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Rules in photography

If the photographer wants that people would understand his work, maybe not all, at least people close to him and his intellectual level of artistic taste, he must use all the available techniques and "rules" to emphasize found or established connection between the objects. I put "rules" in quotation marks, because each photographer's work creates its own set of rules, which is much wider than their conventional set. This fact has long been established in the theory of literature and art history, and it's time to take a worthy place in the photography.

Fortunately, the masters have realized this long time ago, perhaps intuitively, and thanks to their intuition we have many masterpieces with broken "rules". "What we must understand is that following the rules will only take us so far. In photography, you will find that rules help you in the beginning, and some rules will stay with you all the way through your career. The trick is to understand when the rules don’t apply, or when you should choose to ignore them. This is the type of knowledge that can’t easily be taught. It comes with experience, and is what gives you individuality as a photographer".

But, even with all the variety of techniques used in our work, the artist must always be prepared for the possibility that from thousands of audience in our circle, there will be only one or two  to understand our work.

Reference:

Andrew Goodall. Picturecorrect: photography rules are made to be broken. (http://www.picturecorrect.com/tips/creative-photography-tips-techniques/)

(Accessed: 7 May, 2013)