“I'm a very private person. I don't go out much. I'm home with kids. I go to work. I don't really like being the focus of attention, which is why I like being behind the camera more.” PersonsHomeKidsBehindsAttentionFocusCameras Author:Angelina Jolie
“Photography is unlike any other art form. In the other arts there is always a continuous interplay between the artist and his art. He has the painting or sculpture before him. What we have tried to do is to provide a medium for "artistic expression" to anyone with only a reasonable amount of time. By giving him a camera system with which he need only control his selection of focus, composition and lighting, we free him to select the moment and to criticize immediately what he has done. We enable him to see what else he wants to do on the basis of what he has just learned.” WantNeedsGivingArtDoneMomentsFormArtistFocusPaintingExpressionAmountPhotographyBasesCamerasMediumsArtisticReasonableCriticizeCompositionSelectionSculptureSelectLightingArtistic Expression Author:Edwin Land
“Photography is a medium of formidable contradictions. It is both ridiculously easy and almost impossibly difficult. It is easy because its technical rudiments can readily be mastered by anyonwith a few simple instructions. It is difficult because, while while the artist working in any other medium begins with a blank surface and gradually brings his conception into being, the photographer is the only imagemaker who begins with the picture completed. His emotions, his knowledge, and his native talent are brought into focus and fixed beyond recall the moment the shutter of his camera has closed.” MomentsArtistEasyDifficultSimpleEmotionFocusTalentPhotographyCamerasPhotographerSurfaceMediumsFixedNativeContradictionConceptionInstructionRecallsBlankFormidableShutters Author:Edward Steichen
“The nature of the video camera really makes you focus on the present. Since I have always been a diarist filmmaker, not one who stages scenes with actors, it has always been about the present moment.” MomentsActorsFocusStageSceneCamerasVideoFilmmakerPresent MomentVideo Cameras Author:Jonas Mekas
“I think what I loved in cinema - and what I mean by cinema is not just films, but proper, classical cinema - are the extraordinary moments that can occur on screen. At the same time, I do feel that cinema and theater feed each other. I feel like you can do close-up on stage and you can do something very bold and highly characterized - and, dare I say, theatrical - on camera. I think the cameras and the viewpoints shift depending on the intensity and integrity of your intention and focus on that.” ThinkingFeelsMeanMomentsFilmCan DoFocusStageLike YouIntegrityTheaterCamerasIntentionExtraordinaryDareScreensCinemaIntensityTheatricalViewpointsCan Do SomethingExtraordinary Moments Author:Benedict Cumberbatch
“I hope I'm able to achieve more on camera through stillness, through focus, through being quite careful to do less on every take, rather than more. So I'm reducing, rather than adding. Which hopefully is a good exercise. That's what I'd like to do.” AbleFocusAchieveExerciseCamerasCarefulHopefullyStillnessReducingGood Exercise Author:Ben Kingsley
“I remember coming on my first set and it being a playground of things I wanted to ask questions about: cameras and lenses and what the lenses do, what's the focus puller doing and how does that work? Why is there less margin for error when there's less light? I was always asking questions and watching directors closely.” FirstsDoeLightWantedRememberAsksFocusDirectorsAskingCamerasErrorsLensesMarginsAsking QuestionsPlaygrounds Author:Paul Bettany
“I'm the kind of person who likes to focus on one thing at a time. I'll focus on my skiing and then when I get to the bottom of my run and the cameras are on me, I'll focus on what I need to say, and then I'll focus that night on recovering and getting ready for the next day.” NeedsKindPersonsRunningNightNextFocusOne ThingReadyCamerasBottomLikesNext DaySkiingRecoveringOne Thing At A TimeFocus On One Thing Author:Nick Goepper
“Photos should focus on your waist up, unless you have amazing legs. Then it's okay to include one or two full-body shots in your gallery. The majority of your photos should be closer up, highlighting your face. Don't stage a smile. Instead, try to laugh just before the shot is taken. Flirty smiles that don't look cheesy also work. Make eye contact with the camera. Aim to take most of your photos outdoors.” ShouldTryingLooksTwoBodyEyeFacesLaughingTakenFocusStageShotsOkayAimCamerasMajorityLegsContactYour FaceGalleryCheesyFlirtyEye ContactHighlighting Author:Amy Webb
“I raised the camera, pretended to study a focus which did not include them, and waited and watched closely, sure that I would finally catch the revealing expression, one that would sum it all up, life that is rhythmed by movement but which a stiff image destroys, taking time in cross section, if we do not choose the essential imperceptible fraction of it.” IfsStudyFocusMovementExpressionEssentialsCrossesCamerasRaisedTake TimeSectionsRevealingFractions Author:Julio Cortazar
“... I'm sort of a nervous person with the camera, so I will just shoot arbitrarily until I can focus and compose something, and then I make a shot. So generally, in [the] proof sheets, there are only three or four really concentrated efforts to take a photograph. It's not like a professional kind of person who sets it up so every photograph looks really cool.” LooksKindPersonsI CanThreeEffortFocusFourShotsCamerasPhotographProofNervousSheetsReally Cool Book:Dennis Hopper: Interviews Source: Dennis Hopper: Interviews
