Capturing Light Quotes

Light makes photography. Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.

Light field photography unleashes the power of the light, to forever change how everyone takes and experiences pictures.

You’ve gotta taste the light, like my friend and fellow shooter Chip Maury says. And when you see light like this, trust me, it’s like a strawberry sundae with sprinkles.

My inspiration has always been photography's ability to stop time and reveal what the naked eye cannot see.

Photographs aren't accounts of scrutiny. The shutter is open for a fraction of a second.

'Woman on the Plaza,' with its distinct horizon, snow-like surfaces, wintry wall, stunning sunlight, sharp shadows, and hurrying figure, would become the most biographical of my photographs - an abstract image of the landscape and life of northern Ohio where I grew up and first practiced photography.

Why did I hesitate to put all this glory of the sun on my canvas?

Essentially what photography is is life lit up.

All I need is a camera and I'll make things happen.

One day Boudin said to me, 'Learn to draw well and appreciate the sea, the light, the blue sky.' I took his advice.

I'm a street photographer, but I'm interested in any ironic, whimsical images, and there's something very romantic about a circus.

I haven't yet managed to capture the colour of this landscape; there are moments when I'm appalled at the colours I'm having to use, I'm afraid what I'm doing is just dreadful and yet I really am understating it; the light is simply terrifying.

The nature of photography has always resisted that temptation of interpretation. I look, and what I see looks back at me.

I've decided that what interests me most is that you can only capture the light at a certain time. But after that, five minutes after that, then it's a different thing. So if you don't have the right aperture, you've missed it. Of course, you can correct it in the lab. But not really.