The rule of thirds
Watch the video
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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).
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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