bill_carson Posted February 16, 2003 Share Posted February 16, 2003 Hi All: This a quote that I have kept on top of the pile for some time and that I keep coming back to (as one possible answer to the conmtinual question of photographic image quality). "Shel Belinkoff" (whoever he is??) states, "There are no rules for good photographs; there are only good photographs." Think about this statement --- Respectfully submitted to the Leica Group. Bill Carson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ellis_vener_photography Posted February 16, 2003 Share Posted February 16, 2003 Here is another; <P><I>"We do not make photographs with cameras. We make photographs with your hearts and with our minds." --Arnold Newman</I><P>The rules fall out from good photographs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jay_. Posted February 16, 2003 Share Posted February 16, 2003 <<"We do not make photographs with cameras. We make photographs with your hearts and with our minds." --Arnold Newman>> I guess I'm a crappy photographer because all of my photographs were made with a camera. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spearhead Posted February 16, 2003 Share Posted February 16, 2003 I like this quote from Bravo:<p> <i>"A photographer's main instrument is his eyes. Strange as it may seem, many photographers choose to use the eyes of another photographer, past or present, instead of their own. Those photographers are blind." </i> Music and Portraits Blog: Life in Portugal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
art waldschmidt Posted February 16, 2003 Share Posted February 16, 2003 "I think one's art goes as far and as deep as one's love goes" - Andrew Wyeth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
awahlster Posted February 16, 2003 Share Posted February 16, 2003 I think it's good I own rubber boots! So when I have to wade through this artsy Fartsy stuff to learn more about photography I don't get my feet soiled. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
art waldschmidt Posted February 16, 2003 Share Posted February 16, 2003 Mark, there's really not that much stuff on this forum (per your concern) that will soil your feet. Beyond the images, there's a lot that falls into the "what lens do you think I should buy?", and the routine nuts and bolts categories. I like the quotes and aphorisms because they serve as a succinct kind of distillation of the originator's philosophy and view. After having learned about photography, there are some who enjoy reflecting on those things that relate to the medium's role as a means of personal or artistic expression. Anyway,.....feet can be washed!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chip l. Posted February 16, 2003 Share Posted February 16, 2003 Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter. ~Ansel Adams Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dan_brown4 Posted February 16, 2003 Share Posted February 16, 2003 How about this: "Most great photographs are the result of the photographher being his own worst critic and having the eye needed to identify a great photograph when it appears before him." Dan Brown - 2003 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lee_shively Posted February 16, 2003 Share Posted February 16, 2003 "What tilt?"--Garry Winogrand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robert_m_johnson Posted February 16, 2003 Share Posted February 16, 2003 Robert Doisneau... "If I knew how to take a good photograph, I'd do it every time." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lee_shively Posted February 16, 2003 Share Posted February 16, 2003 "Goddammit, where's that ****ing light meter!"--Lee Shively. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
george_b1 Posted February 16, 2003 Share Posted February 16, 2003 Shortly after I got my Leica IIIc in Germany (1945) I went through the factory, as I was the "Landkreis Kommondant" I was a wet-behind-the-ears Second Balloon in the Armored Force and I was stationed in Wetzlar with my tank company. An elderly German worker said to me (if I may reconstruct his meaning): "Use your camera to instantly record what you see, whether you like it or not. That is why we built these cameras." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob F. Posted February 16, 2003 Share Posted February 16, 2003 "Goddammit, where's that ****ing light meter!"--Lee Shively. ---You're in good company, Lee. I understand that's the same thing Ansel Adams was saying just before he shot "Moonrise Over Hernandez, New Mexico." He didn't find it, and for lack of time, estimated the exposure--not very accurately. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david_smith12 Posted February 16, 2003 Share Posted February 16, 2003 "No matter how much heart and soul you put into photography, you just can't make a picture if the film doesn't advance" David Smith--Photogenius and sometime Wag Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lex_jenkins Posted February 17, 2003 Share Posted February 17, 2003 "I disagree with the statement of a films latitude. That carries a connotation that the film is somehow subject to my personal whims, failings, and unthought wishes. A film is an inanimate object which has been designed with certain characteristics that are not subject to changes without repealing the laws of sensitometry. It will expose at a given quantity of light exposure, it will respond in a certain predetermined way to increases in the quantity of light exposure. It will respond in a given manner, to a given developer, at a given temperature, at a given time, with a given amount of agitation. No mystery involved in that as I see it." -- Donald Miller, February 14, 2003 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobflores Posted February 17, 2003 Share Posted February 17, 2003 " It's no use having sharp images, if you have fuzzy ideas" - don't know who said it... saw it in a movie theater before the feature, but I LIKE it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joey Posted February 17, 2003 Share Posted February 17, 2003 "I believe there is nothing more disturbing than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept!" - Ansel Adams, <i>The Camera</i>, p. 73 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven_hupp3 Posted February 17, 2003 Share Posted February 17, 2003 Lee, your quote is closest to my experience. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robert_m_johnson Posted February 17, 2003 Share Posted February 17, 2003 Ansel Adams - "When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cosmo_genovese Posted February 17, 2003 Share Posted February 17, 2003 To quote photographer Duane Michals: "I used to go to a gym and the guy who ran it had about five thousand dollars worth of photographic equipment. He would always say, 'Listen, what do you think of the Gazebo 17B and their f/4.18 lens?' And I'd say, 'What the hell are you talking about?' I never knew what he was talking about. But then I would ask, 'Well, Lenny, when was the last time you took a picture?' And he'd reply, 'Oh about two months ago.' And I'd say, 'What was that of?' He'd say he photographed a dog and then he'd bring in these prints of his dog. Somehow something got lost in the shuffle. Values got confused. This is a mistake that schools make also. You go to these schools and these kids all show you gorgeous prints of water running over pebbles. I'd rather see a not so gorgeous mistake of a brilliant idea, an idea that maybe the kid didn't even know how to solve technically. But who cares, because he's talking about something incredible. It's not the medium, it's the message for me." [<B>Darkroom</B>, Ed. Eleanor Lewis (Lustrum Press: 1977), page 133.] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bob l Posted February 17, 2003 Share Posted February 17, 2003 F8 AND BE THERE ! Not sure who said it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allen Herbert Posted February 17, 2003 Share Posted February 17, 2003 There's always a photograph, but is there always a photographer? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rogan Posted February 17, 2003 Share Posted February 17, 2003 The camera is but an interloper between the senses and the moment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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