Saturday, 8 January 2011

Rule of thirds

The rule of third is that one of the most popular elements in photography, The Rule of Third is basically imagining an image which has been split into thirds so that there are 9 different parts. The rule states that an image should be imagined as divided into nine equal parts by two equally-spaced horizontal lines and two equally-spaced vertical lines, and that important compositional elements should be placed along these lines or their intersections. Using the Rule of Thirds helps produce nicely balanced easy on the eye pictures.


 
As you can see here there are 9 different sections.




example:















If you look at this image you can see that the model is on the left hand side of the frame, this has been done as it is proven that a humans eye automatically looks to the left of an image the evidence of this is the fact that humans read from left to right too.  By placing her in the centre of the frame is could result in an “awkward” shot.

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