While at Brooks, we got the “rules” of photography pounded into our heads. And after a year and a half of that bludgeoning I think I began to burn out on the whole photography by numbers thing. I value the education and the emphasis on mastering those rules and by extension, understanding the intricacies of controlling the variables that photography presents, but I still needed a break.
It was then, that I departed Santa Barbara for a summer of escape in Door County , Wisconsin in an exercise of breaking the rules. And I’ll only admit to the photographic ones. Here is what could be considered my very first attempt.
July 25th, 2007 at 5:21 pm
I have to say I was never taught THE RULES and if I had been I’m sure I wouldn’t have conformed to them. I guess being self taught I come form that school of if it looks good shoot it! I hate talk of thirds and all that shit. I hate analysis it’s either a good photo or it isn’t…who made these rules???