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The rule of thirds is the basic knowledge of composition that most 
photographers use when placing items within the frame to make a picture.
  While it’s an incomplete foundation of a composition, it is certainly 
worth learning and understanding as you learn the basics of photography. 
 
In its most basic form, the rule of thirds says that you 
should imagine a tic-tac-toe board on the frame of the picture, and then
 place whatever is most interesting in the photo on the intersection of 
those lines.  But the rule of thirds also helps with placing 
larger items in the frame by placing them along the horizontal lines of 
the rule of thirds. 
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In the photo above, I imagined their were two horizontal lines (thus 
making three segments of the photo–that’s why we call it the rule of 
THIRDS) and then two vertical lines on the frame.  Then, looking through
 the viewfinder while imagining these lines, I placed the most 
interesting part of the composition–the mill in this case–right on the 
intersection of those lines.  I could have picked any of the four 
intersections, but this one seemed to make the most sense in this 
instance. 
 
But the rule of thirds is not always quite that clean-cut.
  Look at the example below.  What’s the most interesting spot in the 
frame?  Probably the center of the city, but it’s really just the city 
as a whole that is interesting.  It would certainly be peculiar if I 
would have zoomed out and included more water just so the city could be 
tiny up in the intersection of the lines. 
 
So in this case, I just put the top of the mountain along the top 
third line, and the water line across the bottom third line.  It’s not 
placed at the intersections, but just across the lines.  It still 
follows the rule, just not as neatly as the example above. 
 
Also, you’ll see that I put the boat in the bay at the bottom-left 
intersection.  It’s a nice touch even though it’s not the ultimate focal
 point of the photo. 
 
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Okay, so you have an idea of how to apply the rule of thirds to landscapes, but what about portrait photography? 
 
In portrait photography, the rule of thirds is applied to the eye line.
  When I look at portraits from newer photographers, I often see them 
placing the subject’s eye line too low in the frame.  Most newer 
photographers place the eye line in the middle of the frame,which leaves
 far too much head room (space between the top of the head and the top 
of the frame). 
 
Professional portrait photographers almost always place the eye line 
along the top third-line of the frame. This leaves an appropriate 
amount of head room, but also puts the model’s face slightly off-center 
which adds interest. 
 
Now that you’ve learned that, you’ll notice it everywhere!  Even on 
TV, you’ll notice that when a single person is in a video shot, the 
person’s eye line is usually on the top-third line of the frame. 
Let’s critique this image from my favorite TV show to help drive this point home. 
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An amateur photographer, or videographer, would place Jim Halpert 
from the hit show “The Office” (the American version) in the center of 
this picture.  However, they have chosen to place him over to the side 
and up higher in the frame to follow the rule of thirds.  You’ll see 
that they didn’t get it perfectly lined up with the rule of thirds, but 
it’s close enough. 
 
It would be very remiss of me to not throw in a joke about “Meet my 
eye line, Jim!”  If you haven’t seen the NBC version of the show “The 
Office”…. then just move on.  If you have, well then that last little 
line was hilarious . 
 
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The rule of thirds works because it adds interest to the 
scene by balancing an object with “visual mass” with a larger area of 
negative space. 
 
An object with “visual mass” is what the viewer’s eye is drawn to 
when he or she looks at a photo.  When you see the portrait of this 
couple, your eye is immediately drawn to the couples’ faces.  They have 
“visual mass.” 
 
To balance out the fact that the faces are the most interesting, you 
have to use a much larger area of “negative space.”  Negative space 
simply means a portion of the photo that is mostly blank.  In this case,
 it’s the tin wall to the right of the couple. 
 
By using the rule of thirds, the couple is placed on the 
top-left intersection of the frame (simply because that’s the 
intersection that felt the most natural to me).  Since they are very 
interesting, I need a LOT of blank wall on the right to balance them 
out. 
 
That’s why the rule of thirds makes a composition feel balanced, despite the fact that the people are off-center. 
 
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I mentioned in the beginning of this article that the rule of thirds 
is a great foundation for understanding composition in photography, but 
it’s certainly not everything. 
 
I encourage my photography students to learn and adhere to the rule 
of thirds for the first while as you learn photography, but to recognize
 that there is much more to obtaining a solid composition. 
 
Let me show you an example of where the rule of thirds falls flat on its face.
  When I was photographing this model, her expression really caught my 
eye.  It conveyed so much that I asked her to freeze and let me capture a
 dozen or so photos of this expression. 
The photo I ended up liking most from this setup was this one.  It 
violates the rule of thirds in every possible way, but since her face is
 so full of expression and mood, it feels like putting it in the center 
creates more drama. 
 
So the rule of thirds isn’t everything.  I break it all the time. 
In fact, I’ve been writing a book on photographic composition and I 
came up with a rule that I feel explains solid compositions much better 
than the rule of thirds, but it’s a bit outside the scope of this 
article.  If you’re really interested in learning it, though, you can 
get my Photography Start class, where I have a video teaching Block 
Method composition. 
 
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The rule of thirds dates back to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_thirds" target="_blank">Sir Joshua Reynolds in the year 1783</a>,
 but the first recorded writing of the rule is merely quoting Sir Joshua
 Reynolds as having taught it.  There very well could have been others 
at earlier points who promulgated the rule. 
 
The ancient masters of art (including Da Vinci, and others) believed 
that no negative space in a painting should be the exact same as any 
other area of negative space. 
 
The rule of thirds assists the artist in following that rule by 
harmonizing areas of greater visual mass with areas of negative space, 
and not placing the area of visual mass in the center, which would then 
leave equal negative space on either side. 
 
 
source : <a href="http://pixonova.com/everything-you-need-to-know-about-rule-of-thirds/">http://pixonova.com/everything-you-need-to-know-about-rule-of-thirds/</a> 
 
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Everything You Need To Know About Rule Of Thirds !!!

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Everything You Need To Know About Rule Of Thirds !!!

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