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06/10/2010 11:08:10 PM · #1
Sometimes rules are useful: rules of composition, of color coordination, of the proper relationship between reality and photograph. And sometimes they just get in the way.

This thread is meant for those photos that don't conform. Post away!

So here's my offering:

06/10/2010 11:12:46 PM · #2
ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh fun!!! I sometimes like to go gaga in editting LOL
06/10/2010 11:29:22 PM · #3
I felt this one broke a few rules of composition, the way the subjects are around the edges and the sky in the middle of the frame. Seems to work for me, though.

06/10/2010 11:39:10 PM · #4

This one broke photo rules, and the law of gravity. Dead center, with the horizon in the center, subject small in the frame. At least the horizon is level.
Basic edit, no funny stuff.
06/10/2010 11:41:38 PM · #5
Interesting idea. Breaking the rules...honestly, I'm not sure it can be done. The rules are very much a matter of perspective. I can find examples of obeying rules quite easily:


Fantastic use of complementary colors. The overall composition is quite nice between the water and the sky, it really draws me in.


Good use of the buildings to frame the sky.

:) I dunno...just my viewpoint.

06/11/2010 12:04:34 AM · #6
Rules... wait there are rules? :-0

Message edited by author 2010-06-11 00:05:15.
06/11/2010 08:59:08 AM · #7
Originally posted by tehben:

Rules... wait there are rules? :-0


Oh, I think so. In a kindly comment in post #6050959, Paul pointed out that my technicolor landscape yet still conformed to rules about color usage. I can agree with that, although I think there are other rules it doesn't follow. Perhaps it's impossible to break all the rules at once, but you can break at least a few at a time.
06/11/2010 09:06:03 AM · #8
Here's my photo from 'Rule of Thirds', which broke the 'Rule of Thirds'

06/11/2010 09:20:49 AM · #9
So if I submit something that follows the traditional rules would that be a DNMC? And then in effect fit in perfectly here?
06/11/2010 09:21:42 AM · #10
Originally posted by bohemka:

So if I submit something that follows the traditional rules would that be a DNMC? And then in effect fit in perfectly here?


Either you can't lose... or you can't win. Take your pick!
06/11/2010 09:30:10 AM · #11
Rules are made to be broken so I treat em more as guidelines...basically nobody liked my loft apartment , this poor wineglass got kicked around for being high-contrast, and let's face it, horse's heads tend to look funny enough, but I got the feeling this ol gal knew exactly how that boot got up there, and she's not telling...

I have the most fun messing with perspective and leading lines.

Message edited by author 2010-06-11 09:39:21.
06/11/2010 09:57:19 AM · #12
My most AWESOME photo:
06/11/2010 10:08:04 AM · #13


Rules broken: burned out, over exposed, tilted, no real subject(s).

A few pointed out that this was too bright and burned out. Maybe so, but I made it like this purposely and love it (-:
06/11/2010 10:23:46 AM · #14
Originally posted by TrollMan:



Rules broken: burned out, over exposed, tilted, no real subject(s).

A few pointed out that this was too bright and burned out. Maybe so, but I made it like this purposely and love it (-:


That is a very cool photo!
06/11/2010 10:34:19 AM · #15
The horizon splits the image in the middle, but there was no choice...


06/11/2010 11:52:00 AM · #16
I don't think there's a rule I didn't break with this edit - BUT I like the end result! HAHAHA!

06/11/2010 04:21:14 PM · #17
Originally posted by yakatme:

The horizon splits the image in the middle, but there was no choice...



Shoehorn!
06/11/2010 05:05:01 PM · #18
This one broke ALL the rules. (Including taste)

I think it was my 2nd or 3rd challenge.
8-)
06/11/2010 05:06:56 PM · #19
Originally posted by Luci11e:

My most AWESOME photo:


(horse)shoehorn
;-)
06/11/2010 05:07:58 PM · #20
The lesson not yet fully grasped is that if we have indeed something to say, it will find its form.
Bauhaus had this as function is form.
Some Edward Dahlberg had it as form follows content.
The Buddhist say form is emptiness, emptiness form.

What the Buddhists mean, the way I see it is, that
a) before something can enter the mind, that mind needs to have room to accommodate it; and
b) that only an empty mind can realize its full capacity
06/11/2010 07:12:13 PM · #21
Originally posted by zeuszen:

The lesson not yet fully grasped is that if we have indeed something to say, it will find its form.


I can only hope you're right. The alternative is lingering frustration at the inability to communicate properly.

And in the process, I think you've come up with a good way of restating my reason for starting this thread: that this thread is for those things that we have found to say, that have found their form, and done so in unconventional ways.
06/11/2010 07:16:55 PM · #22
I would but it was erased from the site, but not the mind.
06/11/2010 07:22:42 PM · #23
Originally posted by littlegett:

I would but it was erased from the site, but not the mind.


What about this one?

06/11/2010 11:00:44 PM · #24
Originally posted by mycelium:

...this thread is for those things that we have found to say, that have found their form, and done so in unconventional ways.


In looking through my port, I found surprisingly much within the rules and very little outside of them.
The first one (left) applies a crime-scene perspective to a living portrait, while following compositional orthodoxy;
in the second one (right), the shapes are composed the way they were and came, completely outside of any compositional measures I'm aware of, while light and dark, if we include the tonalities, are acceptably balanced.


06/11/2010 11:18:18 PM · #25
OK, I have many of them...

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