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Old 10-10-2008, 07:50 AM
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I quess you can never go wrong following the rules, but I think that it has a better balance cropping it your way. Thank you for your help
I would go further than that and say you can definitely go wrong following the rules if you apply them mechanically. With a rule like a speed limit, you're either following it or breaking it, and could receive a penalty for breaking it if you are caught. With rules of photography, you pick which of the common guidelines you want to apply and then put your work on display for others to see. You can't put numbers on it and thus it is a completely different sense of the word "rule".

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