{"id":247648,"date":"2026-01-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thephoblographer.com\/?p=247648"},"modified":"2025-11-10T12:03:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T17:03:15","slug":"there-will-always-be-a-better-photograph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thephoblographer.com\/2026\/01\/08\/there-will-always-be-a-better-photograph\/","title":{"rendered":"There Will Always Be A Better Photograph"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">I&#8217;m pretty sure that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thephoblographer.com\/2025\/06\/19\/leave-your-lens-cap-off\/\">Diane Arbus<\/a> said it best: leave your lens cap off. She believed that you should leave your camera on at all times because you never know when you&#8217;re going to miss a great photograph. And I think that if you&#8217;re reading this article, then you can probably relate to the feeling of missing the shot. But you should never lose faith in yourself, and know that you should forgive yourself because forgiveness is understanding that you can&#8217;t change the past.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"680\" height=\"453\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thephoblographer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/graduation-j.-motal-47-680x453.jpg\" alt=\"julius motal the phoblography don't explode photography easy\" class=\"wp-image-72167\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thephoblographer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/graduation-j.-motal-47-680x453.jpg 680w, https:\/\/www.thephoblographer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/graduation-j.-motal-47-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thephoblographer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/graduation-j.-motal-47-200x133.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.thephoblographer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/graduation-j.-motal-47.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Perhaps one of the biggest soul-sucking moments any photographer has to contend with is missing the shot. The frame takes shape with each element in its proper position, but you aren&#8217;t ready for it. Your camera may be tucked away or left home, and the photograph disappears as quickly as it appeared. While it may be gone, you remember it. Ask any photographer about missed images, and you&#8217;ll hear a story about the shot that got away. It\u2019s a shared experience. If I\u2019m going somewhere with a friend, I\u2019ll comment on photographs as they happen. \u201cThat\u2019s a photograph,\u201d is the common refrain. If you\u2019ve been photographing for some time, you probably have plenty of stories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I do, a few of them from today even as I\u2019m writing this (Monday, September 21, if you might be wondering). In one, a topless chubby boy is trying to hoist himself over a tall iron fence near a bridge as another smaller topless boy, having already cleared the fence, runs into the distance. In another, two Muslim men, complete with skull caps and traditional garb, their expressions glazed, sit at the top of a flight of stairs set into an apartment building. My camera was elsewhere, and I grimaced as each image took shape and then went away.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thephoblographer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Chris-Gampat-The-Phoblographer-A-Street-Photographers-Notebook-for-iPad-Review-7-of-9ISO-4001-40-sec-at-f-5.6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"680\" height=\"453\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thephoblographer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Chris-Gampat-The-Phoblographer-A-Street-Photographers-Notebook-for-iPad-Review-7-of-9ISO-4001-40-sec-at-f-5.6-680x453.jpg\" alt=\"Chris Gampat The Phoblographer A Street Photographer's Notebook for iPad Review (7 of 9)ISO 4001-40 sec at f - 5.6\" class=\"wp-image-70825\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thephoblographer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Chris-Gampat-The-Phoblographer-A-Street-Photographers-Notebook-for-iPad-Review-7-of-9ISO-4001-40-sec-at-f-5.6-680x453.jpg 680w, https:\/\/www.thephoblographer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Chris-Gampat-The-Phoblographer-A-Street-Photographers-Notebook-for-iPad-Review-7-of-9ISO-4001-40-sec-at-f-5.6-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thephoblographer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Chris-Gampat-The-Phoblographer-A-Street-Photographers-Notebook-for-iPad-Review-7-of-9ISO-4001-40-sec-at-f-5.6-200x133.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.thephoblographer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Chris-Gampat-The-Phoblographer-A-Street-Photographers-Notebook-for-iPad-Review-7-of-9ISO-4001-40-sec-at-f-5.6.