{"id":405233,"date":"2022-05-29T16:04:07","date_gmt":"2022-05-29T20:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=405233"},"modified":"2022-05-29T16:04:12","modified_gmt":"2022-05-29T20:04:12","slug":"the-3-rule-in-photography-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/29\/the-3-rule-in-photography-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The 3% Rule in Photography"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Dear friends,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Finding inspiration and creativity is always difficult in photography. But a good idea I have:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Riffing off Virgil Abloh&#8217;s &#8216;3% rule&#8217; &#8212; you only gotta change something 3% to make it new and meaningful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A simple thought in photography:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Assuming you&#8217;re shooting black and white \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 technically <em>everything<\/em> you photograph is changed more than 3%, which means &#8212; just shoot anything in black and white and it is new and original (enough)!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Why 3%?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>If we think the &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/04\/the-kaizen-approach-to-photography-and-life\/\">Kaizen<\/a>&#8216; approach in photography it means:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>If you just keep continually improving, changing your photography and creative output by 3% every single day, you will make epic gains in the year-decade level.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How does this apply to creativity?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Honestly at the end of the day, to just create (new) photos is the goal. Thus we should see &#8216;creativity&#8217; as simply:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The motivation and the drive to make <a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/08\/how-to-motivate-myself-to-make-new-photos\/\">new photos<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">All photos you make will be 3% different<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In theory, even if you photograph the same subject matter every single day, it will always be (at least) 3% different. How?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>You compose and frame it 3% differently<\/li><li>The lighting conditions of the day will be 3% different<\/li><li>Yourself (as a human being, photographer, creative individual) will be 3% different.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Upload your new photos<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arsbeta.com\">ARSBETA.COM<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Upload your 3% &#8216;different&#8217; photos there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arsbeta.com\/upload\/\">UPLOAD NOW ^<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Conquer your fears and meet new peers<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/workshops\/\">WORKSHOPS BY KIM<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/s?me=A1CPP082RBZJAC\">HAPTIC ON AMAZON<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/MIDNIGHT-Eric-Kim-Handmade-Premium\/dp\/B077KFJGJC\/ref=sr_1_1?m=A1CPP082RBZJAC&amp;qid=1653854397&amp;s=merchant-items&amp;sr=1-1\">Henri Wrist Strap: MIDNIGHT BLUE<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Street-Notes-Workbook-Assignments-Photographers\/dp\/B01K5ISDZU\/ref=sr_1_2?m=A1CPP082RBZJAC&amp;qid=1653854397&amp;s=merchant-items&amp;sr=1-2\">STREET NOTES (PRINT PRIME)<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Eric-Kim-Handmade-Premium-Leather\/dp\/B07D41Y83T\/ref=sr_1_10?m=A1CPP082RBZJAC&amp;qid=1653854397&amp;s=merchant-items&amp;sr=1-10\">HENRI WRIST STRAP PRO PHANTOM BLACK<\/a><\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/shop\/\">HAPTIC INDUSTRIES SHOP &gt;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>If this gave you any inspirational ideas, feel free to forward to a friend!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/\">ERIC<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear friends, Finding inspiration and creativity is always difficult in photography. But a good idea I have: Riffing off Virgil Abloh&#8217;s &#8216;3% rule&#8217; &#8212; you only gotta change something 3% to make it new and meaningful. A simple thought in photography: Assuming you&#8217;re shooting black and white \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 technically everything you photograph is changed more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":405156,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-405233","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\/2022\/05\/Screen-Shot-2022-05-28-at-10.11.41-PM-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1600&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405233","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=405233"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":405236,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405233\/revisions\/405236"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/405156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}