{"id":7678,"date":"2011-02-27T18:46:34","date_gmt":"2011-02-27T16:46:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ylovephoto.com\/en\/?p=7678"},"modified":"2011-02-28T07:25:23","modified_gmt":"2011-02-28T05:25:23","slug":"3-hours-to-become-a-better-photographer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ylovephoto.com\/en\/2011\/02\/27\/3-hours-to-become-a-better-photographer\/","title":{"rendered":"3 hours to become a better photographer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In our culture of fast-food restaurants, jet planes and instant messaging, we have no longer any time left. Anyway, during the time of a weekend afternoon, you can become a better photographer. Without even shooting one single frame.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Open a photo book and start looking for what makes these images great to your eyes.<\/li>\n<li>Go to a museum (preferably not about photography, but more about old painting or engraving) and study the composition of the displayed works.<\/li>\n<li>Open the user manual of your preferred photo camera and discover those operating modes and features that you never use.<\/li>\n<li>Go join a photo club and speak to other photographers; They will teach you new things, new tricks and they will open your eyes if you listen to them.<\/li>\n<li>Start Photoshop, Lightroom, Aperture, or whatever photo software you use to work again on some of your oldest photos; You are going to rediscover them and you will get new ideas and the will to shoot them again.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In our culture of fast-food restaurants, jet planes and instant messaging, we have no longer any time left. Anyway, during the time of a weekend afternoon, you can become a better photographer. Without even shooting one single frame. Open a photo book and start looking for what makes these images great to your eyes. Go [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[119,248,196],"class_list":["post-7678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-others","tag-idea","tag-list","tag-tip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovephoto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovephoto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovephoto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovephoto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovephoto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovephoto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovephoto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovephoto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovephoto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}