“If your pictures aren’t good enough, you’re not close enough.”
- Robert Capa
Although Capa was a war photographer his up close and personal philosophy has become the mantra of photographers in a variety of genres from photojournalism to landscape. Are you getting close enough to your subject?
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Richard
on July 11 2007
So that’s who said that. I’d heard that before but never knew where it came from.
Andrew Ferguson
on July 11 2007
I’ve heard it often as well, without knowing the source.
I wonder if he’s also responsible for the invention of macro photography…
Brian Rueb (chaybert)
on July 11 2007
I had a photo teacher in college that had 3 rules for photography.
1) Do you REALLY want a picture of this?
2) Are you close enough?
3) Is my camera going to work?
I really like your site Jim, the set-up is awesome…and really quite nice to check out.