Deadlines: you can’t live with them, you can’t live without them. …Or so the saying goes. The same is true when it comes to rules. And yet, deadlines and rules are intrinsic parts of our professional and personal lives.

Photography projects have deadlines. Photography has its own rules.

For example, the rules of image composition help us tell a visual story in the most powerful way possible. They are there not to confine us, but to be considered, and sometimes, even to be broken, in a creative way, that is.

What are your favorite or least favorite rules of image composition? Do you always ever break them? Feel free to share in the comments below.

As always, thanks for stopping by,

Alina Oswald