W. Eugene Smith Quotes

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

For low light, all the light rays participate. We're using all the light coming through a large aperture to make a picture with a large depth of field - totally impossible with a conventional camera.

There are a thousand ways to point a camera, but really only one.

We like to think we can solve everything, but we can't always.

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

My lens of choice was always the 35 mm. It was more environmental. You can't come in closer with the 35 mm.

I like to know where the camera is.

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

I love the luxury of the camera. The camera does so much for you. I like the secrets a camera can tell.

My dad had been an ardent amateur photographer, and he taught me to compose a photograph from the back to the front, and then populate the picture.

My father taught me photography. It was his hobby, and we had a small darkroom in the fruit cellar of our basement. It was the kind of makeshift darkroom that was only dark at night.

In the early days of picture-taking, the exposure shutter had to stay open for a long time, so you had to stay really still.

When you're shooting with long lenses, even if you're shooting a close-up, you feel the air, the distance between the camera and the subject.

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

It's hubris to think that the way we see things is everything there is.

Photography has always been about capturing light.

I shoot with a Canon 5D Mark III.

A small lens gives you a very specific look. You don't have a shallow depth of field.

...everything looks worse in black and white.

Nobody ever sees truth except in fragments.

With five feeble senses we pretend to comprehend the boundlessly complex cosmos, yet other beings with wider, stronger, or different range of senses might not only see very differently the things we see, but might see and study whole worlds of matter, energy, and life which lie close at hand yet can never be detected with the senses we have.

The mirror is the tool of the one who wants to do a self-portrait. And if you want to make a photo you need a mirror.

As far as digital technology has come, there's still one thing that digital cameras won't do: give you perfect color every time. In fact, if they gave us perfect color 50% of the time, that would be incredible, but unfortunately every digital camera (and every scanner that captures traditional photos) sneaks in some kind of color cast in your image. Generally, it's a red cast, but depending on the camera, it could be blue. Either way, you can be pretty sure-there's a cast.

I like digital cameras, because they enable you to reminisce immediately.

Fish say, they have their Stream and Pond; But is there anything Beyond?