Pål wrote: >> If you have guidelines for yourself, fine. If other people find it helpful >> to use guidelines, fine. If other people find it interesting to deconstruct >> composition ex post facto, fine. They can do whatever they want. I can do >> whatever I want. You can do whatever you want. > > > You can't do whatever you want and created interesting or good images, something every > photographer have bitterly experienced. > > >> You know why? Because THERE >> ARE NO RULES. > > > If there are no rules, there are no good images as theres nothing separate between > them. After all, everything is possible so everything must be equally good. > Furthermore, if there are no rules every photographer is doomed to lifetime of > frustration as it is impossible to produce good images on a consistent basis as all > there is to it is pointing the camera in random direction and hope for luck. > > Pål
No, it is not about rules it is about awareness, what you are talking about. Certainly, knowing how the brain-eye system works helps to increase the awareness. But these are not rules. E.g. the "rule of the third" is not as "rule" it is sort of an the effect of how the brain-eye system works. An image may be felt as "good" because of following that "rule" or because of disregarding it depending on what you want to show. A good photograph is one that we remember. That is quite simple. Take 10 photographs you remember and you will see that every image is perceived as "good" for different reasons. Or "rules" in your diction - you can probably derive hundreds of "rules" from these 10 images. Quite obviously, it does not work like this. Photography is about seeing, awareness, imagination and "understanding" (I mean "understanding" the story behind the picture) ... Enjoy, Alexander __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com
