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<blockquote data-quote="Horoscope Fish" data-source="post: 233714" data-attributes="member: 13090">I see the the Rule of Thirds as a tool like any other compositional guideline and but one of many. The key with these guidelines is not simply in using, or not using, any particular technique, but in *how* the technique is used or not used. If you don't know how to compose a shot, try the RoT's and see what you get. If it's not working try the Golden Ratio, try an Offset Triangle, try whatever. I know of six or eight such compositional guidelines and while the the RoT's is not always the &quot;right&quot; answer, meaning the very best of the lot all the time; it has never been the wrong answer in my, admittedly limited, experience.Further, I don't think there is any dearth of those who want to &quot;see beyond&quot; (read: abandon) compositional guidelines, I think there is an abundance of those who do not truly understand how to use them *effectively* to begin with and even fewer know how to *not* to use them effectively. We so often want to run before we can crawl. .....</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Horoscope Fish, post: 233714, member: 13090"] I see the the Rule of Thirds as a tool like any other compositional guideline and but one of many. The key with these guidelines is not simply in using, or not using, any particular technique, but in *how* the technique is used or not used. If you don't know how to compose a shot, try the RoT's and see what you get. If it's not working try the Golden Ratio, try an Offset Triangle, try whatever. I know of six or eight such compositional guidelines and while the the RoT's is not always the "right" answer, meaning the very best of the lot all the time; it has never been the wrong answer in my, admittedly limited, experience. Further, I don't think there is any dearth of those who want to "see beyond" (read: abandon) compositional guidelines, I think there is an abundance of those who do not truly understand how to use them *effectively* to begin with and even fewer know how to *not* to use them effectively. We so often want to run before we can crawl. [COLOR="#FFFFFF"].....[/COLOR] [/QUOTE]

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