{"id":265869,"date":"2020-08-17T10:09:38","date_gmt":"2020-08-17T17:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=265869"},"modified":"2020-08-17T10:33:16","modified_gmt":"2020-08-17T17:33:16","slug":"on-becoming-less-critical-of-your-photos-and-yourself-as-a-photographer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/17\/on-becoming-less-critical-of-your-photos-and-yourself-as-a-photographer\/","title":{"rendered":"On Becoming Less Critical of Your Photos and Yourself as a Photographer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you&#8217;re uber-critical of yourself as a photographer &#8230; who benefits? Not you, just your random social media followers. And ultimately your own critique and criticism and low-self esteem only benefits FacebookGram, who runs our lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery alignfull columns-1 wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1180\" height=\"783\" data-attachment-id=\"265874\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/17\/on-becoming-less-critical-of-your-photos-and-yourself-as-a-photographer\/eric-hong-kong-kodak-portra-400-photography-00001\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/eric-hong-kong-kodak-portra-400-photography-00001.jpg?fit=2048%2C1359&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2048,1359\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" 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