“A visual understanding of great composition and how to use a camera and expensive lenses can be learned, but drive and a real hunger for making photos and telling stories... I don't think that part can be learned. You either have that inside, or you don't.” ThinkingRealStoriesUseUnderstandingCamerasHungerVisualsExpensiveCompositionLensesTelling StoriesCamera Lenses Author:Aaron Huey
“I'm sure I cause just as much consternation for editors as any other actor, but it definitely makes me feel more comfortable understanding how and why all the different camera setups exist.” FeelsDifferentActorsCausesUnderstandingComfortableCamerasEditorsSetupsConsternation Author:Ed Helms
“With non-professionals, there's a lot of time you have to allocate to getting what you want with them, but also you cast based on who they are, to bring out their real personalities. So it's less about working on character and more about just getting them comfortable in front of the camera to be themselves, and understanding the process.” WantRealCharacterProcessUnderstandingFrontsPersonalityComfortableCamerasCastsWhat You WantGetting What You Want Author:Charles Burnett
“I never considered myself a good photographer. I still don't. I thought of myself as a hard worker. My camera was a sponge and I had an instinct that athletes have - anticipation. Photography really represents an enormous amount of anticipation - understanding what might be there the next moment and being prepared for it.” StillsHardMomentsMightNextUnderstandingHard WorkAmountPhotographyCamerasPreparedInstinctWorkersPhotographerAthleteEnormousAnticipationSpongesHard Worker Author:Lawrence Schiller
“My mom had bought this camera to take classes herself and I remember working with her on it, understanding how the stop-motion [worked], having a high shutter speed and things like that. Long before I picked it up myself, I remember being on a slide at a country club going into the water and wanting my mother to put in on a high shutter speed so she could catch me on the slide without it being blurred. I remember having fun with her: "Let me go on the slide and you'll catch me in motion!" Those are some of the little moments in my artistic making.” LittlesLongCountryMomentsRememberMotherFunUnderstandingWaterClassMomGoes OnLet MeCamerasClubsMy MomSpeedArtisticHaving FunSlidesLet Me GoShuttersCatch MeCountry ClubsLittle Moments Author:Jeff Vespa
“I'm completely at ease on a set. I'm pretty comfortable most places, but hitting the mark and knowing set etiquette and understanding cameras and lenses are second nature. It's a language I've spoken for years.” YearsLanguageUnderstandingKnowingComfortableMarkCamerasEaseHittingLensesEtiquette Author:Zoe Bell
“Photography, precisely because it can only be produced in the present and because it is based on what exists objectively before the camera, takes its place as the most satisfactory medium for registering objective life in all its aspects, and from this comes its documental value. If to this is added sensibility and understanding and, above all, a clear orientation as to the place it should have in the field of historical development, I believe that the result is something worthy of a place in social production, to which we should all contribute.” IfsShouldBelieveValuesI BelieveSocialUnderstandingResultsClearFieldsDevelopmentPhotographyAspectShould HaveCamerasHistoricalProductionsWorthyObjectivesMediumsSensibilityOrientation Author:Tina Modotti
“If you're tracking with a character that's running off a thing and diving off, I would leave the camera there and not follow them down, because cameras don't do that. The audience understands that. I'll definitely bring that understanding of keeping things a bit more grounded.” IfsCharacterRunningBitsUnderstandingAudienceCamerasGroundedDivingTracking Author:Taika Waititi
“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.” FirstsMeanRememberUnderstandingSituationAchieveInformationPhotographyCamerasCleanPhotographerPhotographPrioritiesClaritySteadyCompositionDocumentariesLensesFidelityLightingNuanceTransmitTaking Pictures Author:Sam Abell
“I'm a photographer, obviously. My chosen tool for understanding life, and communicating the results of this search to others, is the camera.” UnderstandingResultsPhotographyToolsCamerasPhotographerCommunicateChosenUnderstanding Life Author:David Hurn