Joseph Bautsch
New member
Composition is not about "rules" it's about pleasing the human Psyche and that never changes. For thousands of years artists (Photographers over less time) have tried to reduce this process down to these rules and it dosen't really work very well. There are many factors, "rules", that go into making a photo pleasing to the Psyche. In a photo a combination of some of these "rules" can be stronger than the rule of thirds making it acceptable to break that rule. In this case the other parts of the composition are not strong enough to make it acceptable to break of the rule of thirds. The Psyche does not like having to try and look at two shots at the same time, one shot divided in half. That's why there is a rule of thirds. Make one half or the other the dominate subject. Move the mountains and sky up into the top third and make the lake and reflections dominate or move the lake and reflections down into the bottom third and make the mountains and sky dominate. You have two very good pictures here, divide the shot into two separate ones. Don't try to display them as one, it dosen't work.