Good question Michael.
Well I don't remember what I was thinking (Or IF I was thinking) when I made that picture But I do know that I generally have a million things going through my head when I'm looking through the camera at my subject.
I tell my students that I am not a great photographer but I am a pretty good technician and that has paid to put two children through university (One with a BA hons in photography BTW) it has taken me around the world more than once, bought two houses, cars and put food on the table for almost 30 years.
The whole purpose of my original post was not to discover whether the rule of thirds is valid or whether technology is necessary per se. I merely gave thirds as an example of a simple rule we all know.
The topic was whether rules, formulae, statistics and technical knowledge of all things photographic could
ever, conceivably, get in the way of taking a great photograph.
" Photography has not changed since its origin except in its technical aspects, which for me are not important". -Henri Cartier-Bresson
MichaelHughes7A@xxxxxxx wrote:
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
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