Photographer Quotes

Just when you thought you knew everything about someone, they had to go one better.

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

Pragmatism is good prevention for problems.

A representational photograph says, 'This is what Vienna looked like.' An interpretational photograph goes one better and says, 'This is what Vienna was like. This is how I felt about it.

We are often taught to look for the beauty in all things, so in finding it, the layman asks the philosopher while the philosopher asks the photographer.

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

Photoshop and Lightroom help me transform my photos into what my heart felt, but my camera couldn't quite capture!

A city man taking the picture of a donkey and behaving like he has seen an alien creature must absolutely be photographed as he is certainly more interesting than the donkey itself!

Why you like photography so much? Because it's just the camera and me showing everyone else what we can see. It's telling stories.

Sometimes we have to try on a few different personalities before we found ourselves.

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

To capture someones light is to seal a moment in time of their soul. trapping it within a pane of glass.. forever suspended in time

There had to be something new, some fresh angle. As the rain pattered down around him, Kapenda thought. What was the weirdest thing he'd seen since this all started? He'd been in the tiny town of Chew Stoke a few weeks earlier, filming the remains of a vehicle that had been washed into a culvert and whose driver had died. In Grovehill, no one had died yet but there were abandoned cars strewn along the streets and surrounding tracks, hulking shapes that the water broke around and flowed over in fractured, churning flurries.That was old. Every television station had those shots.He'd been there the year before when the police had excavated a mud-filled railway tunnel and uncovered the remains of two people who had been crushed in a landslide. What they needed was something like that here, something that showed how weak man's civilized veneer was when set against nature's uncaring ferocity. He needed something that contrasted human frailty and natural strength, something that Dali might have painted - a boat on a roof, or a shark swimming up the main street. He needed that bloody house to collapse.("Into The Water")

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

We are living in a moment where we have broken the equilibrium of the planet. We are not paying attention to our intuitive side. We only pay attention to our reason. We have become an urban animal

A painting shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy.

Photography saved my life by opening my eyes to the beauty that surrounds me each and everyday. Life look much richer from behind the lens.

Nothing like a bit of flattery to grease the wheels.

Whenever we look at a photograph, the memories in the photograph become our memories as well!

The less gear you use, the more you grow as a photographer. Although there are fewer options available, you'll find more creative ways to capture what you feel! In a way, all your technical options before turn into creative solutions that improve your photography even more.

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

But I did go back and soon I realized why. I was in love

She grabbed her clutch bag and circled her arms around his neck. "Caulder McCutchen, I'm really not sure what you are."He lifted his head and looked down at her, squinted. "I'm a man. Enough said?"Velia smiled and looped her arm through his. "Yes, sir. Shall we go?

Not everyone with a painting brush is an artist, likewise not everyone with a camera is a photographer

First rule to be a photographer, you have to be invisible.

Lovers tend to be philosophical, achievers are practical.

The secret to modeling is not being perfect. What one needs is a face that people can identify in a second. You have to be given what’s needed by nature, and what’s needed is to bring something new.

Capturing moments other may never get to experience.

All my images are self-portraits, even when I'm not in them.

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.

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!

Time is the sole photographer of all the times, from the Big Bang till the possible Big Crunch!

Our photographs are our best proof to others that we lived the things we lived in the past!

A Photographer is limited to some types of Photography. An Artist is able to do any types of photography. It's just a matter of choice and feelings.

If in doubt, cheese has been always the answer..

As a photographer you have a deep love for light, life and yourself. You know that the eyes of love aren’t blind, they are wide open. Only when your eye, heart and soul shine brighter than the sun, you realize how ordinary it is to love the beautiful, and how beautiful it is to love the ordinary.

When I make a photograph I feel that I hold a piece of the universe in my hands.

Put that thing down, girl. Don't you know it steals part of your soul, that little mechanical masterpiece you hold so frivolously? Don't you know it's not just mine it seals into its gears and trick mirrors, but yours, too. What you feel at this moment, what you hope for, what your dreams are, what you think your future will unfold like, it steals it all from you, too. You aren't safe just because of the side of the lens you're on. And later, when everything is said and done, and you want to forget everything that happened in these walls, when you're all alone, this picture, this piece of your soul you didn't even know was gone, will haunt you. It will come bearing knives and AKs and nine millimeters, and it will destroy you from the inside out. Put that damned thing down and stop acting like any of this is something worth remembering.

New York is a glorious place for clearing your head and finding inspiration. Every time you step outside, you live a dozen lives.

It's one thing to put on your nation's uniform to give your life for your country. But to dress up in black-market khakis and head into battle in a borrowed bush hat, armed only with a Nikon camera, 10 rolls of film and notebook, is definitely another thing.

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

Sometimes things need shaking up. You’ve got to test the limits.

Al: Now, remind me, who's walking who down the aisle again?

A professional headshot in front of a bookshelf says you're an intellectual. A professional headshot peeking though a bookshelf says you're probably under a restraining order.

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

Any files I give to the model are downsized (typically 800x1200 pixels)... By not giving out my high resolution files, they cannot be used without my knowledge.

Judging by the photograph it seemed like I hadn’t been there at all. As if it was my camera that had been on holiday, and not me.

What do we feel when we look at a good photograph? We just want to be there, right at the exact moment that photo taken!

I take same picture twice, First with my heart then camera.

Photos which captures human sadness are the noblest and the most meaningful of all the photos!

Capture the moment. It is your only sacred-memory.

People spot a big black lens, and they worry about what they're doing, or how their hair looks. Nobody see the person holding the camera.

When the world asks "what was it like?" Only the photographer can say "See!

A good photograph never belongs to the past; every time you look at it, it is with you, it is alive and it is in the present moment!

No matter how sophisticated the camera, the photographer is still the one that makes it.

Hawaii was paradise, Milan was beautiful but New York was electric.

We don't need to be a pro photographer for making a photo or an experienced author for making quotes, everyone can make photos and quotes.

Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?

People change. Sometimes I think they don't know they're changing until it's already happened, though. You get so used to being one person, it's weird when you wake up and everything is different.

A friendship forged in the fires of adversity is a strong as one that has weathered the test of time.