{"id":1766,"date":"2009-08-04T09:01:21","date_gmt":"2009-08-03T23:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/?p=1766"},"modified":"2009-08-04T09:01:21","modified_gmt":"2009-08-03T23:01:21","slug":"the-photographer-is-more-important-than-the-camera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/04\/the-photographer-is-more-important-than-the-camera\/","title":{"rendered":"The photographer is more important than the camera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It seems such a simple statement, but it generates quite some discussion on forums. Jerry Walch makes a good argument in the link below for the people who don&#8217;t want to spend big dollars on cameras. I agree with him to a point. I think the really good gear can make it easier to take a great photo, but not necessary to take a great photo. The photo below isn&#8217;t a world beater, but it isn&#8217;t bad for a $30 plastic camera and home developed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Swamp Road Gallery by norbography, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/norbography\/3275662971\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3418\/3275662971_c5f0b42f6a.jpg\" alt=\"Swamp Road Gallery\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/factoidz.com\/digital-photography-the-photographer-is-more-important-than-the-camera\/\" target=\"blank\">Digital photography: The photographer is more important than the camera | Factoidz<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems such a simple statement, but it generates quite some discussion on forums. Jerry Walch makes a good argument in the link below for the people who don&#8217;t want to spend big dollars on cameras. I agree with him to a point. I think the really good gear can make it easier to take [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[430],"class_list":["post-1766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings","tag-good-photo-with-good-gear"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pqIRT-su","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}