{"id":2473,"date":"2013-05-30T15:26:21","date_gmt":"2013-05-30T15:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.michaelgracemartin.com\/main\/?p=2473"},"modified":"2013-05-30T15:26:21","modified_gmt":"2013-05-30T15:26:21","slug":"photography-more-than-taking-pretty-pictures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaelgracemartin.com\/main\/photography-more-than-taking-pretty-pictures\/","title":{"rendered":"Photography More than Taking Pretty Pictures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Knowing how to operate a camera (and photography equipment in general) is getting lower and lower on the list of obstacles one must overcome to\u00a0 become a successful photographer; just above that is knowing how to take &#8220;a pretty picture&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>You want to be a successful photographer beyond the hobbyist level? Study human psychology, art, and marketing. Also, learn how to edit your stuff.<\/p>\n<p>The other thing that helps me&#8211;not sure if this is true for everyone&#8211;is being able (or least trying) to explain my photographic goals, projects, and scenarios <strong>in words<\/strong>.<\/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>Knowing how to operate a camera (and photography equipment in general) is getting lower and lower on the list of &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.michaelgracemartin.com\/main\/photography-more-than-taking-pretty-pictures\/\">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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[65],"class_list":["post-2473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","tag-photography"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgracemartin.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2473","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=2473"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgracemartin.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2476,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgracemartin.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2473\/revisions\/2476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgracemartin.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgracemartin.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgracemartin.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}