{"id":216,"date":"2009-01-18T14:49:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-18T14:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicophotography.com\/blog2\/2009\/01\/18\/123\/"},"modified":"2015-12-09T19:04:43","modified_gmt":"2015-12-09T11:04:43","slug":"123","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicophotography.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/123\/","title":{"rendered":"1,2,3&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_clhJIpbSUjo\/SXNYzdzjAVI\/AAAAAAAAAl4\/QDcZh2SbsyY\/s1600-h\/123-nicophotography.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5292671628287869266\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_clhJIpbSUjo\/SXNYzdzjAVI\/AAAAAAAAAl4\/QDcZh2SbsyY\/s320\/123-nicophotography.jpg\" style=\"cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 80px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;\" \/><\/a><br \/>It&#8217;s a classic in Taiwan, as people take photos they would count to three then maybe ask you to smile and take the shot.<br \/>It&#8217;s perfectly fine with with me, but why do professional photographers do the same?<br \/>How does one expect to take a natural photo, catch a moment while counting to three?<\/p>\n<p>I have seen it so often, the photographer would count to 3 and take the photo while everybody is putting on a forced smile, and then move onto something else. The best moment to take that group shot is right after the first shot, when the subject is more natural.<\/p>\n<p>The secret is to be fast, and ready! zoom in up into the group to take some close up shots as well.<\/p>\n<p>Practice and be quick and always smiling, it helps!<\/p>\n<p>Nico<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a classic in Taiwan, as people take photos they would count to three then maybe ask you to smile and take the shot.It&#8217;s perfectly fine with with me, but why do professional photographers do the same?How does one expect to take a natural photo, catch a moment while counting to three? I have seen...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pp_embeds":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[242],"tags":[46],"class_list":["post-216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-way-i-see-it-","tag-the-way-i-see-it"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicophotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicophotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicophotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicophotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicophotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nicophotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":776,"href":"https:\/\/nicophotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions\/776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicophotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicophotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicophotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}