{"id":51909,"date":"2024-02-17T00:47:05","date_gmt":"2024-02-17T04:47:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/?p=51909"},"modified":"2026-01-28T00:56:47","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T04:56:47","slug":"posing-with-your-camera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/posing-with-your-camera\/","title":{"rendered":"Posing with your camera?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/images\/various\/photographers-posing-with-their-camera.jpg\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1125\" class=\"alignnone size-large\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy do all chefs cross their arms in photos?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I photographed a corporate event in Manhattan a few weeks ago, hosted by a prominent London-based marketing group. One of the fascinating presentations (by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eatbigfish.com\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">EatBigFish<\/a>) was about \u201cBlanding\u201d &#8211; when branding of so many companies conform to a consistent idea of what branding should look like.<\/p>\n<p>This slide summarized many of the themes in the presentation.<\/p>\n<p>And I immediately thought of how photographers do the same thing on their websites \u2014 posing with their cameras as if to prove they are photographers. It\u2019s a crutch! As photographers we need to *be* as imaginative as we want to believe we are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhy do all chefs cross their arms in photos?\u201d I photographed a corporate event in Manhattan a few weeks ago, hosted by a prominent London-based marketing group. One of the fascinating presentations (by EatBigFish) was about \u201cBlanding\u201d &#8211; when branding of so many companies conform to a consistent idea of what branding should look like.&nbsp;<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/posing-with-your-camera\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Read more inside&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51910,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[225],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[1227],"class_list":{"0":"post-51909","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-essays-discussions","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51909"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51909"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51914,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51909\/revisions\/51914"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51909"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=51909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}