Alright this is a competition for all you bad boys and girls. Each time we will break one of the many "rules" of photography. Best picture wins with bonus style points for breaking the rule in spectacular fashion.
This time we are breaking the Rule of Exposure. This is not a very concrete rule but it deals with the fact that the picture you take should resemble the light of the actual setting you took it in and thus, look "natural" or, put differently, the exposure should not draw attention to itself.
However, exposure can be experimented with as an artistic tool. You can overexpose images to make them look softer or underexpose them to make them look more mysterious.
With a point and shoot this is a bit harder to achieve but not impossible. You either deliberately shoot in an over- or under-exposed setting or use exposure control, if you have it (that's the display you can move from -2 to +2 to make the image darker or lighter). With a DSLR you can play with shutter speed and aperture.
Here's an example for overexposure - the white background got much lighter than it actually was thus making a great backdrop for the subject:
And here's an example of effective underexposure by @hollybamf :
More examples can be found by searching for the tags "overexposed" and "underexposed" or "dark".
Deadline is two weeks from tomorrow, January 2nd (maybe you can express how you feel on the 1st of January using over- or underexposure ;)). I will choose five finalists and put them up for a vote. To be considered as a finalist the shot has to have been made between December 19th and January 2nd. Remember to tag your entry as "breaking-the-rules-exposure"
In the mean time feel free to show off your previous pictures that breaks this rule, right here in this discussion thread.
Come on everybody, let's walk on the dark (or light ;)) side together and take some funky photos with experimental exposure. You know you want to!
@shadesofgrey : No worries, you can do with this thread whatever you like, as long as you enter some shots for the challenge ;). And you're all more than welcome to post examples so that people who are a bit shy get some inspiration :)!
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@jannaellen Sorry about starting that tangent....now back to our regurlarly scheduled program.
Kathleen, you may want to enter this one...