Photography for Beginners  Knowing When to Break the Rules

The ability of photography are numerous and varied. The art, technology, patience, technical skill and talent all come into play.

As a beginner, it would be wonderful if this could be explained by a simple set of rules that were easy to understand. Surely someone could say that the opening of use in a given situation or how the structure of a composition to achieve the best results every time?

The picture is very similar to learning to drive. With a machine, you must know the rules of behavior, and you must know the basic skills of handling, acceleration and braking. These can be learned easily with a little ‘practice. But even if you learn the essentials you need to know your car, because each machine is a bit ‘different. Then, you need experience with driving at night, driving in wet weather, driving off-road …

What you should understand is that the rules in force only six so far. Pictured is the rules to help at first, and some rules will stay with throughout his career. The trick is to understand where the rules do not apply, or when you choose to ignore them. This is the kind of knowledge is not easy to teach. It comes with experience, and this gives indiduality as a photographer.

Here are some rules for an expert photographer, are made to be broken.

Photography Rule # 1. Photos must be taken outside in the early morning or late afternoon. This is one of the first principles of landscape photography, and can be applied to almost any outdoor photography. The sweetness and the warm color of sunlight at this time, adds beauty and character almost everywhere. It also creates, however, much lower, which allows you to avoid the harsh shadows and overexposure of the highlights of your photos.

When can we break this rule? I can immediately think of two situations.

Black and white photography is defined by opposition, instead of subtle color, so they often want stronger shadows to create the best image. For this reason, the black and white photos are often best taken closer to the middle of the day, when the light is stronger.

Rainforest photography is also the best in the middle of the day, but this time I do not want sunlight, cloudy days you want to create a nice even light throughout the forest. Otherwise, the spots of light that penetrates through the canopy will create “hot spots” in his image.

Photography Rule # 2.The ‘rule of thirds. The Rule of Thirds is an excellent guide for a beginner learning about composition. In simple terms, the picture is divided into three parts vertically and horizontally. The demarcation lines are the best places to position long objects in an image (like the trees and the horizon). The points where the lines meet are the most effective places to position smaller objects with greater impact.

The photos were taken under the rule of thirds is balanced. To respect our natural sense of visual order and simply look ‘right. Unfortunately, the world is not so easy to hold in the norm, making it impossible for nature to take pictures like that. And sometimes you can decide to ignore the rule, giving greater impact to the photo of shaking the normal balance of the composition.

When can we break this rule? Here is an obvious example, but I’m sure you can think of many others.

Sunset photos feature silhoettes sky and foreground color. If you have a spectacular sky is really no way to fill one third of the images with the empty darkness. You can choose to tilt the camera to make a feature of the sky and reduce the area covered by the first floor.

Rule No. 3. Your Lightmeter always right. Most times you can trust the photometer. If you indicate that the photo is well exposed, it is likely that … but not always.

When can we break this rule? When a large difference in light levels between subject and environment.

E ‘possible to photograph a person, animal, flower, etc. in full sunlight, but the bottom is the shadow. It ‘a very effective way to highlight the theme of the environment. In this situation, different levels of light are forced to deceive photometer. In fact, if you take your picture in order, the subject is likely to be overexposed. The best approach is to turn the camera on manual and set the aperture or shutter speed until the photo is underexposed by one or two stops. This darkens the background and put the question on the perfect exposure.

You can see a pattern developing here? The rules are there for a reason, and improve their skills by leaps and bounds if you learn and practice. But once done, you’re ready to take the next step. Start experimenting outside the rules and see where it leads. Know and follow the rules will make you a good photographer. Choose when and how to break to become even better.

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