Rule of thirds on steroids

[Richard D]

Interesting lesson on applying the Fibonacci cycle to photography.
Warning: Might make you want to go back and recrop everything.

http://www.digital-photography-school.com/divine-composition-with-fibonaccis-ratio-the-rule-of-thirds-on-steroids

[Celebration]

1. LOL I love Phi!

It's in my spinning dodecahedron. I'm a former (semi) math geek.

Ordinarily I would go along with using Fibonacci numbers and the spiral shell formations to crop photos, but I think I am too much of a rule breaker. I keep rules in mind when I crop, but often just go with where I think it looks the best. Thirds seem a little easier to estimate than Fibonacci numbers. But sometimes I bet I do use the golden mean, but implicitly rather than explicitly.

Still, this is pretty interesting. I have a whole book about phi and it makes the argument that it is embedded in all our great art, the Pyramids, etc. I am not sure if I buy it 100% but that doesn't stop me from being a huge fan of this stuff.

Meanwhile I have a dodecahedron in my signature here, a dodecahedron calendar that I made out of paper, and a dodecahedron paper weight. Phi has to be the coolest ratio around--------

[postatomic]

2. I had a long-err-discussion about this

With a Photography Teacher. It's a variation on Fine Art (non-photography) "rules". How everything has a starting point then the eye follows a sequence which returns you back to the starting point. I'm not big on rules, but it's still interesting.

[alfredo]

3. It could be what attracts you to a subject.

[alfredo]

4. Here's another page on composition.

http://photoinf.com/Golden_Mean/Michael_Fodor/Photo_School_-_Compsition_Basics.htm