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With Photography, Everything Is In The Eye And These Days I Feel Young Photographers Are Missing The Point A Bit. People Always Ask About Cameras But It Doesn't Matter What Camera You Have. You Can Have The Most Modern Camera In The World But If You Don't Have An Eye, The Camera Is Worthless. Young People Know More About Modern Cameras And Lighting Than I Do. When I Started Out In Photography I Didn't Own An Exposure Meter - I Couldn't , They Didn't Exist! I Had To Guess.

Another Picture I Hope To Be Remembered By Is This One Of The Drum Major Rehearsing At The University Of Michigan. It Was Early In This Morning, And I Saw A Little Boy Running After Him, All The Faculty Children In The Playing Field Ran After The Boy, And I Ran After Them. This Is A Completely Spontaneous, Unstaged Picture.

I Enjoy Traveling And Recording Far-away Places And People With My Camera. But I Also Find It Wonderfully Rewarding To See What I Can Discover Outside My Own Window. You Only Need To Study The Scene With The Eyes Of A Photographer.

It's Important To Understand It's Ok To Control The Subject. If Most Editorial Stories Were Photographed Just As They Are, Editors Would End Up Throwing Most In The Waste Basket. You Have To Work Hard At Making An Editorial Picture. You Need To Re-stage Things, Rearrange Things So That They Work For The Story, With Truth And Without Lying.

I Don’t Use An Exposure Meter. My Personal Advice Is: Spend The Money You Would Put Into Such An Instrument For Film. Buy Yards Of Film, Miles Of It. Buy All The Film You Can Get Your Hands On. And Then Experiment With It.that Is The Only Way To Be Successful In Photography. Test, Try, Experiment, Feel Your Way Along. It Is The Experience, Not Technique, Which Counts In Camera Work First Of All. If You Get The Feel Of Photography, You Can Take Fifteen Pictures While One Of Your Opponents Is Trying Out His Exposure Meter.