Photography Basics Quotes

Be sure to take the lens cap off before photographing.

I was 24 years old at the time. I had no real notion of what photography was about. I had no training. By accident, I put a negative in an enlarger, and you can do many things with that negative.

The problem for me is that I've never actually studied photography, so it's quite a steep learning curve. Cameras these days do so much for you automatically but I still think there's a point where you should actually know the technical side.

If I have any 'message' worth giving to a beginner it is that there are no short cuts in photography.

Expensive gear helps for night shots, but I wouldn't recommend beginners overspend on a camera.

Why do we use flash at all? Because photography is not the same as eyesight. We can see in low-light situations where cameras, dependent upon a physical process to record visual information, are half blind.

When you hand someone a camera, why do they act like you just asked them to dissemble a bomb? They take it and they're like, 'What do I do ... I don't really ... ha-huh ...' Yeah, it's the button on the top right where it always is since the beginning of #*@! time!

When I first started learning how to take photographs, you had to spend the first six months figuring out what an f-stop was. Now you just go and take pictures.

I can't stress enough how unimportant the camera really is. Any brand of camera will do. For 95% of my shots, the lowest end DSLR will be just fine.

Look at lots of exhibitions and books, and don't get hung up on cameras and technical things. Photography is about images.

What you photograph is responsible for how a photograph looks - the form, the design, whatever word you want to use.

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