{"id":2014,"date":"2011-11-14T21:16:46","date_gmt":"2011-11-15T02:16:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=2014"},"modified":"2011-11-29T14:30:34","modified_gmt":"2011-11-29T19:30:34","slug":"christmas-gifts-for-photographers-2011-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=2014","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Gifts for Photographers &#8211; 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Looking for photo gifts for a photographer (or suggestions for your  own wish list)?\u00c2\u00a0 You&#8217;ve come to the right place. It is the time of year  that I get asked a lot of questions from  people who are buying gifts  for photographers, or from photographers  wanting to drop hints  (\u00e2\u20ac\u0153photographer\u00e2\u20ac\u009d means anyone who  likes to take pictures).\u00c2\u00a0 \u00e2\u20ac\u0153What is the  best book for . . . ?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u0153What are  the best point and shoot cameras?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d  \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Is there any really good image  editing software for less than $100?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"More...\" src=\"..\/wp-includes\/js\/tinymce\/plugins\/wordpress\/img\/trans.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>To answer those questions, each year I write a series of articles  about the best camera equipment, books, software, and online photo labs.<\/p>\n<p>The books on the recommended book lists are from my own photo  library. They are the books I have found to be the most helpful.\u00c2\u00a0 Much  of the photo gear I recommend is gear that I own. The rest of the  recommendations come from the sources I trust, plus the experiences I  have had helping students with their own photo gear on dozens of  photography field trips.<\/p>\n<p>Photo equipment is pretty specialized. If you are buying photo   equipment as a gift for the photographer in your life, ask for very   specific hints (and send the photographer here).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/?p=1939\">Here are the articles<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Happy Gift Giving!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking for photo gifts for a photographer (or suggestions for your own wish list)?\u00c2\u00a0 You&#8217;ve come to the right place. It is the time of year that I get asked a lot of questions from people who are buying gifts &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=2014\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2014"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2016,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2014\/revisions\/2016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}