Week 6 - Composition & The Rule of Thirds

This week's lesson from the weekly ScrapShare Photography Challenge was about composition. For this week's composition lesson, the goal was to apply "The Rule of Thirds" when shooting. Instead of positioning the subject directly in the center of the frame, you can create a more interesting shot by placing them off center...imagine cutting the frame into 9 equal parts and utilizing those parts for visual appeal.

Here are a few shots I have so far that illustrate this concept.

The first two shots show a little blue heron: the first one centered withing the frame and the second one applying the Rule of Thirds. Personally, The second photo is a bit more interesting, although it would have been better if the lighting was better...the little heron blends in with the rocks a bit too much!


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The next set of pictures all show some form of using the Rule of Thirds rather than centering the subject within the frame.


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In this one, the clown (subject) is to the far right of the image rather than centered.


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In this photo, there is more sky than water. I tried to take this shot so that the horizon line would not divide the photo into two equal parts.


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The sailboat (subject) was shot to take up the full frame from top to bottom, but was placed to the far right of the frame rather than center.

52/365 - Day 39

And this is just a glimpse of what you can see up and down Bayshore Blvd. after the Parade of Pirates! What a mess!

52/365 - Day 38

I was out of town without access to a computer with photo upload capabilities...so here are the pics for the 52/365 Challenge for Saturday and Sunday.


This is the beginning of the pirate invasion at Gasparilla as the pirate ship and a large flotilla of other boats invade the harbor and dock at the Convention Center before taking the keys to city from the Mayor (whom I actually know).