{"id":494404,"date":"2023-04-11T13:50:30","date_gmt":"2023-04-11T17:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=494404"},"modified":"2023-04-11T13:50:32","modified_gmt":"2023-04-11T17:50:32","slug":"how-to-become-a-better-photographer-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/11\/how-to-become-a-better-photographer-4\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Become a Better Photographer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I think what we want is to become \u00e2\u20ac\u0153better\u00e2\u20ac\u009d photographers. What does that really mean?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">1. Becoming a more productive photographer<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The first thought is in order to become a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153better\u00e2\u20ac\u009d photographer, it means to become a more productive photographer, which literally means to produce more photos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What does that mean? In a single given day, how many photos do you shoot and make?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For example the other day I shot 850 photos in a single day, just in the boring suburbs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How did I do this? Simple idea: set your camera to manual focus, and set the focus at .3 m, and just shoot a lot, everything with that pre-focused distance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2. Compositions which excite you?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another big thing about becoming a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153better\u00e2\u20ac\u0153 photographer is seeing and making compositions which are more interesting and exciting to you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For example, the ability to see layers and photos. Also, shooting photos which are unexpectedly interesting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think what we want is to become \u00e2\u20ac\u0153better\u00e2\u20ac\u009d photographers. What does that really mean? 1. Becoming a more productive photographer The first thought is in order to become a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153better\u00e2\u20ac\u009d photographer, it means \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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,"_ek_photo_artist_note":"","_ek_photo_thesis":"","_ek_photo_camera":"","_ek_photo_place":"","_ek_photo_human_moment":"","_ek_photo_sequence":"","_ek_photo_question":"","_ek_photo_canonical_claim":"","_ek_photo_ai_summary":"","_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-494404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494404","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=494404"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":494405,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494404\/revisions\/494405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}