{"id":335428,"date":"2021-10-26T14:52:31","date_gmt":"2021-10-26T18:52:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/26\/how-to-achieve-your-personal-best-in-photography\/"},"modified":"2021-10-26T15:03:23","modified_gmt":"2021-10-26T19:03:23","slug":"how-to-achieve-your-personal-best-in-photography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/26\/how-to-achieve-your-personal-best-in-photography\/","title":{"rendered":"HOW TO ACHIEVE YOUR PERSONAL BEST IN PHOTOGRAPHY"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

If we liken photography with fitness and powerlifting \u00e2\u20ac\u201d the goal isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t to compete with others. Instead, seeking your own new \u00e2\u20ac\u0153personal beats\u00e2\u20ac\u009d or your own \u00e2\u20ac\u0153PR\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (personal records):<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

1.<\/strong> Focus<\/strong> <\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Your photography is important. Make it a priority. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    2. photography is your life <\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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    Your photography is not different from your life. Rather, seek to integrate the both, and combine the both.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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      3. Stay focused on yourself<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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      When do we tend to fail and compromise the most in our photography? When we compare ourselves to others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      For example let us say sprinting is your passion. Would you compare yourself to Usain Bolt? Or if you love to do deadlifts, do you compare yourself to Eddie Hall?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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        4.<\/strong> Your dystopia is<\/em><\/strong> a utopia<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

        There is much to hate about modern day life, and modern day living. But rather than seeking a different life, isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t it best for us to just harness a life we already have?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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          6. Figuring out how to improve<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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            If we liken photography with fitness and powerlifting \u00e2\u20ac\u201d the goal isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t to compete with others. Instead, seeking your own new \u00e2\u20ac\u0153personal beats\u00e2\u20ac\u009d or your own \u00e2\u20ac\u0153PR\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (personal records):<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":335245,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-335428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-posts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/BB8862D0-E1FD-425C-BB56-784DA760412B-scaled.jpeg?fit=2560%2C1707&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=335428"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":335435,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335428\/revisions\/335435"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/335245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}