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<blockquote data-quote="Horoscope Fish" data-source="post: 391433" data-attributes="member: 13090">Well I certainly don't consider myself an expert either but I don't think sports photography, really, is any different when it comes to composition. Rules of Composition deal with rhythm and balance and those rule &quot;work&quot; regardless of what the particular subject matter happens to be. I don't understand why one would want to disregard composition when cropping either; I'm very careful with my cropping but when I do crop it's usually in order to bring shots more in keeping with guidelines of composition; I don't disregard them simply because I'm cropping. That, frankly, makes no sense to me but I'm certainly willing to listen if someone cares to explain why this would be a good idea. I'm also a proponent of learning more than just the Rule of Thirds, there are several such guidelines and the RoT gets tossed around a lot, I think, because the Tic-Toe-Grid-nature of the guideline is easy to teach, remember and visualize in the field. Your basketball shot, IMO, works well using the RoT but looks even better when cropped with with triangles, but you rarely hear about cropping-triangles because they're a lot harder to teach, remember and visualize in the field.....</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Horoscope Fish, post: 391433, member: 13090"] Well I certainly don't consider myself an expert either but I don't think sports photography, really, is any different when it comes to composition. Rules of Composition deal with rhythm and balance and those rule "work" regardless of what the particular subject matter happens to be. I don't understand why one would want to disregard composition when cropping either; I'm very careful with my cropping but when I do crop it's usually in order to bring shots more in keeping with guidelines of composition; I don't disregard them simply because I'm cropping. That, frankly, makes no sense to me but I'm certainly willing to listen if someone cares to explain why this would be a good idea. I'm also a proponent of learning more than just the Rule of Thirds, there are several such guidelines and the RoT gets tossed around a lot, I think, because the Tic-Toe-Grid-nature of the guideline is easy to teach, remember and visualize in the field. Your basketball shot, IMO, works well using the RoT but looks even better when cropped with with triangles, but you rarely hear about cropping-triangles because they're a lot harder to teach, remember and visualize in the field. [COLOR="#FFFFFF"]....[/COLOR] [/QUOTE]

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