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“Shame works like the zoom lens on a camera. When we are feeling shame, the camera is zoomed in tight and all we see is our flawed selves, alone and struggling.(page 68)”

Self Feelings Struggle Pages Shame Cameras Lenses Flawed Zoom

Author:Brené Brown

“If life were a camera, I'd have the lens cap on.”

Ifs Cameras Lenses Caps

Author:Charles M. Schulz

“She was like a camera that had been chronically out of focus until someone came by and twisted the lenses into alignment.”

Focus Cameras Lenses Twisted Alignment

Book:All Souls Trilogy

Source: All Souls Trilogy

“As soon as I look up, his eyes click onto my face. The breath whooshes out of my body and everything freezes for a second, as though I’m looking at him through my camera lens, zoomed in all the way, the world pausing for that tiny span of time between the opening and closing of the shutter.”

Source: Delirium: The Complete Collection: Delirium, Hana, Pandemonium, Annabel, Raven, Requiem

“Cameras are a lifesaver for very shy people who have nowhere else to hide. Behind a lens they can disguise the fact that they have nothing to say to strangers.”

People Facts Behinds Cameras Stranger Shy Disguise Lenses

Book:Beach Music

Source: Beach Music

“If the photographer is interested in the people in front of his lens, and if he is compassionate, it's already a lot. The instrument is not the camera but the photographer.”

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Author:Eve Arnold

“If I had stood at the free-throw line and thought about 10 million people watching me on the other side of the camera lens, I couldn't have made anything. So I mentally tried to put myself in a familiar place. I thought about all those times I shot free throws in practice and went through the same motion, the same technique that I had used thousands of times. You forget about the outcome. You know you are doing the right things. So you relax and perform.”

Source: I can't accept not trying: Michael Jordan on the pursuit of excellence

“If a photographer cares about the people before the lens and is compassionate, much is given. It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.”

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Book:The Unretouched Woman

Source: The Unretouched Woman

“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.”

Source: Edward Weston on photography

“My first priority when taking pictures is to achieve clarity. A good documentary photograph transmits the information of the situation with the utmost fidelity; achieving it means understanding the nuances of lighting and composition, and also remembering to keep the lenses clean and the cameras steady.”

“Give half a dozen men the same camera, lenses and plates, and send them to the same place to do the same thing, and all the results will be alike, or so nearly alike as to reveal the real mechanicalness of photography. Yet, curiously enough, this is just one of the most difficult things a photographer can be set to do, to exactly repeat himself, or another. He may use the identical apparatus, know the subject perfectly, and yet be totally unable to bring away an exact replica.”

“Cameras and lenses are simply tools to place our unique vision on film. Concentrate on equipment and you'll take technically good photographs. Concentrate on seeing the light's magic colors and your images will stir the soul.”

Soul Light Film Vision Seeing Magic Color Unique Tools Cameras Photograph Equipment Lenses Seeing The Light

Author:Jack Dykinga

“I have a thing with the camera. The lens is unconditional. It doesn't judge you.”

Judging Cameras Lenses Unconditional

Author:Debra Winger

“The difference between an amateur and a professional photographer is that the amateur thinks the camera does the work. And they treat the camera with a certain amount of reverence. It is all about the kind of lens you choose, the kind of film stock you use… exactly the sort of perfection of the camera. Whereas, the professional the real professional – treats the camera with unutterable disdain. They pick up the camera and sling it aside. Because they know it’s the eye and the brain that count, not the mechanism that gets between them and the subject that counts.”

“I've always had the utmost respect and awe of what the lens can do and what a director can do with just a camera move.”

Moving Can Do Directors Cameras Awe Lenses

Author:Matthew Gray Gubler