Digital Photography Quotes

On digital photography: It's fantastic, but it's not a freebie for anything. You still have to have this (he points to his eyes), and this (points to his heart), and feet.

I don't think that digital photography is romantic yet. It's not sympathetic the way that film is.

The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion.

I never have taken a picture I've intended. They're always better or worse.

A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.

I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them.

Digital photography and Photoshop have made it very easy for people to take pictures. It's a medium that allows a lot of mediocre stuff to get through.

Digital [photography] has sped up the process to a point that it's a bit self-destructive. It is like driving by a new neighborhood without stopping for a walk. Special discoveries need time.

I'm not against digital photography. It's great for newspapers. And there are photographers doing great work digitally. When they use Photoshop as a darkroom tool, that's fine, too. But at this point of my life, after so many years, I don't really want to change, and I still love film.

I don't like explosions. I don't mind progress. But digital photography has made every man, woman, child and chimpanzee a photographer of sorts and consequently has numbed down the general quality of photographs.

A good photograph is one that communicates a fact, touches the heart and leaves the viewer a changed person for having seen it. It is, in a word, effective.

Here’s a current example of the challenge we face. At the height of its power, the photography company Kodak employed more than 140,000 people and was worth $28 billion. They even invented the first digital camera. But today Kodak is bankrupt, and the new face of digital photography has become Instagram. When Instagram was sold to Facebook for a billion dollars in 2012, it employed only thirteen people. Where did all those jobs disappear to? And what happened to the wealth that all those middle-class jobs created?

For example, Michael Mann's film Collateral - there is certain kinds of stories that lend themselves to digital photography. Some things are very raw stories that digital photography kind of lends itself to.

It's one thing to make a picture of what a person looks like, it's another thing to make a portrait of who they are.

This is the same problem I have with digital photography. The potential is always remarkable. But the medium never settles. Each year there is a better camera to buy and new software to download. The user never has time to become comfortable with the tool. Consequently too much of the work is merely about the technology. The HDR and QTVR fads are good examples. Instead of focusing on the subject, users obsess over RAW conversion, Photoshop plug-ins, and on and on. For good work to develop the technology needs to become as stable and functional as a typewriter.

When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.

A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into.

For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity.

Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.

Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask 'how', while others of a more curious nature will ask 'why'. Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.

While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.

One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind.

Which of my photographs is my favorite? The one I'm going to take tomorrow.

Photography does not create eternity, as art does; it embalms time, rescuing it simply from its proper corruption.

Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.

I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do - that was one of my favorite things about it, and when I first did it, I felt very perverse.

Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.

A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.

A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people.

As an avid photographer, I also took advantage of the latest technology in photography - digital photography - to post photos on my website on a daily basis.

There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.

Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.

You don't take a photograph, you make it.

A portrait is not a likeness. The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion. There is no such thing as inaccuracy in a photograph. All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.

All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.