A list of 'The Rules'

[leight]

I've been looking through this forum today, finding threads about rules and breaking the rules - and I thought it would be a good idea to make a thread listing all the 'rules' - and links to relavent threads about them. I don't know many 'rules', so this could help me, as well as other beginners out too.

Rule of Thirds
DPS Forum: Rule of Thirds (http://digital-photography-school.com/forum/showthread.php?t=6&highlight=rule+of+thirds)
DPS Blog: Rule of Thirds (http://digital-photography-school.com/blog/rule-of-thirds/)

The Golden Ratio
DPS FORUM: The Golden Ratio (http://digital-photography-school.com/forum/showthread.php?t=191&highlight=rule)
Wikipedia: Golden Ratio (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_ratio)

Breaking All the Rules
DPS Forum: Breaking All the Rules (http://digital-photography-school.com/forum/showthread.php?t=234&highlight=rules)

Quotes
SteevDavis62: (http://digital-photography-school.com/forum/member.php?u=1118) "There are no rules to photography! But these are the rules you should stick too until you learn how to break the rules. Because good photographers abide by the rules, but great photographers break them all, but break them in a way that works" - from 'Breaking All the Rules' thread. (http://digital-photography-school.com/forum/showthread.php?t=234&page=2&highlight=rules)

I've probably missed many 'rules' that exist here on the boards, and on the web - so feel free to post up others that you have found :)

- leighton

[steevdavis62]

hey... its a good idea. I am also a novice at photography. And for that qoute, i must thank my photography lecturer Martin Pieris. But im glad you liked it, cheers