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Rules Will Kill Your Photography Creativity: Part One

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Here is a fact: You will not find your creativity by following a rule, regardless of how many people believe it.
I’m on a mission to change how photography composition is taught — forever.
Composition has to be one of the most studied, researched, and worried about aspects of photography.
If photography composition was taught so well, why are so many people still struggling with it?
Rules are there to be broken, but you have to know the rules first.

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