From the course: The Practicing Photographer

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Composing in the center

Composing in the center

- We all hear a lot of rules about photography and very often these rules are not given to us, ya know, with a slap on the knuckles with a ruler or something, but they're meant to be guidelines and helpful. So, we have the rule of thirds, and we're told, "Never shoot into the light" and things like that. But the fact is, sometimes the rule of thirds is a lousy composition and often times shooting into the light gives you spectacular results with nice back-lighting and cool silhouettes and all that kinda thing. You can say, "Well, rules were meant to be broken." I don't know if I'd go that far but, rules are definitely meant to be questioned and they're meant to be challenged and they're meant to be worked to the point where you konw when you can use them and when you can't. And one of the rules that you may have heard, or that you may have given to yourslef is do not compose with something in the dead center of the frame. I think we're told that, but I think a lot of people come into…

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