{"id":2096,"date":"2013-03-19T14:48:53","date_gmt":"2013-03-19T14:48:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.michaelgracemartin.com\/main\/?p=2096"},"modified":"2013-03-19T14:51:16","modified_gmt":"2013-03-19T14:51:16","slug":"the-difference-between-taking-and-making-a-photograph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaelgracemartin.com\/main\/the-difference-between-taking-and-making-a-photograph\/","title":{"rendered":"The Difference between Taking and Making a Photograph"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ultimately, the difference between &#8220;making&#8221; and &#8220;taking&#8221; a photograph corresponds directly with whether the photograph was planned (pre-conceived and\/or posed) or whether it was a candid capture of a non-directed event or occurrence. Sometimes, within a planned photo session, something fortuitous but unintentional will occur and be photographed. In street photography, some photographers will wait at a scene they&#8217;ve designated as particularly &#8220;photogenic&#8221; and wait for a person to enter and complete the scene. These latter two instances are probably best thought of as a *mix* of taking and making.<\/p>\n<br \/>\n<table class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\"\n style=\"min-width: 540px ! important; background-color: rgb(195, 176, 145); border-collapse: collapse;\"\n border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"18\" cellspacing=\"0\"\n width=\"540\">\n  <tbody>\n    <tr>\n      <td\n style=\"color: rgb(242, 242, 242); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; text-align: center;\"\n class=\"mcnTextContent\" valign=\"top\">\n      <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.saatchiart.com\/mgracemartin\" target=\"_blank\"\n style=\"color: rgb(96, 96, 96); font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"\n src=\"https:\/\/www.michaelgracemartin.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/red_swing_76.jpg\"\n style=\"border: 0pt none ; margin: 0px; width: 114px; height: 76px; text-decoration: none;\"\n align=\"left\" height=\"76\" width=\"114\"><\/a><br>\nVisit Michael's <a\n href=\"https:\/\/www.saatchiart.com\/mgracemartin\"\n target=\"_blank\"\n style=\"color: rgb(96, 96, 96); font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;\">Art Photography Portfolio<\/a> at SaatchiArt.com!\n      <\/td>\n    <\/tr>\n  <\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<br \/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ultimately, the difference between &#8220;making&#8221; and &#8220;taking&#8221; a photograph corresponds directly with whether the photograph was planned (pre-conceived and\/or posed) &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.michaelgracemartin.com\/main\/the-difference-between-taking-and-making-a-photograph\/\">Continue reading &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[26,186,188,185,187],"class_list":["post-2096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","tag-candid","tag-making","tag-photograph","tag-planned","tag-taking"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgracemartin.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgracemartin.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgracemartin.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgracemartin.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgracemartin.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2096"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgracemartin.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2098,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgracemartin.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2096\/revisions\/2098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgracemartin.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgracemartin.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgracemartin.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}