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>I\u2019ve written about this before, about the importance of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thephoblographer.com\/2013\/11\/11\/remember-photographs-never-made\/#.VgCVfiCqqko\">remembering the photographs you missed<\/a>. Early on, they can be formative moments, but they can get to a point where they\u2019re just routine. <em>Well, there goes another one. Did you see that? No? I did. <\/em>We can\u2019t possibly take every image we see, and we all have to reckon with that at some point. I don\u2019t always have my camera with me, a deliberate choice I assure you, however masochistic it may be, and when I do, it\u2019s not always around my neck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The mindset I&#8217;ve adopted is that there will be another photograph. It definitely won\u2019t be the same photograph, but at some point somewhere, there will be another one. The missed moments, however, become something of a hazy gallery inside my mind. I say hazy because memory is perpetually distorted, and there\u2019s an inclination to romanticize what has happened. It\u2019s far more likely that a select few of the images I missed are actually good images. Of course, there\u2019s no real way to accurately determine the keeper rate of missed images, but if real life is any indication, this hypothetical keeper rate is probably very low.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The idea, of course, is to keep going. Most missed images are, at most, bumps in the road. Some are potholes that\u2019ll wreck your car for a while, but you\u2019ll mend what\u2019s broken and keep moving. There is the occasional deer that\u2019ll nearly total your car, but you\u2019ll keep moving because you have to. When that next photograph arrives, be ready.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>This article is a dive into our archives for those of you who haven&#8217;t read us all that long, and was originally published the the title &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thephoblographer.com\/2015\/09\/26\/will-another-photograph\/\">There will be another photograph.<\/a>&#8221; It has been given a fresh introduction<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m pretty sure that Diane Arbus said it best: leave your lens cap off. She believed that you should leave your camera on at all times because you never know when you&#8217;re going to miss a great photograph. And I think that if you&#8217;re reading this article, then you can probably relate to the feeling of missing the shot. But you should never lose faith in yourself, and know that you should forgive yourself because forgiveness is understanding that you can&#8217;t change the past.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":247381,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_daim_seo_power":"","_daim_enable_ail":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3849],"tags":[231,4591,3585,4613],"class_list":["post-247648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photography-culture","tag-camera","tag-diane-arbus","tag-lens-cap","tag-photograph"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>There Will Always Be A Better Photograph<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"No matter what, always know that you&#039;re going to shoot a better photograph in the future. So don&#039;t sweat the small stuff.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thephoblographer.com\/2026\/01\/08\/there-will-always-be-a-better-photograph\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"There Will Always Be A Better Photograph\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"No matter what, always know that you&#039;re going to shoot a better photograph in the future. So don&#039;t sweat the small stuff.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.thephoblographer.com\/2026\/01\/08\/there-will-always-be-a-better-photograph\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"The Phoblographer\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2026-01-08T05:00:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.thephoblographer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/AlbertoLima_ThePhoblographer_Canon-EOS-R1-Review-Update_Product-Imagesedited_-NikonNIKON-Z6_3-NIKON-Z6_3-Ver.01.10-6048-x-4032-1-160-sec-at-f-4.0-35-mm-ISO-400-scaled.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"2560\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1706\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Chris Gampat\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.thephoblographer.com\/2026\/01\/08\/there-will-always-be-a-better-photograph\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.thephoblographer.com\/2026\/01\/08\/there-will-always-be-a-better-photograph\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Chris Gampat\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.thephoblographer.com\/#\/schema\/person\/50369a9b593d98d0dbb6bd2da8e848b4\"},\"headline\":\"There Will Always Be A Better Photograph\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-01-08T05:00:00+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.thephoblographer.com\/2026\/01\/08\/there-will-always-be-a-better-photograph\/\"},\"wordCount\":628,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.thephoblographer.com\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.thephoblographer.com\/2026\/01\/08\/there-will-always-be-a-better-photograph\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.thephoblographer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/AlbertoLima_ThePhoblographer_Canon-EOS-R1-Review-Update_Product-Imagesedited_-NikonNIKON-Z6_3-NIKON-Z6_3-Ver.01.10-6048-x-4032-1-160-sec-at-f-4.0-35-mm-ISO-400-scaled.