From the course: Photography Foundations: Composition
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Rule of threes
Have you ever noticed that it's always a priest, a rabbi and a nun that are walking into a bar together in a joke? Or a doctor, a lawyer and a penguin that are fighting over the last parachute on an airplane? It's never just a mountain lion and a rabbit that are going fishing together. It's always three things and that's because three is a kind of important number. One of something is just its own thing, two of something is maybe a coincidence, three is an actual pattern. Once you hit three, we begin to see some significance, we begin to apply some meaning to something. Not necessarily deep spiritual meaning, but simply, oh, there is a system here. I got three big refrigerators here. Three often works very well in composition. If I only had two refrigerators, believe it or not, this wouldn't be as interesting. So a lot of times when you're working with repetition, when you're working with patterns, you want to be thinking at least in threes. A great thing about three is it's not too…
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Lines7m 7s
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Analyzing lines6m 35s
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Exploring a town4m 7s
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The Franklin Hotel2m 7s
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Shapes10m 13s
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Repetition: Arranging the elements1m 37s
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Rule of threes1m 36s
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Perspective1m 47s
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Symmetry1m 10s
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Focal length, camera position, and depth2m 27s
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Intersections1m 41s
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Exercise: Practicing fundamentals with geometry1m 21s
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