When might it be a good idea to deliberately break the rules?

To do the opposite side of the rule will be the easiest way to break the rule, but still, we can just do the different thing and only save a little bad connection to the rule also work for breaking the rules.

Do you think it is possible to break rules if you don’t know they exist? Give reasons for your answer.

Yes, I think that is possible because I think all people have a fixed aesthetics, which means in our mind we probably know what is right and what is wrong for a picture, in this case you can just

Can a ‘bad’ picture ever be ‘great’? – How important is context in photography? (context= why a picture was taken, when or where it was taken and what message you were trying to make)

Personally, a “bad” picture can identify as a great picture. This is because if you have the right idea to take a picture without the rules, you still can have design or ideas on that picture which still will look good, but it is just without some rules. The context is important because photographer don’t randomly take all of their picture, when you are looking at the picture, a photographer don’t want you just look at how great is the picture, they also want us to know the meaning and the background story of this picture. We need to “feel” the picture, which let the context to be important.