Rule of Thirds

Now that I have finally completed my product and applied a decent amount of theory I thought I would self educate with the last few posts to something relevant  with the module.


I decided I have in the past learnt about and have done a small amount of research on the rule of thirds but don't actually know properly how it works or how it came about. which is why in this post I will be explaining the rule of thirds with relevant information.


After conducting much research I found that:


The rule of thirds came about through a mathematical term called the Fibonacci Series that dates back to Leornado Da Vinci.


Fibonacci was an Italian Mathematician who discovered a series of numbers by which artists and photographers have been basing their work on till this day. This particular sequence is not just found in art but has been described to have been used all over in the natural world.


This Specific technique is called The Rule of Thirds. And may improve things such as composition and may find it being used in many commercial programmes and graphics of today.

The rule of thirds basically shows a grid on to lets say the black rectangle (as a viewfinder) and uses the intersection of these lines to the vocal point of the subject. 

So when the subject is carefully placed along with any one of those intersecting points (crosses) the eye naturally gravitates to those locations and makes the whole image a lot more aesthetically pleasing to the viewer.

Here is an example below:

Notice how the points doesn't necessarily have to be on the eye just by having the eye on the line, the head being cut off doesn't seem to matter as much just because of following the rule.

REFERENCE: Last Year's Visual Communication Presentations, http://photoinf.com/Golden_Mean/John_Longenecker/Rule_of_Thirds.htm