Between rules and my "Braing" (Me against the criticism)

alaios

Hi,
this is not just a post sharing.. it is more sharing bits of my brain and the way I feel about photography.
To start with lets have a look in a shot (three different crops)











What you just saw above is a bottom centerish (no it is not exactly at center) crop and two at the sides. If you go out and ask people which you like more, they would pick (probably, well this is a "confident-guess") the bird at the right.
There are reasons for that (rule of thirds) and other you know perhaps much better than me.

The reason I made this post is that the inside me says that the right (right here means: what it feels artistically correct for just me) is the first crop.. If someone asks me why I think that I can explain but for now I just wanted to share this loneliness feeling when I am creating something that is just my self alone in the universe.. and other can not see a shot the way I shot it and shared it.

Do you also have the same feeling in this universe?

Feel free to give any direction to this thread.
Regards
Alex

The Lazy Destroyer

Personally of these presented I lean towards the third one.

This is my own take on it, nothing right/wrong about it, IMO.

There are always rules and guidelines when it comes to composition but in the end, the Photographer is the one that controls the camera and they really should stick with how they want the shot to be done. If you have a customer then maybe it's best to do it the way they would want, but if we are talking about someone making art then it would make sense to compose it however you want the shot represented. You would hope the great artists of the past like van Gogh and Picasso painted what they felt was best and not what others wanted them to do.

The Lazy Destroyer

This also kind of reminds me of a piece Rick Rubin wrote about producing some of the bands he has worked with in the past. And about directing the music in the direction it needed to go in:

"The idea is to allow an artist to see themselves as greater than they thought. Or break down any pre-conceived idea of what they think they’re supposed to be. That’s a big part of it. Take away the self-imposed limitations that artists have for whatever reason. A lot of them are like, “Well this is really what I like because I’m gonna do this because this is what I think someone else is gonna like.”

Sometimes it’s the opposite, where artists have gotten so experimental that they’ve lost the core of what makes them them. And then in those cases, I’ll try to redirect them back. The example might be Metallica. They were kind of lost before and we helped get them back to being Metallica."

-Rick Rubin

alaios

What a great answer. Thanks for your time spent sharing this
Regards
Alex