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This work by Pedro Dominguez Caballero de Rodas, Jose Jaime Martin and Carmen Rio is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 

Composition in photography

Watch the video "Free Photography Lessons, Part 2: Composition", uploaded onto YouTube on 10/11/2008 by Jimbacsi (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=EFSWblaVYFs). Pay special attention to the excerpt from 2:15 to 5:15 (the bit about the rule of thirds).

If you find it difficult to understand, you can read the script here.

Complete the video script

Below you have some excerpts from the video script. Fill in the gaps (only 1 word per gap) as you listen once again.
  • The rule of is a very good guideline.
  • If you think of a photograph as being covered with a tic-tac-toe , where the lines meet those are the areas we’re referring to as hot spots.
  • And typically—not always but typically—these are the places where we are going to see our ’s eyes.
  • We’ll see the of the or something like the curb of the road.
  • Not only is the subject directly in the middle of this image but his tells me almost nothing.
  • I’m curious about that computer. I wish we had moved this particular camera lower into the right.
  • Here’s an example of using the rule of thirds in a vertical .
  • Well, that was too easy because all the failures are really on the side and all the successes are on the side.

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