shutterhack

The "rules", as I see it, are specific formulas or recipes that attempt to isolate and define elements of human perception that make an interesting or pleasing composition. Knowledge and use of these rules might yield some worthy results, but without an innate understanding of the underlying processes that these rules refer to, the imagemaker (artist or photographer or painter or sculptor or musician...) will never achieve consistently great results. An internalized sense of these processes is the goal, bypassing (and surpassing) the external imposition of "rules".