Jay Maisel on How to Be a Better Photographer

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Video 1

“Legendary photographer Jay Maisel offers advice on how to take better photographs, including tips on how to be a more successful street photographer. Maisel recently published Light, Gesture & Color, a book “for people that are tired of bullshit books that tell them exactly what to do, and so they get rote results,” he told PDN.”

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Video 2

“Photographer Jay Maisel, author of Light, Gesture & Color, defines “gesture” as those qualities that distinguish a particular subject from the archetypal–and by extension, good photographs from boring ones. In this video, he explains how to see gesture, and use it to make better, more distinctive photographs.”

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