“There in front of me was the Senator on the floor being held by the busboy. There was nobody else around, and I made my first frame, and I forgot to focus the camera. The second frame was a little more in focus... then just for a second, while everything was open, the busboy looked up, and he had this look in his eye. I made that picture, and then suddenly the whole situation closed in again. And it became bedlam.(On the 1968 shooting of U.S. presidential candidate Bobby Kennedy.)” FirstsLooksLittlesMadeWholeEyeSituationFocusFrontsCamerasShootingPresidentialCandidatesHis EyesSenatorsPresidential CandidateBobby KennedyBusboys Author:Bill Eppridge
“Anamorphic is very difficult because the distance from the lens to the person to focus is very long so you need a lot of distance from the camera to the person so that means that you need a lot of space.” NeedsMeanPersonsLongDifficultSpaceFocusCamerasDistanceLenses Author:Jaume Collet-Serra
“It's hard to do a camera inside of a car. Non-Stop would have been impossible. Usually modern lenses you can focus up to the lens pretty much, but anamorphic you can't. You need like three feet.” NeedsHas BeensHardThreeFocusImpossibleFeetModernCarCamerasLensesNon Stop Author:Jaume Collet-Serra
“I really did feel like I was surrounded by family members. I didn't have a dad, and I remember there were all these guys - in the old days, there were no women, except a makeup artist or, occasionally, a script supervisor. So there were just guys who taught me how to, you know, whittle wood, or how to pull focus, and what the camera was doing. And if I was being bratty, they'd sit me down and tell me. There were lots of rules about not being late and making sure that you didn't spill anything. So it felt a little bit like I was in a family.” IfsKnowsFeelsLittlesRememberArtistGuyFeltBitsFocusTaughtDadMembersLateLittle BitDown AndCamerasScriptsWoodsMakeupOld DaysSpillsFamily MembersSupervisorsMakeup Artist Author:Jodie Foster
“"Dukes of Hazzard" or something you could, you know that, your work is going to be made up of that - episodic television shows. Not that I got many of them, but that was where I - but actually oddly enough though, they were teaching camera terminology at the same time in this acting class, so I actually was able to understand what rack focus and whip pan and all that stuff meant.” KnowsMadeEnoughShowsAbleStuffActingClassFocusTeachingTelevisionCamerasWhipsTelevision ShowsDukesRacksActing ClassesTerminologyDukes Of Hazzard Author:Quentin Tarantino
“When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.” InspirationalSilenceCreativityFocusPhotographyCamerasPhotographerPhotographConcentrationInadequateSelf ExpressionSnapshotsPhotography By PhotographersInspirational PhotographySilence SpeaksUnclearGreat PhotographyCamera And PhotographyInspiring PhotographyInspiring NatureLandscape PhotographyDigital PhotographyFilm PhotographyPhotography And FilmCapturing A Moment PhotographyPhotography And LightSilence And PeaceProfessional Photographer Author:Ansel Adams
“I trained like an animal, but the thing is focus and concentration. When the bell rings it's like when the little red light goes on over the camera. And I can usually nail my lines on the first or second take because I'm right there.” FirstsLittlesI CanLightLinesAnimalFocusGoes OnRedCamerasRingsConcentrationBellsNailsRed LightsFocus And Concentration Author:Mickey Rourke
“She was like a camera that had been chronically out of focus until someone came by and twisted the lenses into alignment.” FocusCamerasLensesTwistedAlignment Book:All Souls Trilogy Source: All Souls Trilogy
“The camera has always been a guide, and it's allowed me to see things and focus on things that maybe an average person wouldn't even notice.” PersonsFocusPhotographyCamerasPhotographerAverageGuidesAverage PersonPhotography By PhotographersInspirational PhotographyCamera And PhotographyCamera Lenses Author:Don Chadwick
“I start with no preconceived idea - discovery excites me to focus - then rediscovery through the lens - final form of presentation seen on ground glass, the finished print previsioned completely in every detail of texture, movement, proportion, before exposure - the shutter's release automatically and finally fixes my conception, allowing no after manipulation - the ultimate end, the print, is but a duplication of all that I saw and felt through my camera.” IdeasEndsFormFeltSawsFocusMovementPhotographyDiscoveryUltimateCamerasFinalsPhotographerGlassesDetailsFinishedReleaseProportionManipulationPrintAllowingConceptionLensesExposurePresentationTextureShuttersPreconceived IdeasRediscoveryDuplication Book:Edward Weston on photography Source: Edward Weston on photography
“You have to communicate on a much greater scale. With a camera, you can use the flick of an eye. On stage, a lot of other things are happening that can pull focus or energy. You're always thinking the same way, but you have to amplify your thoughts with the volume of your speech and the ways you use your whole body to communicate what you're feeling. It's a little bit different from film.” ThinkingWayLittlesDifferentWholeUseFeelingsBodyEyeFilmEnergyBitsGreaterFocusStageSpeechLittle BitHappeningsCamerasCommunicateScalesVolumeAlways ThinkingAmplifyThinking The Same Author:Jeremy Irons
“After I did nine years of a television series, I didn't want to do anything really that involved going to a set and being in front of a camera for quite a while. And when I did start to want to do things, I wanted to focus more on film.” WantYearsWantedFilmFocusFrontsTelevisionInvolvedCamerasSeriesNineNine Years Author:Gillian Anderson