45 Photographing Quotes for You to Enjoy

To know ahead of time what you're looking for means you're then only photographing your own preconceptions, which is very limiting, and often false. Dorothea Lange

Time You Looking Own Photographing Only Know Limiting False Very Often Preconceptions Which Then Means Your

I told myself, 'When I grow up, I want to make pictures that can inspire and nourish people.' Immediately, when I was 10, I started photographing nature. I built a darkroom. My first really good darkroom, not just down in the cellar, was when I was 14. Bill Atkinson

When I'm photographing, I look for the personal style with which something is worn - sometimes even how an umbrella is carried or how a coat is held closed. Bill Cunningham

Sometimes Style Closed Worn Carried Photographing Something Look How Umbrella Personal Which Personal Style Held Coat Even

The Bahamas has mangrove nurseries, coral reefs, shallow sea grass beds, and deep oceanic trenches - all perfect ecosystems for sharks. Photographing multiple shark species in exquisite water was the assignment I had dreamed about from the start. Brian Skerry

I've played in bands myself, and sat on the floor photographing some of the greatest bands in the world while they rehearse. What's always struck me is how different the sensory, especially auditory, experience is when you're in the middle of the music with the musicians playing off each other around you. Chris Milk

Music Myself Me You Musicians Experience World Other Photographing Some Struck Around Greatest Always How Off Bands Middle Different While Sensory Rehearse Sat Each Floor Played Playing

I just love photographing things and putting them together to tell a story. Christopher Nolan

Love Together Tell Photographing Putting Just Story Them Things

Today, it's almost the outlier if people are not photographing what they ate and then sharing that in real time. Danny Meyer

Today Time People Ate Photographing Sharing Almost Real Real Time Then

You adapt to who you're photographing. David Bailey

You Photographing Who Adapt

I sort of fall in love with them when I'm photographing them - men and women. David Bailey

Love Women Men Men And Women Fall Photographing Sort Them

It was only after a while, after photographing mines and clear-cutting of forests in Maine, that I realized I was looking at the components of photography itself. Photography uses paper made from trees, water, metals, and chemistry. In a way, I was looking at all these things that feed into photography. David Maisel

I've seen my own blood and broken a few bones. I've been hit, which isn't an entirely bad thing, as at least you have a glimpse of the suffering endured by the people you are photographing. And in a sense, crumbling empires and war have been with me all my life. Don McCullin

Life War Me Broken You Suffering People My Life Seen Few Own Sense All My Life Bad Photographing Entirely My Own Bad Thing Crumbling Empires Glimpse Least Been Blood Hit Endured Which Thing By The People Bones

Be sure to take the lens cap off before photographing. Elliott Erwitt

Before Photographing Take Sure Off Cap Lens

What I have tried to do is involve the people I was photographing... if they were willing to give, I was willing to photograph. Eve Arnold

People Willing Photograph Photographing Tried Give Involve Were

Born Berlin 1931, Germany, father a British diplomat, mother an American artist. Educated at various schools all over the world. 1958 Settled down to live in London. 1966 Became interested in photography through photographing my young children. No formal training. Fay Godwin

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I'm more interested in photographing people who have done something, like writers or directors - even billionaires - as long as I can study them before I photograph them. Francesco Carrozzini

People Long Before Photograph Photographing Something More Directors Writers Study Like Done Interested Them Who Billionaires Even

I started writing and photographing for different publications and finally ended up being the correspondent in South Asia, for the Geneva-based Journal de Geneve, which at one time used to be one of the best international newspapers in Europe. Francois Gautier

What I mean by photographing as a participant rather than observer is that I'm not only involved directly with some of the activities that I photograph, such as mountain climbing, but even when I'm not I have the philosophy that my mind and body are part of the natural world. Galen Rowell

I had done some work when I was starting in with photography on westerns, and photographing them was the greatest pleasure I had. If I was ever qualified for anything, it would have had to do with making westerns. But as I started working on pictures with people like Katharine Hepburn, I got further away from the thing I really liked to do. George Stevens

Work Photography People Further Pleasure Would Photographing Some Had Pictures Like Liked Qualified Greatest Got Making Greatest Pleasure Westerns Done Anything Them Really Working Away Ever Hepburn Thing Started Starting

I always feel I had a very lucky life. For example, I sure didn't want to go in the army: when I was drafted in the Korean War, I wanted to go as a photographer. But luckily, they put me in the infantry - luckily because the official photographer was photographing the medal awarding and all the official situations. Harold Feinstein

Life War Me Army Example Photographer Photographing Had Put Feel For Example Sure Because Always Korean Korean War Go Infantry Very Official Situations Want Wanted Luckily Lucky Medal Awarding Drafted

I began photographing in 1946. Before that, I was a painter and drawer, with my mother and father's support. They were a bit pissed when I went into photography. They thought photographers were guys who took pictures at weddings. Harold Feinstein

Photography Mother Father Thought Before Took Bit Drawer Photographers Photographing Guys Weddings Support Pictures Were Began Who Painter

I never stopped photographing. There were a couple of years when I didn't have a darkroom, but that didn't stop me from photographing. Imogen Cunningham

Me Photographing Darkroom Never Couple Were Years Stop Stopped

I try to use whatever I know about photography to be of service to the people I'm photographing. James Nachtwey

Service Photography People Try Whatever Photographing About Know Use

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