Composition

This weekend, I want to go and photograph some shots for assignments two and three; foreground to background and foreground vs background. I thought that doing some research into compositional techniques would give me a better insight in how to produce some good quality images which look visually pleasing.

Rule of Thirds Diagram

The "Rule of Thirds" is something I am familiar of because of my previous work in photography. When a subject is placed on one of the overlapping third lines, they are deemed to be a better point of interested compared to if they were placed anywhere else in the shot.

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Hellen Van Meene has used the rule of thirds effectively, and in turn, has made the shot more visually pleasing. In my eyes, subjects placed on the sides of a photograph compared to in the middle look better than central. However, on some photographs, central composition looks better.

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The chosen central composition makes this photograph work, but that is somewhat due to the leading lines used in the room. Leading lines draw our line of sight to a certain area of the photograph, making us naturally drawn to the girl central of the shot. Without these leading lines however, I would think the subject would look better on a third line, to make the photograph more exciting.