It's usually so fraught when you're taking a picture. I work with an 8-by-10 view camera and there's a, you know, hood that I put over my head, and it's tricky and complicated.
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You start blocking out things, and that's a really important part of taking a picture is the ability to isolate what you're - what you're concentrating on.
I'm used to having a camera in my face but not a camera following me.
I've always been more of a camera hog than anything, and it's just another way to get it all out!
This thing called the camera, that takes everything in equally, taught me a lot about how to see.
The viewer must bring their own view to a photograph.
You can get a bit 'head in the clouds' - well, I do - and full of myself if I stick in front of the camera for too long. I forget there is hard work that needs to be done.
You must photograph where you are involved; where you are overwhelmed by what you see before you; where you hold your breath while releasing the shutter, not because you are afraid of jarring the camera, but because you are seeing with your guts wide open to the sweet pain of an image that is part of your life.
I don't have a great face for camera.
To not be self-conscious of your appearance is huge, and something that I desperately hope to carry into film at some point in my useless life - to not be thinking, 'My ear looks weird from this angle, why is the camera over there?'
There's a discipline. When you take someone's portrait, you don't have to take 50 photographs, just find that one so that when you release the shutter, that's the image that you took.
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