Hmm. Not too many replies yet. I hope we have not called it a day already saying that is is too hard?
Hmm. Not too many replies yet. I hope we have not called it a day already saying that is is too hard?
Originally Posted by Flaming
Me too! []Still, I expect lots of people have been busy with their holiday arrangements.
5d II, Canon 24-70, iso 1600, 68mm, f/3.2, 1/200 sec
Strobist: Nikon SB-600 bare flash @ 1/4, 50mm, behind subject (duh), triggered with Pocketwizard Plus II.
Rule: Never shoot into your lightsource, broke it on accident!
By the way, I dig the wicked flare in crosbyharbison's volleyball player photo.
Maybe it would help if someone would post some examples of the rules of photography? As a beginner I am sure I often break these rules without even realizing it!
Stephen
I took a shot tonight that must have broken every single rule there is, aside from rule #1 (Go out and take some pictures!) My wife just shut down the other computer with all the Canon software on it, so I can't even verify it's worth posting to this thread (though I'm sure it's more anembarrassmentthan anything)
We were driving downtown, past the Canadianparliamentbuildings. I was in the back seat of the van with our daughter, who had conveniently fallen asleep before we got downtown. We were just turning around, and heading home, when the camera was thrust into my hands with the nifty-fifty attached. Now, the 50mm wouldn't have been wide enough from our location on the road, even if I had ample opportunity to frame the shot, but ample opportunity wasn't available.
The back windows are tinted, so as we went past, I leaned forward to be somewhat between the front seats, and framed the shot out the corner of my eye as we drove past. The front passenger window I shot through was semi-ice, snow, salt, and slushed covered. Myimpeccabletiming managed to get a nice wide stone fence pillar covering one of the two parts of the building lit with coloured lights. A good 1/3 of the building is off the right hand side of the frame, omitting the two other colored parts. Atleast half, likely more, of the peace tower is off the top of the frame. The horizon isn't level. Because it was night, the shutter speed was low, the shot contains both motion blur due to the driving, and camera shake blur due to bouncing around in a moving van. There were obviously no composition rules applied, such as the rule of third.
If our goal is to break as many rules as possible, my shot may do it... however I think the point is to have an awesome shot despite breaking a rule... which is why I'm in no rush to upload it.
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It sounds fascinating, David - I'd love to see it!
Please, don't hold this photo against me in the future... you asked for it.
T1i+50mm f/1.8 @ f/2.2, 1/80s, ISO 3200. I can't really say I intentionally broke composition rules here, but I can't really claim I was attempting to follow any either.
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That's a really good question - but it would take a very long entry to list them all. Browse through any photography technique book, or a site such as this to get some idea.
The thing is, rules are designed to get you to conform to a certain standard of photography and that standard can be quite different depending on what artistic aesthetic you are striving for. I find the best way to approach this is to take or find a picture that you previously took that differs strikingly from the type of picture you are most comfortable taking. I think we all take certain assumptions and expectations with us when we go to photograph - to break with those is most certainly breaking the rules, even if they are only your rules.
My entry is going to violate the same rule as CrosbyHarbison... shooting into your light source... except, sadly, mine is a fairly common violation of that rule.
T1i + 18-55mm IS, @ 51mm f/11, 1/125s, ISO 200.
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