"I've got a life sentence for breaking the rules of composition............what are you in for?"

Breaking the rules is not as easy as songs about teenage angst, delinquents and pro-peer pressure motivational speakers make it out to be. Well... at least not the rules of composition. Taking a photo successfully breaking the rules of composition AND looking beautiful at the same time have proved to be difficult while shooting for this assignment. In order for me to get a "so good it's bad" photograph,...

Geometry is not true, it is advantageous. -Henri Poincare

I really like all the lines and shapes in this photo. When shooting this, I incorporated the flourescent lighting from above, the streetlights on the street (behind the window), moonlight and my own light source being a small light set up on subject's right. I used a Canon Rebel T2i with an 18-55mm lens, a shutter speed of 1/60s and an aperture of f7.0.  For this photo I used a variety of light...

Studio Frightening

For my studio lighting portrait photos, I didn't want to take 3 simple photographs of the subject smiling and "sitting pretty". Instead, I found inspiration (once again) from Halloween and the masks that people wear on this strange event. I wanted to add an element of confusion and wonder to each photograph to  make the viewer feel taken aback by the sight of the different distortions the subject...