I see my finished platinum print (in the viewfinder) in all its desired qualities, before my exposure.

Good composition is merely the strongest way of seeing.

I see my finished platinum print (in the viewfinder) in all its desired qualities, before my exposure.

I was extravagant in the matter of cameras - anything photographic - I had to have the best. But that was to further my work. In most things I have gone along with the plainest - or without.

An excellent conception can be quite obscured by faulty technical execution or clarified by faultless technique.

In common with other artists the photographer wants his finished print to convey to others his own response to his subject. In the fulfillment of this aim, his greatest asset is the directness of the process he employs. But this advantage can only be retained if he simplifies his equipment and technic to the minimum necessary, and keeps his approach from from all formula, art-dogma, rules and taboos. Only then can he be free to put his photographic sight to use in discovering and revealing the nature of the world he lives in.

To compose a subject well means no more than to see and present it in the strongest manner possible.