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"camera\",\"Diane Arbus\",\"Lens cap\",\"photograph\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Photography Culture\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.thephoblographer.com\/2026\/01\/08\/there-will-always-be-a-better-photograph\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.thephoblographer.com\/2026\/01\/08\/there-will-always-be-a-better-photograph\/\",\"name\":\"There Will Always Be A Better Photograph\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.thephoblographer.com\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.thephoblographer.com\/2026\/01\/08\/there-will-always-be-a-better-photograph\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.thephoblographer.com\/2026\/01\/08\/there-will-always-be-a-better-photograph\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.thephoblographer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/AlbertoLima_ThePhoblographer_Canon-EOS-R1-Review-Update_Product-Imagesedited_-NikonNIKON-Z6_3-NIKON-Z6_3-Ver.01.10-6048-x-4032-1-160-sec-at-f-4.0-35-mm-ISO-400-scaled.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-01-08T05:00:00+00:00\",\"description\":\"No matter what, always know that you're going to shoot a better photograph in the future. So don't sweat the small stuff.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.thephoblographer.com\/2026\/01\/08\/there-will-always-be-a-better-photograph\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.thephoblographer.com\/2026\/01\/08\/there-will-always-be-a-better-photograph\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.thephoblographer.com\/2026\/01\/08\/there-will-always-be-a-better-photograph\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.thephoblographer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/AlbertoLima_ThePhoblographer_Canon-EOS-R1-Review-Update_Product-Imagesedited_-NikonNIKON-Z6_3-NIKON-Z6_3-Ver.01.10-6048-x-4032-1-160-sec-at-f-4.0-35-mm-ISO-400-scaled.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.thephoblographer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/AlbertoLima_ThePhoblographer_Canon-EOS-R1-Review-Update_Product-Imagesedited_-NikonNIKON-Z6_3-NIKON-Z6_3-Ver.01.10-6048-x-4032-1-160-sec-at-f-4.0-35-mm-ISO-400-scaled.jpg\",\"width\":2560,\"height\":1706,\"caption\":\"This Canon EOS R1\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.thephoblographer.com\/2026\/01\/08\/there-will-always-be-a-better-photograph\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.thephoblographer.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"There Will Always Be A Better Photograph\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.thephoblographer.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.thephoblographer.com\/\",\"name\":\"The Phoblographer\",\"description\":\"The Future of Human Photography\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.thephoblographer.com\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.thephoblographer.com\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.thephoblographer.com\/#organization\",\"name\":\"The Phoblographer\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.thephoblographer.com\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.thephoblographer.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.thephoblographer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/cropped-logo-upscaled-the-phoblographer.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.thephoblographer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/cropped-logo-upscaled-the-phoblographer.png\",\"width\":512,\"height\":512,\"caption\":\"The Phoblographer\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.thephoblographer.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/x.com\/phoblographer\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.thephoblographer.com\/#\/schema\/person\/50369a9b593d98d0dbb6bd2da8e848b4\",\"name\":\"Chris Gampat\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.thephoblographer.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/a715baf25c44884c3a75d79f3b9b5af9d4a021718842cb96090acd5dcf4cc188?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/a715baf25c44884c3a75d79f3b9b5af9d4a021718842cb96090acd5dcf4cc188?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Chris Gampat\"},\"description\":\"Chris Gampat is the Editor in Chief, Founder, and Publisher of the Phoblographer. He provides oversight to all of the daily tasks, including editorial, administrative, and advertising work. Chris's editorial work includes not only editing and scheduling articles but also writing them himself. He's the author of various product guides, educational pieces, product reviews, and interviews with photographers. He's fascinated by how photographers create, considering the fact that he's legally blind.\/ HIGHLIGHTS: Chris used to work in Men's lifestyle and tech. He's a veteran technology writer, editor, and reviewer with more than 15 years experience. He's also a Photographer that has had his share of bylines and viral projects like \\\"Secret Order of the Slice.