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P52 Week 21: Rule of Thirds (May 21 - 27)
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Welcome to our project! These are great photos. Please note going forward that images must be new each week (or at least shot with the intention of the theme if you work ahead a bit as some people do). We are working on our skills as we go and refraining from using archive photos. I do love that second photo, though.
Oh, I wondered if had been converted (due to the paint job and all) but I noticed it still had crosses affixed to the roof. And a lot of churches are using more modern ways to attract members, so wasn't sure!
It has been a while I wanted to stop in this little park on the ocean. Today it worked
It was difficult to get the first tree straight but I liked the guy with the guitar and gave him the priority.
CC welcome 🌷
Cropped the 1st photo as suggested by @mollyc
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Is there a reason you cropped the first one as a panorama? To be honest, my eye went straight to the boat, which isn't on a ROT, and I totally missed the guitar guy. But, if you crop it 3:2, you get both the boat and the guy on respective ROT lines. I find this a much stronger composition, as the eye naturally drifts between the two and hold my attention longer. I also wouldn't worry at all about keeping the tree straight. Trees often don't grow straight and are not good reference points. The water line and house should be straight in their respective directions, which they are.
Yes, you are right, I didn't consider the boat at all!
I took a panorama to have more to crop in case. It's a such a serene place , I wanted to bring it all with me
Thanks for your considerations, as usual very precious 🙂
This is a different one *not a panorama, the boats are more visibile but I don't know if there is too much of the sidewalk . It has some horizontal symmetry with the lines of sidewalk, field and ocean
Dangerous to shoot, because I was standing on the bike lane. The guy playing the guitar is alive 🙃
even if he's always in the same position.
Thanks for welcoming me! Sure, I will take that into account and will try to take more new photos
Hope that being a part of the project will help me learn to take better pics
The sidewalk doesn't inherently bother me (I like the shadows on it), but it does cause the water line to hit the center of the image.
I'm having a hard time seeing your ROT here? You should take some off the right side, which will move the horizon up or down and away from the center, and then move your subject to the left line. ❤️
It is!!! Originally I'd intended to concentrate on the jigsaw work on the porch but got distracted by the flowers . The house (it's attached to the Presby Iris Garden )is from the mid 1800's IIRC . Wonder how old the rhodi is?
You’re right I was a bit off the grid.
Was trying to have the subject in the bottom left third with the mountains cascading down to the right third.
Thank you for the suggestion-
Was trying to have the subject in the bottom left third with the mountains cascading down to the right third.
Thank you for the suggestion-
I think for most it is probably not obvious but when looking at this pic, taken at burningman, it is easily divided up in 3.
![prev2272_120_PreShow.jpg]( "prev2272_120_PreShow.jpg")
This little guy was posing nicely for me while I was kicking about with the camera while waiting for my nephew to finish football (soccer) practice.
When posting the uncropped version to the POTD thread, I discovered a couple of different crops, which better fit the rule of thirds.
![P5220062B.jpg]( "P5220062B.jpg")
![P5220062C.jpg]( "P5220062C.jpg")