Comments on: The Rule of Thirds: Don’t knock it http://www.digicamhelp.com/camera-logs/random-thoughts/the-rule-of-thirds/ Digital Camera Help for Beginners & Beyond Mon, 13 Feb 2012 02:07:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Greghttp://www.digicamhelp.com/camera-logs/random-thoughts/the-rule-of-thirds/comment-page-1/#comment-6435 Greg Thu, 17 Feb 2011 03:18:56 +0000 http://www.digicamhelp.com/?p=7694#comment-6435  If everyone has an innate aesthetic vision, sometimes it needs drawing out. Well said! These rules are a good place to start for any aspiring photographer. When i studied photography 20 odd years ago we had a whole semester just on composition. Even now when looking through the viewfinder there are times I think " what can i do to make this image more visually appealing?"The answer is usually found in one of those composition rules we learnt.The viewer of your image is not going to look at it and think " OMG .. he's used the rule of thirds to create that image" even if they know about it. They will just look your image and like it... or not. <!--ZOOMSTOP-->  If everyone has an innate aesthetic vision, sometimes it needs drawing out. Well said! These rules are a good place to start for any aspiring photographer. When i studied photography 20 odd years ago we had a whole semester just on composition. Even now when looking through the viewfinder there are times I think ” what can i do to make this image more visually appealing?”

The answer is usually found in one of those composition rules we learnt.

The viewer of your image is not going to look at it and think ” OMG .. he’s used the rule of thirds to create that image” even if they know about it. They will just look your image and like it… or not.

]]> By: Gail Bjorkhttp://www.digicamhelp.com/camera-logs/random-thoughts/the-rule-of-thirds/comment-page-1/#comment-6038 Gail Bjork Fri, 24 Dec 2010 13:00:13 +0000 http://www.digicamhelp.com/?p=7694#comment-6038 Joe, I wish it were that easy. Even some of the greatest artists in time had teachers. As this artist and teacher <a href="http://www.digicamhelp.com/camera-logs/random-thoughts/composition-for-photographers/" rel="nofollow">wrote about The Rule of Thirds</a>:<blockquote>"Once the rule is acknowledged, fixed in the artist’s or photographer’s head, the rule becomes part of his or her own eyesight in establishing an interesting, intriguing composition and no longer is a RULE to be followed."</blockquote>Musicians, artists and sports players, like photographers, all benefit from training. Then they are free to go out on their own and develop their own style and vision. They can adapt, modify or reject the rule if they so desire. If everyone has an innate aesthetic vision, sometimes it needs drawing out. Joe, I wish it were that easy. Even some of the greatest artists in time had teachers. As this artist and teacher wrote about The Rule of Thirds:

“Once the rule is acknowledged, fixed in the artist’s or photographer’s head, the rule becomes part of his or her own eyesight in establishing an interesting, intriguing composition and no longer is a RULE to be followed.”

Musicians, artists and sports players, like photographers, all benefit from training. Then they are free to go out on their own and develop their own style and vision. They can adapt, modify or reject the rule if they so desire. If everyone has an innate aesthetic vision, sometimes it needs drawing out.

]]> By: Joehttp://www.digicamhelp.com/camera-logs/random-thoughts/the-rule-of-thirds/comment-page-1/#comment-6029 Joe Thu, 23 Dec 2010 01:55:49 +0000 http://www.digicamhelp.com/?p=7694#comment-6029 If only people would learn to trust their innate aesthetic vision, they wouldn't need dumbed down 'rules' like the abhorrent ROT.   Further, what's the point of following it?  Is it to make images that look like those of  everyone else blindly following ROT?  Yea, that sounds swell. :(   If you ever want to make a photograph that expresses your sense of style and beauty, you will have to banish ROT, and all those other 'rules out of composition,' from your consciousness. If only people would learn to trust their innate aesthetic vision, they wouldn’t need dumbed down ‘rules’ like the abhorrent ROT.   Further, what’s the point of following it?  Is it to make images that look like those of  everyone else blindly following ROT?  Yea, that sounds swell. :(    If you ever want to make a photograph that expresses your sense of style and beauty, you will have to banish ROT, and all those other ‘rules out of composition,’ from your consciousness.

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