\\\" PAST BYLINES: Gear Patrol, PC Mag, Geek.com, Digital Photo Pro, Resource Magazine, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Finance, IGN, PDN, and others. EXPERIENCE: Chris Gampat began working in tech and art journalism both in 2008. He started at PCMag, Magnum Photos, and Geek.com. He founded the Phoblographer in 2009 after working at places like PDN and Photography Bay. He left his day job as the Social Media Content Developer at B&amp;H Photo in the early 2010s. Since then, he's evolved as a publisher using AI ethically, coming up with ethical ways to bring in affiliate income, and preaching the word of diversity in the photo industry. His background and work has spread to non-profits like American Photographic Arts where he's done work to get photographers various benefits. His skills are in SEO, app development, content planning, ethics management, photography, Wordpress, and other things. EDUCATION: Chris graduated Magna Cum Laude from Adelphi University with a degree in Communications in Journalism in 2009. Since then, he's learned and adapted to various things in the fields of social media, SEO, app development, e-commerce development, HTML, etc. FAVORITE SUBJECT TO PHOTOGRAPH: Chris enjoys creating conceptual work that makes people stare at his photos. But he doesn't get to do much of this because of the high demand of photography content. \/ BEST PHOTOGRAPHY TIP: Don't do it in post-production when you can do it in-camera.\",\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.thegampat.com\/\",\"https:\/\/x.com\/https:\/\/twitter.com\/chrisgampat\"],\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.thephoblographer.com\/author\/admin\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"There Will Always Be A Better Photograph","description":"No matter what, always know that you're going to shoot a better photograph in the future. So don't sweat the small stuff.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.thephoblographer.com\/2026\/01\/08\/there-will-always-be-a-better-photograph\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"There Will Always Be A Better Photograph","og_description":"No matter what, always know that you're going to shoot a better photograph in the future. So don't sweat the small stuff.","og_url":"https:\/\/www.thephoblographer.com\/2026\/01\/08\/there-will-always-be-a-better-photograph\/","og_site_name":"The Phoblographer","article_published_time":"2026-01-08T05:00:00+00:00","og_image":[{"width":2560,"height":1706,"url":"https:\/\/www.thephoblographer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/AlbertoLima_ThePhoblographer_Canon-EOS-R1-Review-Update_Product-Imagesedited_-NikonNIKON-Z6_3-NIKON-Z6_3-Ver.01.10-6048-x-4032-1-160-sec-at-f-4.0-35-mm-ISO-400-scaled.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Chris Gampat","schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.thephoblographer.com\/2026\/01\/08\/there-will-always-be-a-better-photograph\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.thephoblographer.com\/2026\/01\/08\/there-will-always-be-a-better-photograph\/"},"author":{"name":"Chris Gampat","@id":"https:\/\/www.thephoblographer.com\/#\/schema\/person\/50369a9b593d98d0dbb6bd2da8e848b4"},"headline":"There Will Always Be A Better Photograph","datePublished":"2026-01-08T05:00:00+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.thephoblographer.com\/2026\/01\/08\/there-will-always-be-a-better-photograph\/"},"wordCount":628,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.thephoblographer.com\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.thephoblographer.com\/2026\/01\/08\/there-will-always-be-a-better-photograph\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.thephoblographer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/AlbertoLima_ThePhoblographer_Canon-EOS-R1-Review-Update_Product-Imagesedited_-NikonNIKON-Z6_3-NIKON-Z6_3-Ver.01.10-6048-x-4032-1-160-sec-at-f-4.0-35-mm-ISO-400-scaled.jpg","keywords":["camera","Diane Arbus","Lens cap","photograph"],"articleSection":["Photography Culture"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.thephoblographer.com\/2026\/01\/08\/there-will-always-be-a-better-photograph\/","url":"https:\/\/www.thephoblographer.com\/2026\/01\/08\/there-will-always-be-a-better-photograph\/","name":"There Will Always Be A Better Photograph","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.thephoblographer.com\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.thephoblographer.com\/2026\/01\/08\/there-will-always-be-a-better-photograph\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.thephoblographer.com\/2026\/01\/08\/there-will-always-be-a-better-photograph\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.thephoblographer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/AlbertoLima_ThePhoblographer_Canon-EOS-R1-Review-Update_Product-Imagesedited_-NikonNIKON-Z6_3-NIKON-Z6_3-Ver.01.10-6048-x-4032-1-160-sec-at-f-4.0-35-mm-ISO-400-scaled.jpg","datePublished":"2026-01-08T05:00:00+00:00","description":"No matter what, always know that you're going to shoot a better photograph in the future. So don't sweat the small stuff.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.thephoblographer.com\/2026\/01\/08\/there-will-always-be-a-better-photograph\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.thephoblographer.com\/2026\/01\/08\/there-will-always-be-a-better-photograph\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.thephoblographer.com\/2026\/01\/08\/there-will-always-be-a-better-photograph\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.thephoblographer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/AlbertoLima_ThePhoblographer_Canon-EOS-R1-Review-Update_Product-Imagesedited_-NikonNIKON-Z6_3-NIKON-Z6_3-Ver.01.10-6048-x-4032-1-160-sec-at-f-4.0-35-mm-ISO-400-scaled.