{"id":4088,"date":"2014-03-17T18:16:26","date_gmt":"2014-03-17T18:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.michaelgracemartin.com\/main\/?p=4088"},"modified":"2014-03-26T17:29:29","modified_gmt":"2014-03-26T17:29:29","slug":"the-danger-of-producing-displaying-too-much-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaelgracemartin.com\/main\/the-danger-of-producing-displaying-too-much-work\/","title":{"rendered":"The Danger of Producing and Displaying Too Much Work?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Apparently, creating and revealing a bunch of work to the world does not necessarily diminish the gems that end up standing out. Many successful artists have *over-produced* and created many duds among their winners.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This seems counter-intuitive to photographers who have heard the admonishments from photo editors to only show your best work.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of so much emphasis on editing as a way of getting rid of duds, there should be more focus on editing as the best means and opportunity for identifying <strong>the ones that will really shine<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Being too &#8216;stingy&#8217; with your editing (i.e., holding back ones you&#8217;re not sure of) may actually end up hiding the photos you&#8217;ve taken that have the best chance of making a big splash in the world.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s really important? To <strong>continue<\/strong> to show your work no matter what.<\/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>Apparently, creating and revealing a bunch of work to the world does not necessarily diminish the gems that end up &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.michaelgracemartin.com\/main\/the-danger-of-producing-displaying-too-much-work\/\">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":[284,65],"class_list":["post-4088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","tag-editing","tag-photography"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgracemartin.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4088","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=4088"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgracemartin.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4207,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgracemartin.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4088\/revisions\/4207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgracemartin.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgracemartin.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgracemartin.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}