The Rule of Thirds
Composition and how you frame an image determine the difference between a bad photo and a good one. Now, if you like your photos with heads cut off, big empty spaces around things and a little kid whose face is so small it’s hard to pick him out of the pumpkins he’s sitting in, then this lesson is not for you.
But of course, you want to make better images so here are some basic rules for you to learn.
The nice thing about rules is that when you understand and use them, you become freer to break them.
As a ‘rule’ it is not a good idea to put your point of interest in the center of an image, that is pretty boring. Whether it be a portrait or especially a landscape, the artistic Rule of Thirds produces a more interesting image.
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