Weekend Photo Tips: The Rule of Thirds and Beyond

Beauty can be seen in all things, seeing and composing the beauty is what separates 

the snapshot from the photograph. – Matt Hardy

Do you want that WOW factor in your photos?  Well, there aren't any settings in your camera
that will give you that!  One thing that will, though, is good composition.  A way to get good

composition is to use the golden rule of photography: the rule of thirds. 
 What is the rule of thirds?  It means that the subject or horizon is placed
off-center and on a one-third segment of the frame.

 Let me show you a photo using the rule of thirds.

See how the tree and the horizon are on one-third of the shot?

 

 

But in photography, rules are made to be broken!  What I mean by that is something

 that is referred to as the rule of sixths or the rule of eighths.  Similar to the rule of thirds,
the subject or the horizon is placed on a sixth or an eighth of the frame.
Why use these rules and not the rule of thirds?

Well, if you really like the sky but you do not want the photo to be all sky,
then a small amount of foreground can give that sense of depth that you are looking for. 
Having just a small amount of one or the other helps to bring balance.

 

Do you see how I put the horizon on a sixth?

 

Thank you for reading my post about the rule of thirds and beyond.
Come back next Friday for more Weekend Photo Tips! 

And remember...

 

“ You don’t take a photograph, you make it. - Ansel Adams