Golden Words from Photography Experts

“You don’t make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.”

Ansel Adams

“I think both style and niche will partially define themselves as you shoot and become more experienced at it. But you may still be torn between several different genres, niches, and even styles. This is the time to think: what do you really love? What would you really like to shoot? How do I want to do it? Think about it and be as specific as possible, and this will give you your niche. I suggest you take a look at your photos and analyze them. See what they have in common, how you compose them, edit them, how you use light, what emotions they usually convey. I believe that will have you a sense of what makes your style.”

Scott Choucino (Source HERE)

“Photographers tend not to photograph what they can’t see, which is the very reason one should try to attempt it. Otherwise we’re going to go on forever just photographing more faces and more rooms and more places. Photography has to transcend description. It has to go beyond description to bring insight into the subject, or reveal the subject, not as it looks, but how does it feel?”

– Duane Michals

“Photography is an art of observation. It’s about finding something interesting in an ordinary place… I’ve found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.”

– Elliot Erwin

“The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.”

– Dorothea Lange

“Seeing something again is an important aspect of art. You don’t ever see all at one time. You could see it indefinitely, and there would always be something you haven’t seen, because art is a product of the intuitive—the most powerful instrument within us. The intuitive is the most accurate sense we have.”

— Louis I. Kahn, Architect

“Shift your focus from gear to photograph itself, photographing things to photographing ideas, and from single images to bodies of work.“

David duChemin