{"id":224,"date":"2008-12-18T10:00:09","date_gmt":"2008-12-18T00:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/?p=224"},"modified":"2008-12-18T10:00:09","modified_gmt":"2008-12-18T00:00:09","slug":"photographers-on-the-other-side-of-the-camera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/18\/photographers-on-the-other-side-of-the-camera\/","title":{"rendered":"Photographers on the other side of the camera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why is it that a lot of photographers don&#8217;t like having their photos taken? I know I don&#8217;t. I don&#8217;t mind the occasional self portrait, but having other people take my photo makes me uncomfortable. Is it a control thing? Is it that I am 20kgs over weight? Is it that I have a face like a dropped pie?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Fade to Black  (PSD) by norbography, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/norbography\/2238979986\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2281\/2238979986_3a6e2eb94a.jpg\" alt=\"Fade to Black  (PSD)\" width=\"500\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Do other photographers have the same thoughts? Are you comfortable in front of a camera, instead of hiding behind it? Does the <em>camera love you baby, yeah!<\/em> Maybe the people that take a lot of portrait shots are more comfortable than those who don&#8217;t. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why is it that a lot of photographers don&#8217;t like having their photos taken? I know I don&#8217;t. I don&#8217;t mind the occasional self portrait, but having other people take my photo makes me uncomfortable. Is it a control thing? Is it that I am 20kgs over weight? Is it that I have a face [&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":[2],"tags":[243,877,969],"class_list":["post-224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discussion-starter","tag-control","tag-portrait","tag-self-potrait"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pqIRT-3C","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224","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=224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}