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.thephoblographer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/AlbertoLima_ThePhoblographer_Canon-EOS-R1-Review-Update_Product-Imagesedited_-NikonNIKON-Z6_3-NIKON-Z6_3-Ver.01.10-6048-x-4032-1-160-sec-at-f-4.0-35-mm-ISO-400-scaled.jpg","width":2560,"height":1706,"caption":"This Canon EOS R1"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.thephoblographer.com\/2026\/01\/08\/there-will-always-be-a-better-photograph\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.thephoblographer.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"There Will Always Be A Better Photograph"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.thephoblographer.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.thephoblographer.com\/","name":"The Phoblographer","description":"The Future of Human Photography","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.thephoblographer.com\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.thephoblographer.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.thephoblographer.com\/#organization","name":"The Phoblographer","url":"https:\/\/www.thephoblographer.com\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.thephoblographer.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.thephoblographer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/cropped-logo-upscaled-the-phoblographer.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.thephoblographer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/cropped-logo-upscaled-the-phoblographer.png","width":512,"height":512,"caption":"The Phoblographer"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.thephoblographer.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/x.com\/phoblographer"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.thephoblographer.com\/#\/schema\/person\/50369a9b593d98d0dbb6bd2da8e848b4","name":"Chris Gampat","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.thephoblographer.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/a715baf25c44884c3a75d79f3b9b5af9d4a021718842cb96090acd5dcf4cc188?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/a715baf25c44884c3a75d79f3b9b5af9d4a021718842cb96090acd5dcf4cc188?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Chris Gampat"},"description":"Chris Gampat is the Editor in Chief, Founder, and Publisher of the Phoblographer. He provides oversight to all of the daily tasks, including editorial, administrative, and advertising work. Chris's editorial work includes not only editing and scheduling articles but also writing them himself. He's the author of various product guides, educational pieces, product reviews, and interviews with photographers. He's fascinated by how photographers create, considering the fact that he's legally blind.\/ HIGHLIGHTS: Chris used to work in Men's lifestyle and tech. He's a veteran technology writer, editor, and reviewer with more than 15 years experience. He's also a Photographer that has had his share of bylines and viral projects like \"Secret Order of the Slice.\" PAST BYLINES: Gear Patrol, PC Mag, Geek.com, Digital Photo Pro, Resource Magazine, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Finance, IGN, PDN, and others. EXPERIENCE: Chris Gampat began working in tech and art journalism both in 2008. He started at PCMag, Magnum Photos, and Geek.com. He founded the Phoblographer in 2009 after working at places like PDN and Photography Bay. He left his day job as the Social Media Content Developer at B&amp;H Photo in the early 2010s. Since then, he's evolved as a publisher using AI ethically, coming up with ethical ways to bring in affiliate income, and preaching the word of diversity in the photo industry. His background and work has spread to non-profits like American Photographic Arts where he's done work to get photographers various benefits. His skills are in SEO, app development, content planning, ethics management, photography, Wordpress, and other things. EDUCATION: Chris graduated Magna Cum Laude from Adelphi University with a degree in Communications in Journalism in 2009. Since then, he's learned and adapted to various things in the fields of social media, SEO, app development, e-commerce development, HTML, etc. FAVORITE SUBJECT TO PHOTOGRAPH: Chris enjoys creating conceptual work that makes people stare at his photos. But he doesn't get to do much of this because of the high demand of photography content. \/ BEST PHOTOGRAPHY TIP: Don't do it in post-production when you can do it in-camera.","sameAs":["https:\/\/www.thegampat.com\/","https:\/\/x.com\/https:\/\/twitter.com\/chrisgampat"],"url":"https:\/\/www.thephoblographer.com\/author\/admin\/"}]}},"modified_by":"Chris Gampat","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thephoblographer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/AlbertoLima_ThePhoblographer_Canon-EOS-R1-Review-Update_Product-Imagesedited_-NikonNIKON-Z6_3-NIKON-Z6_3-Ver.01.10-6048-x-4032-1-160-sec-at-f-4.0-35-mm-ISO-400-scaled.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thephoblographer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thephoblographer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thephoblographer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thephoblographer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thephoblographer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thephoblographer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thephoblographer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thephoblographer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thephoblographer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thephoblographer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}