Photo Processing Quotes

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

In Bosnia, there are no 35mm cameras. There are no film labs.

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

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.

I develop my own film. And I work in spurts. I pile it up.

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.

I don't think there's a Photoshop professional out there that doesn't owe a significant chunk of their expertise - and a big debt of gratitude - to Bruce Fraser. He almost single-handedly shaped the way we work with color, how we process RAW images in Photoshop, and even how we sharpen our photos.

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

Yes, sir, I was in the processing room watching them actually process the film.

The series of photographic operations, developing, washing, final drying, takes about quarter of an hour.

Some of the people who are now manipulating photos, such as Andreas Gursky, make the argument - rightly - that the 'straight' photographs of the 1940s and 50s were no such thing. Ansell Adams would slap a red filter on his lens, then spend three days burning and dodging in the dark room, making his prints. That's a manipulation. Even the photographs of Henri Cartier-Bresson, with all due respect to him, are notoriously burned and dodged.

Most of these pictures, taken while travelling, were developed on the mantelpiece of a hotel room, which proves that the method is easy enough to carry out.

Mama, don't take my Kodachrome away.

WhenIWasYourAge: It took a week to learn whether your photos came out okay.

Yes, sir, a patrol car came and took me down to a station where they were trying to develop films, but they hadn't got the facilities to develop colored film.