{"id":710,"date":"2008-05-03T00:03:16","date_gmt":"2008-05-03T04:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2008\/05\/03\/photography-2\/"},"modified":"2008-05-03T00:03:16","modified_gmt":"2008-05-03T04:03:16","slug":"photography-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2008\/05\/03\/photography-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Photography"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve had yosigo<\/a> in my Flickr contacts list for a while now, as I’m a fan of their work.<\/p>\n

Check out this photo<\/a>, for example. It’s a very simple photo, and any of us could have taken it. He didn’t do a ten-minute exposure with a special lens, and he didn’t use any fancy filters. Contrast hasn’t been bumped up in Photoshop. A five-year old with a camera could take this shot.<\/p>\n

And yet, no one else did. While we’re all out there hunting down elaborate shots of obscure subjects in perfect lighting, he’s taking shots like these<\/a>. Incredibly simple; that seems to be his trademark.<\/p>\n

In learning photography, we all learned the Rule of Thirds. Never center something in the photo. Imagine a 3×3 grid, and “center” on one of those. Tell him that<\/a>. He keeps taking ultra-simplistic<\/a> shots, and they keep being amazing<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Perhaps most “frustrating” as a photographer, though, is that I feel that it’d be very easy to imitate his work, and yet almost impossible to maintain the “Wow” factor of his photos. If I took a photo of a plate with a piece of bread on it, it’d probably wind up in my “delete” pile.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve had yosigo in my Flickr contacts list for a while now, as I’m a fan of their work. Check out this photo, for example. It’s a very simple photo, and any of us could have taken it. He didn’t … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12,20,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool-links","category-interesting","category-photography","category-rants-raves"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}