>I agree with all you have to say about how rules can be such a hindrence >to work...it hampers exploration to do what someone else has deemed 'safe' >and ends up leaving a photographer less than he/she could have been had they >just followed their inner eye. Lea Well, this list is primarily about education, so this is actually very relavent. "Rules" Heck who needs them. Modern educational theorists eschew such consepts as rools of spellink and gwammar. Hoo cares? It's creativitee (wiv ore wivout the apostrophy-s) that counts. Gon are the days when our betters were spected to speak "English". It's become the rule they use what werds they like, how they lick whenever they like. Indeed, when such philosophy crosses to the art world - teaching becomes much more efficient. Instead of wasting time learning about the renaiss-sommat, cubism, dada-ism ... you just hand the students a brush and say "be creative". Or is pure Doo-doo ism the result? There is no more formal teaching - studying what others have done before might risk constraining their vision. Artists, sadly, have always rebelled against the rules of the day: this gives us a dilemma: and underlines Qkano's paradox: "Without rules there is no art". Photographers - "wannabe artists" - the same applies. Personally: I think from now on I will make all my pictures out of focus, subject and horizon dead centre, exposure (leave that to the camera). I've just written a little script to apply random arbitrary rotation to images so the horizons will never be level, and to select random Filters from CS2's selection before finally printing them on bog paper. Woe betide anyone who fails to give my work the glowing, artistic, praise it deserves from now on. You Vill say nice things about my Verk!!! Q __________________________________________________________________ 1Mb Tiscali Broadband for £14.99. Offer ends 30th June 2005 http://www.tiscali.co.uk/products/broadband
