Most of these little rules are intended for beginners. Don't cut off Aunt Tillie's head. Always have the sun over your shoulder. Compose with the rule of thirds. They are basic, how not to fuck up your photo rules.
Once you have them down then you can experiment to your hearts content, but by then you are no longer a beginner, are you?
Next, you do your own damn thing, because you are now an artist.
Finally, you combine them all, because you have something to say and that is what it take to get the message across. You have nothing to prove to anyone. If a simple snapshot tells the story you use a simple snapshot. If it takes a wild surrealistic avant-garde photo to say it that is what you use. Not too many ever reach this point. Many don't even realize it exists.
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Shel Belinkoff wrote:
Sometimes accidents make great photos ... and the photog learns something new.
graywolf wrote:
The first rule is: never break these rules ACCIDENTALLY.
-- graywolf http://graywolfphoto.com
"You might as well accept people as they are, you are not going to be able to change them anyway."
