The Golden Rule

What's the Golden Rule to photography? The Rule of Thirds is what it's called. This rule is a guideline in capturing a pleasing photograph. The rule of thirds looks like a large tic-tac-toe grid, and where each two lines intersect is called a power point, this is where a subject is most pleasing in a photograph. Though this is called the Golden Rule, inferring that to make a good photograph you must follow this rule, in times I disagree, besides rules are made to be broken, but in this post I will demonstrate the importance of the Rule of Thirds. In all these photographs, each bell, or christmas ornament intersect a power point, and in doing this create a interesting, and pleasing photograph. Rather than placing this street sign in the middle of the photograph, placing it on one of the vertical "tic-tac-toe" lines it gives a much more interesting, and contrasting photograph.

Aligning Emily's eye with a power point, rather than placing her in the middle, it proves to give great lighting, and makes it a tasteful photograph. Taking a far away photograph of Emily and centering one of her eyes on top of one of the power points, it again gives a totally different look.

When taking this photograph I followed the playing, aligning him with the left vertical line, as he moved right.