![]() It’s just right, would you agree? Let’s take a look at another… In this photo, the head isn’t center, it’s not crowding either side. Consider that if I had placed a rule of thirds grid over this photo and lined the eye up with that, the head would be crowding the left side of the frame. In the above example, I placed the slightly more dominant eye of the horse on one of the Phi intersections. Here are a few examples a Phi grid placed over some images that I’ve used it on in the past… Instead of a 3 piece grid that goes 1+1+1=frame, you get a grid that goes 1+.618+1=frame. However, upon closer inspection you will see that this grid is not an exact splitting of the frame into three pieces. When you take the sweet spot of the Fibonnaci Ratio and recreate it four times into a grid, you get what looks to be a rule of thirds grid. When applied to photography, this ratio can produce aesthetically pleasing compositions that can be magnets for the human sub-conscious. This is a real aspect of composition that has been used by historical famous artists and architects, and Fortune 500 companies. Ok, hopefully that made things a bit more clear? By now you should know that this is NOT a conspiracy theory or fuzzy math. If you are, please take a few moments to watch any one (or all) of these videos that seek to explain this ratio. At this point, you may be quite confused. This way, you can line up a grid of the golden ratio to coincide with lines or points of interest in your photograph. Lightroom 3 even has a golden ratio overlay option when you go to crop on image. This ratio can be used in many ways to compose a photograph. It’s so much easier to just talk about the “rule of thirds” because it’s exact, precise and easy to follow. It’s not talked about in most photography circles because it’s a somewhat advanced method of composition and can be confusing to a lot of people. The divine proportion has been used by companies like Apple to design products, it’s said to have been used by Twitter to create their new profile page, and has been used by major companies all over the world to design logos. It’s found all over the Parthenon, in famous works of art like the Mona Lisa and the Last Supper, and it’s still used today. Since the Renaissance, artists and architects have designed their work to approximate this ratio of 1:1.618. He noticed that there was an absolute ratio that appears often throughout nature, a sort of design that is universally efficient in living things and pleasing to the human eye. But don’t some of these photos look a bit crowded being so close to either side of the frame? Sure it works in some cases, but what if there was still another rule you could incorporate into your photographic repertoire? Enter Fibonacci’s Ratio…Īlso known as the Golden Mean, Phi, or Divine Proportion, this law was made famous by Leonardo Fibonacci around 1200 A.D. Makes sense right? The rule of thirds took you to new heights in your photographic journey, moving your subject off to one side or another in your frame, or to the top or bottom. Suddenly, you realize that all you ever did before was center your subject right smack dab in the middle of the frame, because that’s where the camera’s focus grid is located. Discovering the rule of thirds is a big milestone for any photographer. Are you a stickler for little details? Well, if you’re a photographer, you had better be.
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