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When you see something from afar, you develop a fantasy. But when you see it up close, 9 times out of 10, you wish you hadn't.
Seeing is not enough; you have to feel what you photograph
Your face, not like LA where they're situated in no
From a distance it is something; and nearby it is nothing.
The more closely you look at one thing, the less closely can you see something else.
Some things are clearer from a distance.
Near me nothing but distances.
behind. Something-- Jodi Picoult
Hand closed around the
From a Higher Point Everything Looks more Little, but Business we do on the Ground.
Working at the scene of the action, I have adopted Robert Capa's saying: 'If your photographs aren't good enough, you're not close enough.' But in retrospect I add a corollary: if you're too close to events, you lose perspective.
You had a near life experience.
Who you looking at-- Darren Shan
Most things look better from a distance ... And as a matter of fact, so do most people. - The Spook, pg 435
You know it doesn't work that way, T. I have to be touching the body or something that belonged to the victim. Photos only give me a paper cut ... and the willies. (Simone)
You wouldn't take a portrait of a human being from a hundred feet away and expect to capture their spirit; you'd move in close.
One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range.
The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality.
Its just an inch from me to you, depending on what map you use.
When the world asks "what was it like?" Only the photographer can say "See!
I love staging action and wide-shots, not necessarily going to close-ups.
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.
Photography is all about the perspective!
From this distance everything is so bloody perfect.
What is far is very close, and what is close is very far
Don't get too close, it hurts.
It's like
this is going to sound weird, but it's like we're in a movie and every time I'm with you, the camera zooms in for a close-up and we're the only two people in the frame. Do you know what I mean? You're the close-up.
There's no detail too small for me.
For all the discerning talk, it's the close at hand, the visible that exerts the overpowering force. And what we don't see ...
Looked up from where he
Sometimes you do find what you're looking for closer than you think
Sometimes you're watching a great film actor, and if you stand 10 feet away from them, you're like, 'God, they're terrible. They're not doing anything.' And then you see the close-up, and it's so nuanced, and so much expression is happening. They were acting for that camera and for no one else.
I can photograph someone if I can touch them.
I am so close, I may look distant.
How can I hold you close enough?
However fake the subject, once photographed, it's as good as real.
Caress the detail, the divine detail.
It's amazing how photography can capture just a split second of something exquisite.
If you want to talk about magic, the stuff that blows me away is the stuff that's done close up.
Selfie: A portrait of someone we used to know. Taken by someone we used to respect.
The corners of her mouth
I believe in focusing on details.
So close
I can almost touch you
But then you're gone
Like mist around the edge...
Close enough to feel it, but not close enough to burn.
Further up and further in-- C.s. Lewis
In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little human detail can become a Leitmotiv.
Seeing the small is called clarity.
Photography is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.
As photographers, we live through things so swiftly. All our experience and training is focused toward snatching off the highlights ... That all significant perfect moment, so essential to capture, is often highly perishable. There may be little opportunity to probe deeper.
I don't like the selfie because it's too close. There ain't no people with arms long enough to do a selfie of me.
Faces in the everyday impress us as hives of subtlety. That impression must be sharpened in photography, which discloses only a microsecond of the face's behaviour, immersed in a social process.
There is a very modest side to me too. How far away from me is the image? It's about 20 steps away.
Come here, image.
You are closer than you think.
Photographer's advice: Stand in the right place.
Slight not what's near through aiming at what's far.
zoomable from a hundred miles per yard clown to about ten.
I can zero in on subtle things because I'm holding the camera.
image. It seemed as if they were walking near
It's hard to see things when you're too close. Take a step back and look.
He's close enough to touch and too far away to reach.
Well, if you're talking about perfection, I'll show you the image of my backside.
Hope, objects in mirror are closer than they appear.
I've seen your foot up close."
Curran pointed to his chest. "I've seen it here." He moved his hand to his jaw. "Here." He touched the place over his cheek where my kick had cut him. "And here.
binoculars and took another look
The best zoom lens is your legs.
Sometimes the greatest moment of your life present itself in the form if a nearness to someone you love.
I prefer love scenes to be shot up close with a lot of focus on eyes and mouths. Otherwise it can feel uncomfortable and voyeuristic.
I admire from a distance. Too close and the flaws form a craterous landscape and the charm is lost. Who do you think I am, Neil Armstrong?
Photography is a contest between a photographer and the presumptions of approximate and habitual seeing. The contest can be held anywhere ...
Sometimes you're just too close to something to see it clearly. To see it for what it really is. It's like you've got your face pressed to it, and all you can see is the small points. The things you want to see.
The hand opens to the word, opens to distance.
Never mistake a clear view for a short distance.
When the reality looks magnificent, a real art of photography has only one choice: To capture this beauty magnificently!
Above all, I craved to seize the whole essence, in the confines of one single photograph, of some situation that was in the process of unrolling itself before my eyes.
Up close, your face wasn't so much handsome as beautiful.
The picture is good or not from the moment it was caught in the camera.
It's now possible to have your body 3D-imaged from head to toe at a sub-millimeter accuracy, showing every ripple of muscle or cellulite, to allow the perfect-fitting jeans or shoes.
A large picture can give us images of things, but a relatively small one can best re-create the instantaneous unity of nature as a view - the unity of which the eyes take in at a single glance.
To see the object as in itself it really is
When you can feel that close to something you're used to seeing from this great distance, well, it changes a person.
I have rubbed, knocked and brushed up against a thousand windows, trying to get an image.
The viewer must bring their own view to a photograph.
May the angle ever be with you
Distance is the soul of beauty.
Both the grand and the intimate aspects of nature can be revealed in the expressive photograph. Both can stir enduring affirmations and discoveries, and can surely help the spectator in his search for identification with the vast world of natural beauty and wonder surrounding him.
If you don't have a camera, the best thing you can do is describe how great it looked.
Nothing later equalled that first distant glimpse
There's nothing worth photographing more than 100 yards from the car
We just had a near-life experience!
Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.
A photograph has edges the world does not.
The smaller the detail the greater the value.
There is no object so large but that at a great distance from the eye it does not appear smaller than a smaller object near.
Everything's uglier close up -Margo Roth Spiegelman
I know a man
who photographed the view he saw
from the window of the room where he made love
and not the face of the woman he loved there.
If you stand too close to a painting - all you see are patches of color, if you stand too far back, you can't see any of the detail.
You were dreaming. I wanted to be close.
The photographer in Blow-Up, who is not a philosopher, wants to see things closer up. But it so happens that, by enlarging too far, the object itself decomposes and disappears. Hence there's a moment in which we grasp reality, but then the moment passes. This was in part the meaning of Blow-Up.
We do not see everything in the environment in the complete, totally resolved, explicit character of the photograph. We, in fact, prioritize our seeing.