Any objections before I start?
not from me 🙂
But you “have specifically disclaimed any artistic ability” so perhaps at least considering why a composition works might go some way to improving your own.
no, I prefer to reject the concept and see what happens 🙂
But instead of just shrugging and defensively claiming that anyone who takes good, interesting, compositionally strong pictures is somehow cheating,
I’m not trying to defend myself, and I’m not saying that following the guildelines is cheating, or won’t work, just that all I’m interested in is the impact of the original scene as a gestalt, in an intuitive impulse, not a protracted analysis. I never said different approaches were wrong at all.
while the site was down I was thinking about the comment someone made about my shots lacking composition, which I take as a huge compliment, though in many cases, when I’m firing from a moving vehicle I’m just glad to get a clear shot of the sky without blurred vegetation, signposts and wires in the way 🙂