T.C.'S Tear Sheets

Sharing some of my published articles and photographs. And anything else photography related tied to me. I am blessed.

A tear sheet is simply an image that is showing how your photography was used. This could be shown as an ad, any of their marketing materials, social media campaign images, magazine covers, magazine features and a number of other things. 

The name “tear sheet” comes from days of film where photographers would find their images in a magazine for example, and tear it out of the magazine. We would take that sheet from the magazine and show that in our physical portfolio.

I feel like the biggest thing in photography is "Being There." I will share a few of the quotes that I have heard over the years from other photographers. 

“You don’t take a photograph, you make it.”

– Ansel Adams

“Great photography is about depth of feeling, not depth of field.”

– Peter Adams

“Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second.”

– Marc Riboud

“Your first 1,000 photographs are your worst.”

– Henri Cartier-Bresson

“The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do.”

– Andy Warhol

“Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.”

– Dorothea Lange

“There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.”

– Ansel Adams

“I wish that all of nature’s magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed.”

– Annie Leibovitz

“The best images are the ones that retain their strength and impact over the years, regardless of the number of times they are viewed.”

– Anne Geddes

“All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.”

– Richard Avedon

“When people ask me what equipment I use - I tell them my eyes.”

– Anonymous

“Photography to me is catching a moment which is passing, and which is true.”
– Jacques-Henri Lartigue

“Results are uncertain even among the more experienced photographers.”
– Matthew Brady

“Kodak sells film, but they don’t advertise film; they advertise memories.”
– Theodore Levitt

“If you see something that moves you, and then snap it, you keep a moment.”
– Linda McCartney

“There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.”
– Ansel Adams

“Photography is not about cameras, gadgets and gizmos. Photography is about photographers. A camera didn’t make a great picture any more than a typewriter wrote a great novel.”
– Peter Adams

“The more you photograph, the more you realize what can and what can’t be photographed. You just have to keep doing it.”
– Eliot Porter

“To me, photography is an art of observation. It’s about finding something interesting in an ordinary place… I’ve found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.”
– Elliott Erwitt

“I began to realize that the camera sees the world differently than the human eye and that sometimes those differences can make a photograph more powerful than what you actually observed.”
– Galen Rowell

“You cannot possibly hit the shutter without leaving a piece of you in the image.”
– Joe Buissink

“Skill in photography is acquired by practice and not by purchase.”
– Percy W. Harris

“One doesn’t stop seeing. One doesn’t stop framing. It doesn’t turn off and on. It’s on all the time.”
– Annie Leibovitz

“In photography, there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.”
– Alfred Stieglitz

“There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are.”
– Ernst Haas

“If a photographer cares about the people before the lens and is compassionate, much is given. It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.”
– Eve Arnold

“Photography is the story I fail to put into words.”
– Destin Sparks

“The camera is an excuse to be someplace you otherwise don’t belong. It gives me both a point of connection and a point of separation.”
– Susan Meiselas

“Photographing a culture in the here and now often means photographing the intersection of the present with the past.”
– David DuChemin

“I am not interested in shooting new things – I am interested to see things new.”
– Ernst Haas

“When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.”
– Ansel Adams

“I never have taken a picture I’ve intended. They’re always better or worse.”
– Diane Arbus

“I walk, I look, I see, I stop, I photograph.”
– Leon Levinstein

“To consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravitation before going for a walk.”
– Edward Weston

“My photography is the result of being there at the right moment.”
– Rene Burri