When used in photography both have their respective strengths. Photographers mustn't forget however that they are merely guidelines used to illustrate technique to novices. Photographers will use one or another but will mostly follow their own 'eye'. Sometimes it fits in the 'rule of thirds' other times it fits in 'the golden ratio'. There is no right in any art form, regardless of what critics may say.
Did she just say "for hundreds of years the rule of thirds has been one of the most universal accepted guidelines for composing photographs"? I didn't know photography has been around that long!
i think they're just trying to get away from getting too technical on their video(and therefore avoiding mentioning fibonacci), which is good, because not everyone is a numberphile like you(or, as a matter of fact, me).
yep, if you divide any number in the Fibonacci Sequence by the number before it, it will be close to the golden ratio (phi). and the further along you are in the sequence the closer the ratio will actually be to phi.
Dennis Davis Any sequence that follows those set of rules will encroach on Phi, not just the Fibonacci Sequence. The Fibonacci Sequence is only special insofar as it is the first sequence in an uncountable infinite number of sequences.
James Oldfield the terms don't need to be integers. For example consider the Fibonacci sequence divided by 2: 0.5, 0.5, 1, 1.5, 2.5, 4... Still tends to the same ratio.
I thought the thing that makes a photo to look good are: 1. Optics arrangement 2. Sensor size 3. Back Side Illumination 4. Image Signal Processor 5. Aperture and Exposure 6. Stability of the lens (either by digital or OIS)
Their not talking about image quality. Its about what your eye looks at first. Like if you saw a picture arrange in a spiral your eyes would go around and straight into the center of what ever photo your looking at or drawing or advertisement. The rule of thirds you can see on a grid. The golden rule is in nature you can see it plants animals, whirlpools.
The optics and sensors and all that stuff are criteria for choosing a camera. We're not discussing that. We're talking about technique. After all, you can give a Leica to a hack, and he'll take snapshots. You can give a cell phone to an accomplished photographer, and he'll take high quality photos. So don't put a lousy driver in your Corvette.
James Oldfield lol. It's simple. Line up the thing you're taking a picture of (the subject) so that it touches two intersecting points on the grid. If your background isn't complete crap, the picture will look a million times better than if you just centered the subject. Also focusing the lens to blur out everything but the subject helps too.
Message to everybody watching; fuck the rules, photography or film don't have any rules. Using these grids may be helpful but making use of this doesn't grant you a nice picture.
I adopted these styles by myself before I even knew about them. This is not boasting, I'm pointing out that nature will just take it's course... I naturally preferred to take pictures using those ratios, because they just looked better to me! Wow.. now I know about this, I can't stop trying too hard now and my pics never feel as natural as they did before I knew about this.
I'd never really paid any attention to either. I just took photos in a way that I thought looked visually appealing. Then, one of my friends who is a professional photographer (I'm just a hobbyist), asked if I used the Golden Ratio to compose my photos, because it looked like I was. When I told him I had no idea, he thought it might be fun to see if my photos fit in the Golden Ratio. Surprisingly, most of my photos fit in the ratio really well; not all, but most.
im taking a photography class right now and all that matters is getting the subjects framed properly with without any distractions. strictly adhering to rules of alignment is too orthodox and might just obscure the potential of a shot
Both are useful in different ways. Using rule of thirds is a guideline as is the spiral. The thirds rule is great when you are taking normal shots that are made to highlight the whole frame. Great for general portraits. I have used the spiral when it applies to curved lines and wanting to draw attention in a direction across a photo. For instance shots to show human form (nude, ballet, martial arts etc.) tend to look more pleasing to the human eye using the spiral. That being said these rules are a guide to start from. Composing a shot depends on many more factors than just a ratio or two.
I read an article not to long ago about how Nintendo seems to use the Golden Ratio on many of their more recent box arts on the WiiU. It's crazy how much of this stuff can go unnoticed until you learn about it, then it seems to be everywhere you look.
The Golden Ratio seems to be something deeply ingrained in our existence. We see it in nature and even the cosmos, and our brains find it pleasing when we see something that follows the ratio. Interesting huh?
The golden ratio is found in almost everything. classical art, and architecture have used it as a rule of thumb for quite some time. It's even used to properly proportion bodies and faces. It's so ingrained in the psyche that when someone or thing doesn't approximate it, we tend to think he/she/it is ugly or unrealistic.
Fantastic explanation! