Breaking the Rules

Like many people have said before me, 'you have to know the rules in order to break the rules'.  My photography group decided to do a 'Break the Rules' assignment.  We used Freeman Patterson's ideas on rule breaking.   He gives many ideas about breaking the rules in his book, Photography and the Art of Seeing.  We chose to use techniques like shutter opening and moving the camera either up and down or across or in a circle.

This shot was taken in East Tennessee. I took about 50-60 shots that day.  I found that looking at the pictures on the screen on the back of my Canon wasn't very helpful.  It wasn't until I downloaded the images until I found a few I liked.  This image was taken out of the back of a moving car interestingly enough (I wasn't driving).  I left the shuttle open and then.... (I can't tell you the rest.... you have to be creative and figure out some things for yourself!)