Re: A more outrageous question

[MichaelHughes7A@xxxxxxx]

In a message dated 18/07/2007 18:46:49 GMT Standard Time, herschelmair@xxxxxxxxx writes:

My humble opinion is that you can't choose to remove it from the equation so you must choose to act with it or against it. but one way or another there's  no way to go back to totally free, fully intuitive comosition.

Maybe this depends on whether you regard the rule of thirds as a cardinal rule for making a picture or as an explanation of why a picture looks good.   

 

You can 'know' it is not a good thing to take a picture into the sun, and yet appreciate. or even take a 'contre jour shot' to highlight a blonde subject's hair.

 

Maybe Herschel would like to comment on his Tuna fish postcard which many of us saw. Was that a winner because he thought about the rule of thirds or because the judges knew about the rule?

 

Michael