Juergen Teller Quotes

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

Even the photographs of Henri Cartier-Bresson, with all due respect to him, are notoriously burned and dodged.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

You can't shoot in sepia, so converting into black and white and then into brown makes everything feel less real.

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

My style is in the 21st century. If you look at the process, it goes from photography through Photoshop, where certain features are heightened, elements of the photo are diminished. There is no sense of truth when you're looking at the painting or the photo or that moment when the photo was first taken.

I used to touch up my pictures on the computer and send them to friends. I would change colours, the design, and stuff like that.

You can hardly turn around and not see something that was done in Photoshop.

There's no image we can't improve.

I've been a photographer all these years... I haven't been in my own darkroom for 10 years.

Digital photography and Photoshop have made it very easy for people to take pictures. It's a medium that allows a lot of mediocre stuff to get through.

If you think about all the light that enters - that enters the lens of a camera, that's much more than a photo. The light field is all the higher-dimensional information that's lost in a regular photo. When we record all this information, that provides us the opportunity in software after the fact.

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.

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

When I started out, it was considered very wrong to change an image. There were scandals if someone inserted a sky into a war picture or something. Now it's all about that.

Keep in mind that there are computers, that do touch things up. Like when I got a hold of the poster for 'Gold Diggers,' I said: 'Hey, wait a minute! Those aren't my teeth!'

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

I've found even after nearly 30 years of doing this, there are all kinds of new surprises that rear their heads at various times and I truly believe that 51% of the images, success takes place in the darkroom.

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

I love retouching images on Photoshop.