Connor Franta Quotes

I'm just interested in what makes a photograph.

A photographer must choose a palette as painters choose theirs.

I love a well composed shot. It doesn't necessarily have to be beautiful, but it must be well composed.

A good photograph is knowing where to stand.

Contrast is what makes photography interesting.

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

I always think, 'What does this picture mean? What's the best place to put my camera? Do I have anything extra in the picture, things in the background that will distract? Am I in the basic position that will give the essential things for this picture but not too much?'

The really simple approach to photography is a great balance to making the films.

There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.

My quest, through the magic of light and shadow, is to isolate, to simplify, and to give emphasis to form with the greatest clarity.

When I take a picture I take 10 percent of what I see.

In my photography, color and composition are inseparable. I see in color.

I want to seduce my viewers and be able to hold them with the work. Much of that is done in terms of formalist ideas that I bring to the work.

In things to be seen at once, much variety makes confusion, another vice of beauty. In things that are not seen at once, and have no respect one to another, great variety is commendable, provided this variety transgress not the rules of optics and geometry.

In everything I do, the aesthetics are driven by the emotion. However I can do that with a camera, whether it's a long lens or a wide lens, I'll do.

You start blocking out things, and that's a really important part of taking a picture is the ability to isolate what you're - what you're concentrating on.

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.'

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 like form and shape and strength in pictures.

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

By appreciating the darkness when you design the light, you create much more interesting environments that truly enhance our lives.

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

I am very much aware of the visual side of things. I do a lot of photography. I often take Polaroids of things that strike me as visually interesting, just to remember them and perhaps use later.

I'm not an artist. I set the camera up and tell my story.

I know that if I were to take ugly photographs, no one would be interested in looking at them.