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When to or When to not use rule of thirds?
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<blockquote data-quote="Don Kuykendall_RIP" data-source="post: 384998" data-attributes="member: 6277"><p>My take on the subject comes from seeing hundreds of thousands of consumer photographs when I was in photofinishing. This was also in the days of film cameras where the focusing screen was dead center. every face would be dead center of the frame with totally blank space above the head and cutoff body below. Drove me crazy. I was constantly telling people to focus and recompose. I still see people shooting that way on facebook all the time. </p><p></p><p>Probably 75% of the shots I do will look better with the main subject on or very near one of the four rule points. Many of us that have been shooting for decades don't really think about composition rules to much now because it is muscle memory by now. But the rule is extremely important for newer shooters to learn good habits.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Don Kuykendall_RIP, post: 384998, member: 6277"] My take on the subject comes from seeing hundreds of thousands of consumer photographs when I was in photofinishing. This was also in the days of film cameras where the focusing screen was dead center. every face would be dead center of the frame with totally blank space above the head and cutoff body below. Drove me crazy. I was constantly telling people to focus and recompose. I still see people shooting that way on facebook all the time. Probably 75% of the shots I do will look better with the main subject on or very near one of the four rule points. Many of us that have been shooting for decades don't really think about composition rules to much now because it is muscle memory by now. But the rule is extremely important for newer shooters to learn good habits. [/QUOTE]
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