Joanna Lumley Quotes

It's just about going out and getting the shot, so I have a great understanding of how to execute it, so that really helps me, and also having a good understanding of all the action that I'm shooting, it helps me in determining how I'm going to capture it.

I played around with the flowers and the lighting, so that was a good way to educate myself.

I find great lighting and a squint of the eyes makes anyone look better.

The most difficult thing for me is a portrait. You have to try and put your camera between the skin of a person and his shirt.

The best photographers know how to light any color skin.

We forget just how painfully dim the world was before electricity. A candle, a good candle, provides barely a hundredth of the illumination of a single 100 watt light bulb.

What I end up shooting is the situation. I shoot the composition and my subject is going to help the composition or not.

I'm just interested in what makes a photograph.

For me, taking photographs is such a tortured process. I'm always feeling like I'm not getting enough: I'm in the wrong place, the light isn't good, the subject's not comfortable.

Strip makeup lights just don't give you a fighting chance no matter how good looking you are. Light sconces that flank the mirror illuminate your entire face evenly.

The problem is I'm not a good photographer. To be perfectly honest, I'm too shy. Not aggressive enough. Well, I'm not aggressive at all. I just loved to see wonderfully dressed women, and I still do. That's all there is to it.

We're trying to get good pictures. Don't worry very much about what I say.

A good photograph is knowing where to stand.

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 fight to take a good photograph every single time.

With photography, I always think that it's not good enough.

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

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

On the personal side, I was rock climbing and taking pictures with my friends. We took all sorts of portrait and action pictures, and I was thinking at the time that these are inherently difficult to focus correctly.

There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.

I always loved bulbs, and I use light a lot in my shows. In my office in Paris, I have 300 bulbs.

It's good that everyone has an opportunity to take pictures, the chance to be a photographer. Some are good, too. But the bad thing is that it's very, very difficult to take a great picture. Everyone can take a good picture - even a child - but it's hard to make a great one.

My wife Mariana is a good photographer too and, like me, she just picks up a camera and takes a picture when she sees something, rather than looking too deeply into it.

A good photographer can make you look incredible, even when you're not feeling very sexy.

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