The fact is that relatively few photographers ever master their medium. Instead they allow the medium to master them and go on an endless squirrel cage chase from new lens to new paper to new developer to new gadget, never staying with one piece of equipment long enough to learn its full capacities, becoming lost in a maze of technical information that is of little or no use since they don't know what to do with it.
The camera sees more than the eye, so why not make use of it? - Edward Weston
The camera sees more than the eye, so why not make use of it?
- Edward Weston
Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable it my be. - Edward Weston
Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable it my be.
A lifetime can well be spent correcting and improving one's own faults without bothering about others. - Edward Weston
A lifetime can well be spent correcting and improving one's own faults without bothering about others.
Dare to be irrational! - keep free from formulas, open to any fresh impulse, fluid. - Edward Weston
Dare to be irrational! - keep free from formulas, open to any fresh impulse, fluid.
If I have any 'message' worth giving to a beginner it is that there are no short cuts in photography. - Edward Weston
If I have any 'message' worth giving to a beginner it is that there are no short cuts in photography.
Good composition is merely the strongest way of seeing. - Edward Weston
Good composition is merely the strongest way of seeing.
I would say to any artist: Don't be repressed in your work, dare to experiment, consider any urge, if in a new direction all the better. - Edward Weston
I would say to any artist: Don't be repressed in your work, dare to experiment, consider any urge, if in a new direction all the better.
I see no reason for recording the obvious. - Edward Weston
I see no reason for recording the obvious.
Ultimately success or failure in photographing people depends on the photographer's ability to understand his fellow man. - Edward Weston
Ultimately success or failure in photographing people depends on the photographer's ability to understand his fellow man.
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