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Break the Rules!
So now that I’ve given you all of these great rules to follow when composing your image,
the last rule I’m going to tell you is to break all of them! Don’t think that you always need
to keep an image off-center or that you have to photograph children at their level all the
time (Figure 4.14). Experiment and find new ways to capture your images—you just might
find that breaking the rules was the best thing you could have done for your image.
Figure 4.14
Breaking rules can
sometimes yield
great results—this
image was photo-
graphed from high
up, a perspective
from which usually
you would not pho-
tograph children.
ISO 100 • 1/1000 sec. •
f/2.8 • 40mm lens
