The Rule of Thirds

Comments and critiques are welcome.

I wanted to emphasize that rules are meant to be broken.

Photo taken with a point and shoot Leica Mini II.

Manually printed by Antonio Navarro in www.fotosintesis.es in Madrid. Scanned from print

Great tones

Great shot! I would probably have gone with The Law and put the trees at a third point. Good object lesson!

Perfecto. Todo en el centro.

si muy buena ...Alberto...genial

La regla de 1/2 muy bien utilizada.

Beautiful!

Really nice.. those trees look so lonely out there.

Best thing here is the tones of course. It is fine to break the rules, however, I am not sure about the horizon set right in the middle. Greetings, Virgil

Cada vez que veas esta foto "hanging on the wall" te va a brotar un gusanillo de satisfaccion que no veas...

Buen ojo para la composicion, foto intensa. Te felicito.

I don't like "the rule of thirds" it's really stupid, but most of the times it works.

 

About the center: there is no composition rule that forbids to put the center of interest in the center of the picture. But the "center" is a tricky place, it has a lot of "visual weight" and you need something to hold the attention there, otherwise your eyes will be distracted from all the rest around.

 

Here, there is nothing concurring for the attention. My eye goes in the center and stays there.

 

If you would have put the trees on the "thirds", you would have probably had a "balance" problem. If there would have been something else, you would have had a balance problem as well.

 

It takes skill to make a shot like this...

Very great bw picture

?Que puedo decir de esta foto que no hayan dicho ya?. Pues lo que siempre digo. Para mi funciona no porque se salte o tenga reglas, ni siquiera porque este centrado. Funciona porque "menos es mas". La aparente simplicidad de la toma, cielo+tierra y el nexo de union entre ambas, los arboles son el activador de nuestras emociones al mirar la foto. Como el cielo proyecta su luz sobre la tierra, y la increible textura de la misma potencian el efecto. A tí´µlo personal, el vignetting de la foto aun realza mas el efecto. MUY artí³´ica, MUY conceptual, MUY BUENA.

Una foto muy intensa, me encanta el contraste.

jajajaj llego a tu foto desde el foro y el ofrecimiento a Alfonso. Así que regla de los tercios...qué iconoclasta eres... :))

Llego a esta maravilla igual que Juan,me importa un pimiento esa norma Alberto.Fantastica,me gusta mucho ese aire como antiguo,no sabria decirte con exactitud ha que es debido,quizas por el grano,posee unos tonalidad estupenda,pues mira, esta me apetece puntuartela!

No se como me habia perdido esta maravilla. Felicidades... guardaste muy bien la regla de los tercios... pero en el cajon de los cachivaches!!! Un abrazo!

Todo un honor tu visita! Y un abrazo especial para tu hijo.

Although I am also very much against rules and regulations ... I still think that the rule of thirds usually works. Something dead in the centre is boring.

I tried to apply the rule on Alberto?s picture but because of the beautiful clouds and the light that forms a circle in the middle, I only cropped the foreground: 1/3 foreground and 2/3 sky.

What do you think?

 

Well, Peter, I throw my glove to your face and shall send right now my sollicitor with a writ on you!!

;-)

No, no kidding. It does work, of course, but that is not my point. The rule of thirds, of course works inevitably. However, by carefully composing you can show that it's not the sole alternative.

It's all about rhythm and balance. If you analyze my picture in-depth you'll soon discover the subtle nuances that base the rule of thirds in it, no matter how dead centered it seems at first sight!

Especially the title, very cheeky ;)

There is enough interesting detail and contrasts to keep your eye moving throughout the photo.  The center image is really strong, partly because of placement but also because it is the darkest point of the photo...but it's also intriguing since it's so far away and hard to tell exactly what it is, there is a bit of mystery there that keeps it interesting too.

 

Cheers, glad to see another scanned in silver print.

 

Katrina