{"id":35980,"date":"2016-12-12T02:09:08","date_gmt":"2016-12-12T10:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?page_id=35980"},"modified":"2016-12-12T02:10:25","modified_gmt":"2016-12-12T10:10:25","slug":"i-photograph-not-for-the-many-but-for-you","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/i-photograph-not-for-the-many-but-for-you\/","title":{"rendered":"I Photograph Not For the Many, But For You"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"eric
Garden Grove, 2016 #cindyproject<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Dear friend,<\/p>\n

It is hard to figure out who to photograph for.<\/p>\n

Are you photographing for others, or are you photographing for yourself? Are you photographing to get a lot of \u00e2\u20ac\u02dclikes\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 on social media \u00e2\u20ac\u201d or are you trying to express your own soul?<\/p>\n

When it comes to your photography, who are the few people you really want to impress?<\/p>\n

My suggestion: photograph for just 1 other person<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Who is your \u00e2\u20ac\u0153perfect viewer\u00e2\u20ac\u009d?<\/h2>\n

I got this idea from writing. It is often hard to know who you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re writing for. But if you imagine one person in your life that you want to write for, you will become inspired. Because it is easy to write a letter to a friend. It is hard to write for a large audience of hundreds, or thousands.<\/p>\n

That is why a lot of these blog posts are written as letters to you. Because I imagine you as my \u00e2\u20ac\u0153perfect reader\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u201d a close friend of mine, someone who I can share my deepest and darkest thoughts with, and someone who I can speak frankly with. This allows me to use plain and simple language, and also to make my writing more personal.<\/p>\n

Similarly, try to photograph just for your \u00e2\u20ac\u0153perfect viewer.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Who is that 1 person in your life that you want to photograph for?<\/p>\n

Is that person your close friend? Your partner? Your mom? Your past self? Or just yourself?<\/p>\n

Shooting for an audience of one<\/h2>\n

If you have nobody to show your photos to, just photograph for yourself. After all, that is the most important person to please.<\/p>\n

Always,
\nEric<\/p>\n

Learn more: Personal Photography ><\/strong><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dear friend, It is hard to figure out who to photograph for. Are you photographing for others, or are you photographing for yourself? Are you photographing to get a lot of \u00e2\u20ac\u02dclikes\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 on social media \u00e2\u20ac\u201d or are you trying to express your own soul? When it comes to your photography, who are the few […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35922,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-35980","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}