1,962 Quotes About Photography

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.

Great photography is about depth of feeling, not depth of field.

If you are out there shooting, things will happen for you. If you’re not out there, you’ll only hear about it.

Beauty can be seen in all things, seeing and composing the beauty is what separates the snapshot from the photograph.

A camera is just like a woman, as long as you have one of them hanging around your neck....life is just fine

Photography is not something you retire from.

As a young person, and I know it’s hard to believe that I was shy, but you could take your camera, and it would take you to places: it was like having a friend, like having someone to go out with and look at the world. I would do things with a camera I wouldn’t do normally if I was just by myself.

By shooting the darkest areas three zones lighter, you turned a black, lifeless max black zone 0 into a zone 3. I think, in life, most of us did this all the time.

The instant before something comes into focus is more exciting than any sharp certainty. Photography, child, is about the passing of time. Capturing is the goal of literature. Timelessness is the task of music and painting. But a good photograph holds time just as a vase holds water. The water will evaporate and the vase becomes a memorial to it. What separates a snapshot from a masterpiece is that the latter is a metaphor of patience...