Yann Arthus-Bertrand Quotes

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

DSLRs take beautiful pictures, but they are hard to focus.

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

With light field technology, there is a huge opportunity for creativity in photography that hasn't been available in the past.

My close-up was magnificent!

If your pictures are not good enough, it’s because you are not close enough.

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.

As an avid photographer, I also took advantage of the latest technology in photography - digital photography - to post photos on my website on a daily basis.

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.

I've always been intimidated by the technicalities of taking photos, especially with a film camera - not just a point and shoot.

Be sure to take the lens cap off before photographing.

I love photography, and I love the art of photography.

Your camera is the best critic there is. Critics never see as much as the camera does. It is more perceptive than the human eye.

I shoot with a Canon 5D Mark III.

It's usually so fraught when you're taking a picture. I work with an 8-by-10 view camera and there's a, you know, hood that I put over my head, and it's tricky and complicated.

I think the camera is a wonderful machine, don't you? And not to take photographs in this century is crazy.

It gives you more freedom, the digital camera.

I've always shot on film, but the times are changing.

Because it's free, easy to use, and high-quality, photography is now a fixture in our daily lives - something we take for granted.

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

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 bought all the stuff, but nothing was as satisfying to me as using the Rolleiflex because it was one shot.

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.

Modern technology has taken the angst out of achieving the perfect shot. For me, the only thing that counts is the idea behind the image: what you want to see and what you're trying to say. The idea is crucial. You have to think of something you want to say and expand upon it.