Sam Abell 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 felt like I was in the best photography school in the world - I had Herb Ritts, Bruce Weber, Richard Avedon and Irving Penn teach me.

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

The thing about photography is, some people surround themselves with extremely strong subject matter. And unless you're a moron, you're going to get a really strong photograph.

I definitely take a lot of bad pictures!

I'd go down to the end of my street, to a garage that had a certain feeling about it, or a particular light; I'd take a picture of a friend who needed a head shot. That's how I learned, instead of having school assignments and learning camera techniques.

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

I fight to take a good photograph every single time.

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

I always wanted to be a photographer. While I was at school, I got a lab-monkey holiday job in the darkrooms at the 'Independent.' What they taught me there was: you need to get the whole story in one frame.

I am a very keen photographer. I have enjoyed taking pictures since I was a kid with my family, but I became more serious about it at university.

From the beginning, the camera and I were great friends. It loves me, and I love it.

I'm no snapshot artist. I make very careful choices always, even if I'm using a 35mm camera.

It ain't the picture and it ain't the camera - it's the operator.

My idea of a good picture is one that's in focus and of a famous person.

Photography, for me, is something I can control fully. It's wholly my own expressions.

My blog is actually all self-photography unless it's a photo shoot.

If I take enough pictures, I'm going to get a good one, and I know not to stop at a bad one.

Sometimes I'm amazed by how much you can do as a photographer.

I can tell you what I personally use a camera for. Basically, it is to record a moment. A moment that is vital to give the viewer a sensation of liveliness, sadness, joy and so on.

I never claimed to be a great photographer.

I take a lot of pride in my photography.

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.

Essentially, in photography, I think on two levels: one emotional and the other technical. The emotional impact has to do with looking for something dramatic happening in the photograph, something that reaches out and touches somebody in some way. And the technical is having to do with composition and framing - light and dark, light and shadow.

Which is my best picture? The one I will do tomorrow.