This week's challenge is a bit more of a free-form challenge. Basically, think of a rule you've heard of in photography and show us a photo that breaks that "rule". It could be rule of thirds, always focus on the eyes, stuff like that!
Why must a portrait always show the face?
Canon EOS 7D mark II, 97 mm, f/4, 1/640 sec, ISO 100
Lying on the ground, shooting upside down with the sun somewhere...
Sculpture of Eric Fonteneau : https://www.levoyageanantes.fr/oeuvres/un-arbre-la-foret/#:~:text=Pr%C3%A9mices%20au%20dicton%20%C2%AB%20 l'arbre,sous%20un%20halo%20d'%C3%A9clairage.
Nikon D800, AF-S Nikkor 18-35mm f/3.5-4.5G ED
Shutter Speed : 1/250 second(s)
Aperture : F/9.0
Focal Length : 18.0 mm
ISO Speed : 100
Date Taken : 2014:07:19 20:07:45
Always a question: Color or B/W - why not both of them?!?
Canon EOS 7D mark II, 14 mm, f/6.3, 1/640 sec, ISO 100
Do birds always have to sit on a perch? No they also can hang on a feeder ;-)
Canon EOS 7D mark II, 560 mm, f/8, 1/1000 sec, ISO 3200
Balanced composition??? What if it isn't SUPPOSED to be balanced?
Backlit. Shot through glass. Crow is on the other side of a limb at a distance. High(ish) ISO. Background intersects with the subject in some disturbing ways. Odd wing placement for the crow. But it does have rule of 3rds... so not entirely out of order. NEVER MORE! (Poe reference.)
How many rules did this photo break? For starters: Do not blow out highlights. Late in the day photograph with the sun behind you shining light on the scene. And others.... As a learning exercise, I broke rules to get photos of this building. I will go back at other times of the day and night [and break fewer rules] to take photographs with better compositions of this subject.
Nikon D7200 @ 28mm ISO 640 1/50 f/8 spot metering
Polarizer abuse. Rotating the polarizer to deliberately get a contrast within the blue sky around sundown - reinforcing the contrast of the two trees. Oh, and the annoying bit of grass to the right photobombing the picture. I want to go back there and play with this idea more.
View on darchoks from spinning wheel, Drukpa Plouray, France
One my first attempts to shoot the motion of the spinning wheel. No tripod the camera is just lying on a balustrade.
Rules broken: main subject underexposed only the pillar on the right gets decent exposition, no rule of thirds, sky blown
Nikon D600, AF-S Zoom Nikkor 24-70mm f2.8G ED, ISO 100, 66 mm, f22 (to lower speed without ND filter), 1.0 s
Used tungsten white balance outdoors!
Breaking all Jason's rules. (Five Easy Things to Avoid in Bird Photography)
- Bird intersected by foreground
- Nictating membrane visible
- One eye not barely but completely invisible
- Tail never seen
- Thousand of out of focus straight line
More seriously. The photo below is technically wrong, because there is some grass that intersect the bird. But is so out of focus that - in my opinion - make it more real. I know that bird photographers are tearing their clothes, but .......I like it.
Nikon Z7II. Nikon Z 180-600mm f/5.6-6.3 VR @ 470 mm. ISO 500 f/7.1 1/640 sec
