Martin Parr Quotes

If you can make a color show or movie seem like it's in black-and-white, then you've done a really good job.

I try to keep my filters simple. I don't do anything major to my photos.

I've always been into taking my photos, cropping them square, putting them through a filter in Photoshop.

Sometimes, cameras can't capture a scene like your brain does. But the use of apps can help get it just a little closer to reality.

Using the correct apps can completely change how your photos look. It's really exciting because once you've already taken a good photo, it can become 10 times better if you use the right combination of apps. My favorites are VSCO Cam, Afterlight, Facetune and SKRWT.

Photoshop makes things look beautiful just as you have special effects in movies. It's just a part of life.

I love retouching images on Photoshop.

You have a negative, and you can have an influence whether you want to have it more contrasty or less contrasty; you can pre-flash the photo paper. You can make it warmer or colder, lighter, darker. This is all a way of manipulating the image in a normal way, not changing the pixels.

Nowadays, people shoot digitally and it's all in color, but you press a button and it all goes to black and white. But it's not lit for black and white. So, it's a tricky thing. If you're going do black and white, you better remember to separate things with light, because color ain't gonna be there.

Every time I take a photo, it goes into SnapSeed. Even if it's just a price tag on something, it still goes into SnapSeed, and I start editing it. I'm not a photographer, so I need all the help I can get when it comes to make a picture look cool.

When images are in black and white, they seem timeless. When you see Carrie Otis in an ad from 1989 next to an ad with Klara Wester from 2009, you don't see a 20-year difference between the pictures.

Sometimes I'll use four or five different photo apps on one photo just to get it where I want it to be.

The job of the color photographer is to provide some level of abstraction that can take the image out of the daily.

We also have the option of scanning in an image from outside the computer... a photo, or a sketch done with traditional tools; and we can then paint, manipulate, process, change, and further develop the image within the computer, watching our progress on the monitor.

Sometimes in news photography and so on, the pictures are a little bit dry, and put on the page and just set in a journalistic way in front of you.

A film that is bleached tends to have a more realistic quality.

The whole series is black-and-white, so when I went to shoot one of the women I only had black-and-white film with me. She had reddish hair and was a very pretty girl, a nice girl.

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

I'm not a photographer, so I need all the help I can get when it comes to make a picture look cool.

With the black and white films, one was concerned with tone.

Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.

Black-and-white always looks modern, whatever that word means.

I'm constantly working on these edges of photography, either to employ so much information or reduce information to the point of collapse.

I don't do a lot of editing post-shoot, but I use Lightroom to play with contrast and texture and to remove dust.

Often if a picture is in trouble one way or another, there are ways to salvage it, through reshoots or whatever.