Tell me more about this mysterious Rule of Thirds. I don't like rules and fractions disturb me.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_thirds
Basically divide your image into thirds, both horizontally and vertically. Placing subjects at the intersections of the grid thusly formed, will naturally be pleasing to the eye.
Also horizons, and strong verticals placed on a third line, rather than in the middle, is usually a more interesting composition.
That's the theory anyway. There are, as always, exceptions.
With 2/3 ratio of a dslr, this is also ends up closely related to the golden ratio of 1:1.667.
Ah. Neat.
Originally posted by: Maximillon Cohen 11:15, restate my assumptions: One, Mathematics is the language of nature. Two, Everything around us can be represented and understood through numbers. Three: If you graph the numbers of any system, patterns emerge. Therefore, there are patterns everywhere in nature. Evidence: The cycling of disease epidemics;the wax and wane of caribou populations; sun spot cycles; the rise and fall of the Nile. So, what about the stock market? The universe of numbers that represents the global economy. Millions of hands at work, billions of minds. A vast network, screaming with life. An organism. A natural organism. My hypothesis: Within the stock market, there is a pattern as well... Right in front of me... hiding behind the numbers. Always has been.
We actually covered this in the design forum, sorry.
Originally posted by: arigato People keep asking about the basics of composition, so although this isn't a tutorial per se it's a list of relevant resources:
basic spatial composition - some basic approaches common to photos and graphics compostion: http://www.azuswebworks.com/photography/ph_comp.html
golden section/golden mean and the rule of thirds in more detail: http://photoinf.com/Golden_Mean/Eugene_Ilchenko/GoldenSection.html ...
Don't forget strong diagonals and leading the eye!