September 2010
Beginner
271 pages
6h 29m
English
Content preview from Composition Digital Field Guide
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
O’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.I wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.I’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.
Chapter 3. The Rule of Thirds
By the time you finish reading this book, I hope that you will be sick of hearing about the Rule of Thirds; I also hope that it will be engrained as a way to start framing each and every shot you take. I am not saying that it is the only way to compose a photo or even the best way in every situation, but it is a great way to start looking at your compositions. One factor that works against this technique is that camera manufacturers put most of the focus points in their cameras in the middle of the frame. This tends to make people place their main subject directly in the middle of the frame. I hope that this chapter will make you look at the scenes in front of you in a new, controlled, and off-centered way.
Giant pandas make great photo subjects with their unique coloring and docile behavior. When photographing this panda, I made sure that the eye of the panda was on one of the intersecting points that make up the Rule of Thirds. As a bonus, the bamboo that the panda is eating creates a leading line into the image. Taken at ISO 500, f/2.8, and 1/250 second.
What It Is
The Rule of Thirds is a method of dividing the scene into thirds with imaginary horizontal and vertical lines. Then you place one of the four spots where the lines intersect over the main subject ...
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Read now
Unlock full access
More than 5,000 organizations count on O’Reilly
O’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.Julian F.
I wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.Addison B.
I’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.Amir M.
I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.