Sally Mann Quotes

Photography is pretty simple stuff. You just react to what you see, and take many, many pictures.

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

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

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

I shoot with a Canon 5D Mark III.

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.

And I'm a pretty avid photographer, I've been into photography for years now, so I try to spend some of my free time with that.

Photography used to be not for the faint of heart. Its rigors would weed out the not-so-committed pretty quickly. You had to crank the f-stop ring yourself!

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

My close-up was magnificent!

I like to know where the camera is.

I don't really know how to work a camera.

Be sure to take the lens cap off before photographing.

Painting, drawing - I'm really into photography, I've done it since high school.

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.

The first thing I do is take Polaroids of the sitter - 10 or 12 color Polaroids and eight or 10 black-and whites.

I take my camera to shoots and ask all the photographers and assistants to show me what to do with it.

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

I would like to become a better photographer. I'm working on that.

I've grown up around people who love photography, and I think from being photographed for so long, I always wanted to understand how it worked, and I've been fortunate enough to be photographed by some really wonderful photographers, and so I learnt a lot from them, and I always ask them questions.

I am a huge obsessor with photography.

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

I became involved in photography when I was about thirteen years old.

Photography is about light and what it does and how it is captured on a piece of negative.