{"id":1483,"date":"2010-04-04T10:44:23","date_gmt":"2010-04-04T15:44:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/richard.rathe.org\/?page_id=1483"},"modified":"2022-12-26T17:11:31","modified_gmt":"2022-12-26T22:11:31","slug":"basic-composition-rule-of-thirds","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/roadside-flowers-project\/basic-composition-rule-of-thirds","title":{"rendered":"Basic Composition and the Rule of Thirds"},"content":{"rendered":"

Composition is the single most important decision you will make for most photographs.<\/strong> It is the one thing a “full auto” camera cannot do for you. Your choice of composition will often mean the difference between a nice snapshot and a truly great photo!<\/p>\n

Roadside flowers pose a particular challenge because their growth patterns and visual context are highly variable and not under your control.<\/strong> So how do we impose some order on this chaos? One approach that goes back centuries is the Rule of Thirds<\/strong><\/a>. Rectangular photographs have natural points of visual emphasis that divide a composition into thirds.<\/strong> These four points or “aesthetic nodes<\/strong>” lie along lines at the 1\/3-2\/3 boundaries and divide the scene up into nine equal sections.<\/p>\n

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The basic idea is to locate your subject near one of these four nodes<\/strong>. Or if you have a boundary (like the horizon or a vertical wall), it should be placed along one of these lines.<\/p>\n

There are also four diagonal lines of composition<\/strong> that evoke a “flow” from node to node (down and right, up and right, down and left, up and left). Here is a recent example.<\/p>\n

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This diagonal arrangement also helps bring a secondary subject<\/strong> into contrast with the primary as seen here.<\/p>\n

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Composition is the single most important decision you will make for most photographs. It is the one thing a “full auto” camera cannot do for you. Your choice of composition will often mean the difference between a nice snapshot and a truly great photo! Roadside flowers pose a particular challenge because their growth patterns and visual … Continue reading “Basic Composition and the Rule of Thirds”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1447,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1483","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1483"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9517,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1483\/revisions\/9517"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}