Photography Quote #1
“The golden rule is work fast. As for framing, composition, focus – this is no time to start asking yourself questions: you just have to trust your intuition and the sharpness of your reflexes.”
– Jacques-Henri Lartigue, 1894-1986
I find this to be true... to an extent. You must first put many hours and hours of conscious, active study into such photography principals as framing, composition and focus. Then to practice them, over and over. To make thousands of good images, and thousands of bad images. And to learn to see what separates them. Only then can intuition carry you. Then when you want to make an image, if you only have a fleeting moment, all of those principals must be second nature.
– Jacques-Henri Lartigue, 1894-1986
I find this to be true... to an extent. You must first put many hours and hours of conscious, active study into such photography principals as framing, composition and focus. Then to practice them, over and over. To make thousands of good images, and thousands of bad images. And to learn to see what separates them. Only then can intuition carry you. Then when you want to make an image, if you only have a fleeting moment, all of those principals must be second nature.
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