Light, composition, or subject. Landscape Photography
I also teach to use the entire frame (as I was taught). Not to crop much (if it all) later.
I want my students to find their own way of seeing, and not just become a copy of others. We have PLENTY of those already.
Matthew
Matthew L Kees
MLK Studios Photography School
www.MLKstudios.com
[email protected]
"Every artist, was once an amateur"
MLKstudios wrote: When it comes to the rules of composition, my own teaching "method" is based on subject alone. Do the other things in the frame support or distract from the subject? If they support the subject, leave them in (or add more of it), if they distract, take them out.
I also teach to use the entire frame (as I was taught). Not to crop much (if it all) later. I want my students to find their own way of seeing, and not just become a copy of others.
We have PLENTY of those already.
Matthew
Matthew
Matthew L Kees
MLK Studios Photography School
www.MLKstudios.com
[email protected]
"Every artist, was once an amateur"
Matthew L Kees
MLK Studios Photography School
www.MLKstudios.com
[email protected]
"Every artist, was once an amateur"
MLKstudios wrote: Have you noticed the price of cream these days!?!?
huh? Matthew L Kees
MLK Studios Photography School
www.MLKstudios.com
[email protected]
"Every artist, was once an amateur"
A study of "who" those people are will help, which helps to legitimize you in the eyes of the art critics.
Of course, you can do something "grand" that stands on its own, but I'd say that is a much tougher path to take. It would have to be pretty grand. The art critics would then argue if it is something truly valuable, or not.
At least till some well known, wealthy art "aficionado" bought something you made for a large sum of $$$, which would legitimize you immediately.
The best may be not to care too much, and keep making images that please you.
Matthew L Kees
MLK Studios Photography School
www.MLKstudios.com
[email protected]
"Every artist, was once an amateur"
PS if you've been to the Camera Obscura gallery in Denver, the curator, Hal Gould, had an early show of Adams and Weston's work for $25 a print. And sold NADA.
From his "wiki"...
"Early in his gallery career, Gould staged a show selling prints by Ansel Adams and Edward Weston for $25 apiece. There were no takers. Today, Weston's Green Pepper sells for $100,000 to $200,000 at auction."
Matthew L Kees
MLK Studios Photography School
www.MLKstudios.com
[email protected]
"Every artist, was once an amateur"
MLKstudios wrote: Was a "simile". The great photographers are the "cream of the crop". Cream rises.
Lol, I gotchya.! 
Any shame I felt for whoring out has been soundly crushed by buying fancy new gear. 
I think the secret for success in your lifetime is to take something folks are familiar with and already like, and put a new spin on it. For instance Star Wars was a western (also based on archetype story formula) with lasers instead of bullets.
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