“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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So that’s who said that. I’d heard that before but never knew where it came from.
I’ve heard it often as well, without knowing the source.
I wonder if he’s also responsible for the invention of macro photography… 😛
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.