Graeme Le Saux Quotes

Digital photography makes you a better photographer.

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

Now, my knowledge of photography was terribly limited.

I never really learned photography.

I am a big fan of photography, more of being behind the camera - so when I get the opportunity to work with such great photographers, I always try and learn from their technique.

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

I am a huge obsessor with photography.

I had been teaching myself photography.

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

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

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

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

I wish I were a really good photographer.

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.

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 enjoy photography. It's a lot of fun. It keeps me on my P's and Q's and, when you think about it, most people think photography is just going to a game. But you start to think, dang, that would be a good picture. Or you're driving along and see something and think, 'that would be nice.'

I never read about photography.

I was 24 years old at the time. I had no real notion of what photography was about. I had no training. By accident, I put a negative in an enlarger, and you can do many things with that negative.

When I first started learning how to take photographs, you had to spend the first six months figuring out what an f-stop was. Now you just go and take pictures.

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

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

Photography has always been a passion of mine, but I began to study light field photography when I was in the Ph.D. program at Stanford University.

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.

I never stopped photographing. There were a couple of years when I didn't have a darkroom, but that didn't stop me from photographing.

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.