Working Notes: a commonplace notebook for recording & exploring ideas.
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"Compose the picture, and wait"
"Take a low angle"
"Look for maximum impact"
"Look for strong graphics"
"Keep the sun behind you"
"Bad weather makes good pictures"
"Setting first, subject second"
Elements of a good photograph "The photograph seems inevitable" "Harmony"
Micro-composition For it to rise up, and have a life. Look through the tiny details about clarity. "Nothing touches" Looks for the one element closing out the composition.
Macro-composition Overall, edge to edge, front to back content of the image; what you choose to photograph. Back to front Setting first, subject second.
Be wary of only assignments that are meaningful.
"I like to see life as it gives me, and not arrange"
Good picture: "stopped and gave it my attention"
A few feet of height will make everything better
"It's that one thing that gives life to the photograph"
Get to know sections of a place and wait.
Taking photos from the back doesn't invade their space.
"The photograph that will have a long life will not be able to be memorized."
It has to be right in the camera to be photography.
"Perfection is not the dieal: Goodness, Justness, is the ideal."
Link a still life and a landscape to give them life.
"Improvement is not photography, seeing is photography"
"Photography is about seeing and being in life"
Layering
Relying on internal framing
Look /through/ surfaces
Misc He's 73 years old.
— Kunal