Photography no-goes do not use grid

Summary

The imagery rules page: a short bulleted list of photographic styles to avoid, illustrated by a grid of bad-example photos, each crossed out with a red diagonal line.

Visual description

Warm cream background, section number "2.7.8 Photography no-goes" top-left on a hairline rule. The left column drops the oversized headline in favour of a small intro, "Avoid photography with:", followed by a bullet list (over-saturated colours, post-production filters, lens flares, dramatized contrast, inauthentic subjects). The right two-thirds shows a two-row grid of four images each, all square, all struck through with a thin red diagonal cross to mark them as prohibited: a duotone-teal forest with a floating book, a neon light-trail abstraction, a high-contrast statue against clouds, an over-processed balcony portrait, a floating-cube composite, a saturated teal-and-pink hand shot, a staged paper-heart image, and a warm over-retouched elderly couple. The persistent left-rail section index (Imagery in bold with an arrow) and the standard footer sit on hairline rules.

Key takeaway

The red diagonal strike as an instantly legible "do not" marker laid directly over real example images, so the rule and its violation occupy the same frame. Swapping the oversized headline for a tight bullet list signals that this is a checklist page, not an inspiration page.

Reuse notes

A clean convention for the prohibited-imagery section of any brand guide. The struck-through-grid pattern reads faster than paragraphs of prose. Be deliberate that every bad example clearly demonstrates exactly one listed fault, or the lesson blurs.