I admit, I'm a big fan of Krolop + Gerst and am therefore certainly biased positively. Clear that I as the DVD Breaking the Rules had to put to me.
Martin speaks to me from the soul and meets in the DVD just my personal test of time - against the prevailing Battle of material and right and wrong.
I find it refreshing, as Martin does away with the old rules and the audience encouraged to exploring new avenues.
The DVD begins what is right and what is wrong, and if there are right and wrong at all with a more philosophical approach about Martins mindset. It stimulates to produce its own standards and can not be influenced by outsiders even if they naturally like may seek other opinions themselves.
Then it's also going on already with an incredible number of rule-breaking. This starts with basic matters, like that one time exactly the opposite making of what you always do otherwise. So you always photographed with 85mm and 105mm, so you can sometimes only with a lens, for example. 35mm, a shooting contest. So the Council, its own habits, for example. Store in terms of equipment.
Then there are a lot of very practical tips that can be naturally extended as. Thus we see Martin when shooting with steel wool, flashlight or fluorescent tube. He flashed into the camera, with monopod blind about the model or projector.
There are videos where he deliberately produces little sharpness in portrait and there are videos where he does exactly the opposite. He too was raised in the question itself again and again. Things that we learn between the lines and make him so appealing and simultaneously authentic for me.
He never says, makes it one way or another, but always, I'm doing this so, Try it times out.
In addition to the number of videos in which photographing Martin live on set you see (incl. Display the finished pictures that are not usually processed and still are insanely beautiful) there at the end of a chapter that revolves around image processing and so ends that it is totally without it also.
About the DVD itself, I do not need to lose, who knows Galileo many words, knows that the DVD's are clearly arranged and very user-friendly.
My conclusion: strong buy recommendation. This DVD is refreshingly different, it is authentic and incredibly creative. You sit in front of it and is really on the go because you want to implement all of these ideas immediately. I would be pleased if this mindset continues finding its way into the photograph, then we see many more years of creativity.