"A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed."
- Ansel Adams
**ps: "My First Roll".. coming soon..
Showing posts with label photo quotes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label photo quotes. Show all posts
Street Photography | The Face
© Safuan Shahril | Street Photography | Domino was Alive
"A photograph can look any way"
-Garry Winogrand
Street Photography | Chasing the Light
© Safuan Shahril | Street Photography | Spot Light
"(Art) is both the taking and giving of beauty; the turning out to the light the inner folds of the awareness of the spirit. It is the recreation on another plane of the realities of the world."
- Ansel Adams
Street Photography | The "U" Turn
© Safuan Shahril | Street Photography | The "U" Turn
"Every photograph is a battle of form versus content."
- Garry Winogrand
Street Photography | Double Visions
© Safuan Shahril | Street Photography | Double Visions
"Photography is not about the thing photographed. It is about how that thing looks photographed."
- Garry Winogrand
Street Photography | Rhythm
© Safuan Shahril | Street Photography | Rhythm, Shapes, Lines
"This recognition, in real life, of a rhythm of surfaces, lines, and values is for me the essence of photography; composition should be a constant of preoccupation, being a simultaneous coalition – an organic coordination of visual elements."
- Henri Cartier-Bresson
- Henri Cartier-Bresson
Street Photography | London Eye
© 2011 Safuan Shahril | Street Photography | London Eye
"Pictures, regardless of how they are created and recreated, are intended to be looked at. This brings to the forefront not the technology of imaging, which of course is important, but rather what we might call the eyenology (seeing)."
- Henri Cartier-Bresson
Photography Tips | Improve your Photography
"Your First 10,000 photographs are your worst" - Henri Cartier-Bresson
See the quote above? Probably one of the most famous photography quotes of all time. You would probably understand straight away the quote when you first time read it and is it true? You decide. I started my photography nearly about two years ago and a lot has pretty change based on my skills of taking photos. Some people they don't' have the natural instinct to take photographs nicely first time. They would probably tent to say the camera does it's job but I totally disagree with the statement because "it's not the camera but the person behind the camera". The fact that YOU control the camera and shoot the photographs, you are the one that makes the photographs happen. I mean 2 years ago I entered a photography competition with my school by just using a
small Nikon point and shoot camera and the last thing you know it you realized that you were able to learn new things by just using a point and shoot camera. It's not about expensive equipments. It's not about having the best camera in the world if you can't understand how to make photographs properly. But experience and skill is key of making a photograph happen. I'm just going to list down 5 things that you can improve your photography skills:-
Street Photography | The Decisive Moment
© Safuan Shahril | Street Photography | The Moment
"Think about the photo before and after, never during.
The secret is to take your time. You mustn't go too fast.
The subject must forget about you. Then, however, you must be very quick."
-Henri Cartier-Bresson-
Street Photography | Monument
© Safuan Shahril | Urban Landscape | Bristol's Old Market
"A desire arises in the mind. It is satisfied immediately another comes. In the interval which separates two desires a perfect calm reigns in the mind. It is at this moment freed from all thought, love or hate. Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves."
(Sivananda)
Street Photography | Life
"Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think."
Martin Luther King, Jr
Eid Mubarak
© Safuan Shahril | Eid Mubarak | Prayer
"In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart"
(Mahatma Gandhi)
Landscape Photography | The Beauty
© Safuan Shahril | Exmoor | The Valley of Rocks
"All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God"
School
© Safuan Shahril | Education
"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."
Crying Sky
© Safuan Shahril | Rain Rain Rain!
"Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky."
Trust
"You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough"
