Rules vs Guidelines
Jan 15, 2020 11:55:20 #
User ID wrote:
Seems to be very little grasp br around here of a... (show quote)
Love the artistic bent to the statement. You might want to correct the "Rule of tirds," which is actually funny if read as "turds," if you use it again! Or maybe, in some cases, it is the "Rule of turds."
Jan 15, 2020 12:15:12 #
MrMophoto
Loc: Rhode Island "The biggest little"
I specifically used the term division so as to not infer it as a "rule" . In my photo classes I also use the term division because as I explain it to my classes there are no hard rules in photography or art.
Jan 15, 2020 12:20:05 #
Jan 15, 2020 12:56:27 #
In life, there are two kinds of prople, people who need rules and find themessential for life, and those who don't have any and do quite well.
For me there are very few rules. It can all be condensed down to one or two, don't do anything stupid, and don't be an a=hole.
For me there are very few rules. It can all be condensed down to one or two, don't do anything stupid, and don't be an a=hole.
Jan 15, 2020 14:19:44 #
TheShoe
Loc: Lacey, WA
BigDaddy wrote:
The exception proves the rule, ...
Wrong, any exception disproves the rule.
Jan 15, 2020 14:56:56 #
AZNikon
Loc: Mesa, AZ
I couldn't find acoarst in the dictionary. But I love the symmetry you've created with words. Well done! 
Jan 15, 2020 15:32:50 #
nadelewitz wrote:
Rule or guideline?.....
"Of course" should not be spelled "acoarst".
"Of course" should not be spelled "acoarst".
Well, acoarst !
But rules are for other people.
OTOH, as a rule, we ignore Grammar Nazi guidelines.
Jan 15, 2020 15:33:49 #
AZNikon wrote:
I couldn't find acoarst in the dictionary.......
I couldn't find acoarst in the dictionary.......
Well acoarst not. It ain't there ;-)
Jan 15, 2020 15:54:48 #
via the lens wrote:
Love the artistic bent to the statement. You
might want to correct the "Rule of tirds," which
is actually funny if read as "turds," if you use it
again! Or maybe, in some cases, it is the "Rule
of turds."
Love the artistic bent to the statement. You
might want to correct the "Rule of tirds," which
is actually funny if read as "turds," if you use it
again! Or maybe, in some cases, it is the "Rule
of turds."
Thank you. I briefly did consider the "u"
but it was too blatant ... and possibly a
bridge too far from the original spelling.
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Some peeps identify "non-Pro" cameras
by the presence of a pop-up flash, some
by the Ultra Auto Green mode, or by the
presence of Scene mode or Artsy Filters.
I guess I'm the only one that includes a
Rule of Tirds grid in the Display Options
as an indicator of its "non-Pro" ranking.
You could call that a Guideline but I call
it a Rule ;-)
Jan 15, 2020 16:27:20 #
Jan 15, 2020 16:33:44 #
via the lens wrote:
Love the artistic bent to the statement. You might want to correct the "Rule of tirds," which is actually funny if read as "turds," if you use it again! Or maybe, in some cases, it is the "Rule of turds."
There was a day when the younger me slavishly followed the rule of turds. In time I realized that my photos looked just like everyone else's. So I thres that rule into the dustbin of history. I have shot some of my best amd best liked photos in violation of every compositional rule.
when I got a Hasselblad xPan I again violated rules and produced some exceptional work, then I got a real Hasselblad, and took to shooting a square format to good results.
I think rules sentence us to a life of mediocrity.
Jan 15, 2020 16:57:42 #
Jan 15, 2020 19:00:05 #
Guidelines are suggestions that you should follow the rules. Rules do not allow you to follow suggestions. One of Yogi’s suggestions was “When you come to a fork in the road, take it.” Wait, is that rule. Not sure, but it is likely moot, since you don’t have a choice. Well, maybe you could turn around.
Hope I have sufficiently confused the topic!
Hope I have sufficiently confused the topic!
Jan 15, 2020 21:09:18 #
CHG_CANON wrote:
Rules are for the other people.
To quote Gold Hat:
"Rules? We don't need no stinkin' rules."
Jan 16, 2020 00:27:19 #
fantom wrote:
To quote Gold Hat:
"Rules? We don't need no stinkin' rules."
"Rules? We don't need no stinkin' rules."
Ah, Gold Hat. Won a few rounds of trivia with that one. Won a few more with the follow-up of who played him. 😀
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