You know, the whole vignette thing is very interesting. I find that many other photographers hate the dark, more like a frame edges that I use on some portraits, but clients love them.

I've put up a plain edge, "normal" vignette, and the darker one like above as choices and the darker edged images win out every time in terms of client preference.

I think in the creative world, it is really impossible to say that anything should or should not be a certain way.

The same thing goes for composition. Whenever I present a "rule of thirds (ROT)" or other supposedly strong composition, the image notes almost always come back saying "please crop so 'fluffy' is in the center."

We all know (or at least think we know) that centered compositions are usually weaker than an ROT, Golden Mean, Diagonal, etc, but I'm finding that clients don't like them.
Who am I to argue with what sells?


Perhaps my clients just have no taste (wink wink, joke joke just in case one of my clients happens to read this )