Lens-artists Challenge #347 – Break the Rules!

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Ritva hosts this weeks challenge and invites us to post images that break the traditional rules of photography. Like Ritva I’ve struggled to find examples. I predominantly shoot images for stock so I’m always shooting on thirds with copy space and headings in mind. I have found a few images, shown below, and I’ve captioned them with why I think they break the rules. Here’s a link to Ritva’s challenge post.

An out of focus abstract experiment of yellow cabs in Times Square NYC. I think it works ok.
A friendly horse I stumbled across whilst out walking. It’s a portrait shot with a very wide angle lens with the subject placed right in the centre of the frame
Just some colourful clothes pegs with the subject running straight across the middle of the frame.
This was shot with my Samyang fish eye lens. It curves the verticals towards the edges of the frame but I love this lens and use it a lot.
This image breaks its own rules. It’s my footprint on a beach. It works as an optical illusion and sometimes looks like a raised footprint rather than an impression in the sand. It can flick between depressed and raised, depending on the viewer.

That’s me done. Thanks to Ritva for hosting and I look forward to reading everyone else’s blogs.

All images: ©Stephen Hyde 2007-2025 – All rights reserved

19 thoughts on “Lens-artists Challenge #347 – Break the Rules!”

  2. Great job on the horse! That angle is so funny. The footprint is quite an illusion. For the life of me I couldn’t focus on the impression, it was only raised, until I scrolled back over it and saw impression. Really cool shot. Contrast playing tricks!

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    • Thank you Sofia. That foot in the sand shot is wired. It came up as a small, icon size image, when I was looking for challenge pics on my iPad mini. As a small image is was flicking in and out all the time. It stays raised for me as well as a larger image 🙂

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