don't see. The rest is academic. Photography is simply a function of noticing things. Nothing more.
There is 3 key things for good photography: the camera,lighting and... Photoshop
I don't care so much anymore about 'good photography'; I am gathering evidence for history.
Good films are not made by accident, nor is good photography. You can have good things happen, on occasion, by accident that can be applied at that moment in a film, but your craft isn't structured around such things, except in beer commercials.
Good photography is unpretentious.
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