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In order to successfully follow the rule of thirds, I turned the grid on on my phone. When I took pictures without the grid, they often didn’t follow the rule. I feel pretty neutral on the rule of thirds. It generally seems like a good thing, but other times it seems too restricting. I used the grid lines to make sure that my picture had flow.
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There were a lot of challenges because i would take good pictures but they would not work with the project because they were not on the grid lines. The easiest part for me was finding a good spot for the camera. My thoughts on the project did not really change, I think this project is pretty cool and interesting to figure out why people position their photos the way they do. In the picture with the girl, I positioned the camera so that her face was on the grid line so that people see her face first and then the rest of her body.
What worked in this project was getting different angles in different areas. Also by trying to Chose this distance of what I’m trying to take a picture of. What didn’t work is zooming in and focusing my one photo in one single area. My thought on the rule of thirds is including the background of the photo. The lines in my photo help me correlate where and how I should take my photo. What this does is make the viewers eyes move around the picture.
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For this project, we went outside to take photos and we also took photos inside our school. I wanted to take pretty photos so I also decided to add a filter to my photos by using VSCO. I thought rule of thirds was a unique way to take pictures. On the camera on my phone, I used a grid and when I took a picture of a person or object, one of the vertical lines had to be on the person or object. This project showed me that the person or object in a photo does not have to be in the middle.
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When I was completing this assignment, it was kind of hard putting a person in the photo to meet the requirements, but when it came to landscapes it was easy. At first, I thought this project would be pretty easy, but when I started working on the assignment, it got a bit difficult. I learned that the Rule of Thirds can be a helpful technique for photographers but can be difficult to use when trying to take the right shot. When I took the picture of my neighbor’s cat, I put her eyes on the right side of my photo to make her eyes the main focus. Then when I took the picture of Hannah I put her in the edge of the right side of my photo where she is the main focus. But at the time Samantha’s hand was more on the left side of the photo, so the corner of the viewer’s eye can transfer from Hannah to Samantha’s hand and the camera.
Our goal in this project was to take interesting photos using the rule of thirds. I found it very difficult to take pictures of objects because, often, the objects wouldn’t form an interesting composition. However, I found it easy to take photos of people. In the beginning of the project, I thought all you had to do to have a rule of thirds photo was to put something on an intersection of the lines. Now, I have realized that that is not always the case. You need something to capture your attention. I also learned that when taking a straight forward portrait photo, you should line up the eyes of the person. In the portrait below, I tried to line up Hannah’s eye with the camera. In the objects photo, I wanted to have a different object on each intersection. One intersection is on the eye of the bird statue; another is on the wall, and the other two intersections are focused on objects.
In this projects for rule of thirds many things worked and many things didn’t work. Like putting the object that you want to be on the line or intersection of the grid. But putting the object in the center does not work. I thought that the rule of thirds was useless but now at the end I think that it is helpful so that the viewer can see the object first and then the background. I put Sophie on the side of the photo so she can be the first thing you see and then the background. The object in the second photo is my shoes. I want the viewer to look at my shoes first and then the background.
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In this assignment, students had to apply the rule of thirds to their photos. The rule of thirds is an essential photography technique. It can be applied to any subject to improve the composition and balance of your images. The rule of thirds is one of the most useful composition techniques in photography. The technique that worked in this assignment was putting objects to the side instead of the middle. I had a hard time taking pictures of objects because it was hard for me to be creative. At first I thought that rule of thirds was a concept only professional photographers could understand, but then I realized that it was easy and made the photos more interesting. In the first picture, I decided to put kim in the left corner of the photo to make her the first thing you look at. In the second picture, I decided to be creative and put my shoes in the shot. It turned out good because of the contrast in color.
This project included students to take pictures of objects or other students using different sides of the camera so the object isn’t centered every picture. What really worked was using the cameras with the grid because it really helped separate the camera screen for the picture. What didn’t work was using the camera without the grid. The lines that were used for the camera really helped because it divided the camera so we can put the object on each side of the camera.
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What worked in the project was i had good looking backgrounds. What didn’t work was the quality of the camera, it was messed up and I didn’t fix it until the end. My opinion on the rule of thirds is it doesn’t work if you don’t have a good camera. The lines are for the focus of the photo, there can be a person on the side but the focus could be on something else. Click here to see my photos
