{"id":944,"date":"2017-11-14T08:20:46","date_gmt":"2017-11-14T07:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/?p=944"},"modified":"2017-11-14T08:35:22","modified_gmt":"2017-11-14T07:35:22","slug":"now-everyones-a-photographer-chapter-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/14\/now-everyones-a-photographer-chapter-21\/","title":{"rendered":"Now Everyone&rsquo;s a Photographer &#8211; chapter 21"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This has to end! Our &lsquo;favourite&rsquo; wannabe photographer has just published this &#8211; I can&rsquo;t take it any more, so after this I will not be wasting any more time on this idiot.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/badji.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-945\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/badji.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"505\" height=\"341\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/badji.png 505w, https:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/badji-300x203.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 505px) 100vw, 505px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Frankly I&rsquo;m surprised he didn&rsquo;t just put up a message \u00ab\u00a0Hi, I&rsquo;ve no discernable talent, but photography seems easy, so is there anybody out there who will pay me to do what I have no idea how to?\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<p>Give me a break<\/p>\n<p><strong>Postscript<\/strong>: <em>I&rsquo;ve been trying to figure out why this situation bothers me so much &#8211; I mean, I&rsquo;m not in any way jealous of this idiot (look at his so called &lsquo;work&rsquo; and decide for yourself) I think the thing that bugs me the most is this \u00ab\u00a0I want to do something that I have no training and (visibly) no potential for, so help me.\u00a0\u00bb like it&rsquo;s an obligation for people to leap in and shower him with help and advice.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Photography, like many many things, can be self taught, or at least the learning curve can be more or less steep depending on the advice you take\/search for\/read, but it&rsquo;s essentially something that has to have a certain innate understanding of light, composition etc. Yes, of course you can learn this things, but understanding basic principles helps too&#8230;you can&rsquo;t just rely\u00a0 on people saying \u00ab\u00a0oh that&rsquo;s nice\u00a0\u00bb to make you a photographer.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> I&rsquo;ve seen a number of people start showing their photographic work, and over a period of time, the improvements are manifest (the people are &lsquo;learning&rsquo;) and their work evolves &#8211; I can only hope this will eventually dawn on this person to get up of his arse and do something himself. I would like to be proved wrong, but sadly I don&rsquo;t think this is ever going to happen.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This has to end! Our &lsquo;favourite&rsquo; wannabe photographer has just published this &#8211; I can&rsquo;t take it any more, so after this I will not be wasting any more time on this idiot. Frankly I&rsquo;m surprised he didn&rsquo;t just put up a message \u00ab\u00a0Hi, I&rsquo;ve no discernable talent, but photography seems easy, so is there &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/14\/now-everyones-a-photographer-chapter-21\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continuer la lecture<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> de &laquo;&nbsp;Now Everyone&rsquo;s a Photographer &#8211; chapter 21&nbsp;&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-useless-information"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=944"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":950,"href":"https:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944\/revisions\/950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}