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Practicing thirds with points and geometry

Practicing thirds with points and geometry

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Practicing thirds with points and geometry

You've probably spent most, if not all of your photographic life working with a rectangular frame. That means there's a good chance that you already have a feel for working with thirds, even if you never knew that that's what you were doing or didn't have any idea about the theory of thirds. Now that you do, now that we've looked at thirds, now we've analyzed it some and looked at some examples, I'd like you to go out and practice composing with thirds. Practice balancing the frame by dividing it into three equal parts, and seeing how you can place elements in different places to get a good balanced composition. Because you do have some vocabulary to put to this idea now, you might learn some things or identify some things or get a deeper feeling for things than what you had when you were maybe just winging it based on experience. Now, your camera may have the ability to display a grid in the viewfinder that shows the frame evenly divided into thirds. If I were you I'd turn that off…

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