David Hewson Quotes

In the early days of picture-taking, the exposure shutter had to stay open for a long time, so you had to stay really still.

For low light, all the light rays participate. We're using all the light coming through a large aperture to make a picture with a large depth of field - totally impossible with a conventional camera.

That's why I like fast film. It gives you more freedom to light more naturally.

Basically, with a regular camera, you have to take time or allow the camera to focus before you take the shot.

My close-up was magnificent!

I like to know where the camera is.

Be sure to take the lens cap off before photographing.

Photography has always been about capturing light.

I have a low-tech camera with one lens that I've shot everything in my life on. My subjects and my subject matter sometimes really are powerful, and so my job is to get it into focus.

It gives you more freedom, the digital camera.

Digital imaging is as much about chemistry as it is about semiconductors.

I'm not a photographer, so I didn't get into F-stops or ND filters or background, foreground, cross-light, all that stuff. But I was interested in the camera and the lenses. That's the world that I'm moving in, in terms of acting and giving a performance.

Photography is the simplest thing in the world, but it is incredibly complicated to make it really work.

A good daguerreotype was as perfect a kind of photograph as was ever made.

I think technology has advanced so far now that there are some cameras on the market that give film a run for its money. It's all about flexibility in capturing images, and digital or film, it doesn't matter to me.

Flash photography can be horrible. In the hands of an expert who knows how to bounce all that searing bright light in the right direction, it may make an impossible picture workable.

I like having the digital camera on my smart phone, but I also like having a dedicated camera for when I want to take real pictures.

I've been working with photography for many years.

I became interested in photography when I found my own sketching was inadequate.

The length of exposure (one minute in sunlight) is still too long for the portrait. It was fifteen minutes when I first began my work. Progress may continue.

I've learned to create a palette, a vocabulary of ways to take pictures.

Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.

The world just does not fit conveniently into the format of a 35mm camera.

I don't know why my pictures come out looking so good. I just don't get it.

I love the luxury of the camera. The camera does so much for you. I like the secrets a camera can tell.