Brian Auer has an interesting piece on Epic Edits listing 10 things photographers should not do. My favorites are number 2, "Don't lust for gear", and number 9, "Don't ignore the rules".
Photographers are a curious group that includes hard-core gear-heads on one extreme and the touchy-feely artsy crowd on the other. While I love the gear (don't get me wrong I really love my gear) to focus (pun intended) on the gear misses the mark entirely. Photography is about the images, it's about what you can capture and how you can display it. To focus on the gear is not only super expensive but totally misses the mark. The gear-heads might as well be talking fuel-injectors or hard-drives.
It's all about the images.
As for the "rules", yes there are compositional rules for photography. In sum, you should learn them and commit them to memory so afterward you can intentionally ignore them. That's the difference between accident and intent.
Click here for the rest of Brian's article.
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