Break them with gusto!
Pasar Kedai Payang, originally uploaded by Fadzly Mubin.
Taken with a Nikon D50 and Nikon 70-300mm f/4-5.6G lens
Break them with gusto! Break them like you mean it! Break them like you don't care! Every time I start to half believe this rules nonsense I run across a photo that blatantly breaks the rules and somehow works perfectly. I have seen photos in which a model stands in the center of the frame, directly facing the camera, that could not be improved on by moving the model to one third or the other, or turning her body to the side.
Moreover, reducing an art form to a mathematic formula just seems wrong. If Faulkner had played by the rules (no run-on sentences, you must capitalize sentences, you must use traditional punctuation) some of America's greatest literature would have lost much of its passion.
The viewer's eye is full of insecurities and illusions. You can either be traditional and nurture those insecurities, or you can be an innovator and throw a stone at the viewer just to watch them duck. Either way, great work can be produced.
I am a little confused by the horizon talk anyway. I thought that the horizon was wherever the sky met the land or the sea. I live near many hills and mountains, so with a level gaze I often see 80% below the horizon and 20% above. And if you have a level gaze but are standing on a downward or upward slope, what then?
Labels: AF Zoom-Nikkor 70-300mm f/4-5.6G, Nikon D50, Philosophy of Photography, Photography
