Animals give me more pleasure through the viewfinder of a camera than they ever did in the crosshairs of a gunsight.
Looking through the viewfinder for me is like being in a movie theater. That's what I like about it.
To do a portrait today, I decide how close I can get to my subject. First, of course, mentally or intellectually, then in the viewfinder. Music cues the subject and me when to shoot. The music played during a photography session is most important - stimulating to the subject and to me. As in a film, the music builds or becomes quiet, romantic; just one note sets the actor up to emote for his audience. I want a reciprocal portrait, not a bureaucratic one
I have spent too much time with my eye glued to the viewfinder and ended up missing both the image of the mind and that on film.
If I saw something in my viewfinder that looked familiar to me, I would do something to shake it up.
One eye of the photographer looks wide open through the viewfinder, the other, the closed looks into his own soul.
For me, looking at small images somehow recreates the experience of looking through a viewfinder. . . . At this size they're edible. You don't just scan them. You take them in all at once.
Sometimes I photograph without looking through the viewfinder. I have mastered that well enough, it is almost as if I were looking through it.
