Photographic maxims and sayings?

[cyrus]

Can you give me some examples of photographic maxims or sayings?

"F/8 and be there!"

"Expose for shadows, develop for highlights"

"The best lens is a good tripod"

etc. etc.?

Any more?

[CG]

Sunny sixteen.

If it isn't a hundred yards from the road it isn't photogenic.

[Mark Sawyer]

"There's nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy idea."

"There is no such thing as inaccuracy in a photograph. All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth."

"Tri-X? We don't need no stinking Tri-X!"

[cyrus]

"There's nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy idea."

"There is no such thing as inaccuracy in a photograph. All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth."


OK - let me add: no quotes about / by photographers used endlessly on mugs and teeshirts.

[Daniel_Buck]

Here's my favorite one! Not sure who this quote is from, but I've always loved it!

"Take nothing but pictures, leave nothing but foot prints."

[Leonard Metcalf]

"The best zoom lens is your legs."

"Get in close"

"What is the subject?"

"When you see a photographic opportunity take the photograph, rather than put it off for another time."

"When the weather is bad, go out there and capture it."

"Any camera is better than no camera."

[Emmanuel BIGLER]

"I do not want to choose between a wood-field and a metal-monorail, I take both"
"I do not want to choose between a Schneider and a Rodenstock, I take both"

[Emmanuel BIGLER]

About reciprocity failure :
"the more you expose, the less you expose"

[Emmanuel BIGLER]

"The most useful lab accessory for the demanding photographer is a trash-bin".

[Joe Lipka]

Can you give me some examples of photographic maxims or sayings?

"F/8 and be there!"



This is the large format forum, buddy.

It's "f/64 and be there an hour early."

:D

[Bruce Barlow]

"Don't be mechanical when you should be creative, and vice versa."

"Once you've framed the picture you want, turn around and see if there's something better behind you."

"Focus with your feet." (old Polaroid marketing pitch)

[Daniel Grenier]

Focus the mind first, then the camera.

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

Film is dead. Long live film.

My wife talks too much You can't shutter up ! (oooopppps wrong category)

[Steven Barall]

"Expose yourself."

[cyrus]

This is the large format forum, buddy.

It's "f/64 and be there an hour early."

:D

Oh so true! Except for LF press cameras.

[Ralph Barker]

Oh so true! Except for LF press cameras.

And the Gowland 8x10 twin-lens reflex. ;)

[Anupam]

Film is dead. I shot it this morning.

[Brian Ellis]

"Photography is 90% drudgery and 10% Christmas." John Sexton

[Bill_1856]

If your pictures aren't good enough, then you're not close enough -- Capa.

[photographs42]

The grass is always grayer on the other side of the fence.

Jerome

[BrianShaw]

Smile!

Say CHEESE!

Look like you're enjoying yourself!

[Thomas Greutmann]

Photography is easy. Anybody who can see can take photos. It just sometimes takes very long to learn how to see.

[Ernest Purdum]

O know a very common one, but it isn't fit to put up here.

[Glenn Weber]

My old mentor Bob McCullough used to say, "Now that I no longer do my own printing, I feel free to shoot into windows."

[D. Bryant]

Can you give me some examples of photographic maxims or sayings?

"F/8 and be there!"

"Expose for shadows, develop for highlights"

"The best lens is a good tripod"

etc. etc.?

Any more?

You can find a ton of them here:

http://www.photoquotes.com/

Don Bryant

[Hollis]

"When is lunch" (commercial shoots)

[butterflydream]

Photography is haiku. - Tomatsu Shomei

[John Kasaian]

"Don't hold in farts. They'll travel up your spine and into your brain and thats where shitty ideas come from."---Fr. Erik

Maybe not a photographic maxim, but it could be applicable, couldn't it? :)

[vann webb]

The four Fs. Frame, Focus, Filter, Fstop.

[adrian tyler]

good is good, great is better.

[Daniel_Buck]

"fix it in post" applies to both photography, and films

[Gary L. Quay]

"Has anyone seen my financial solvency? It's lost. The last place I saw it was in my favorite camera store."

--Gary

[wfwhitaker]

http://www.tedorland.com/truths.html

[Preston]

"Mother told me there would be days like this."

-P

[Maris Rusis]

Always photograph FAST: Focus, Aperture, Shutter, Think!

[Hugo Zhang]

"Close your eyes and see."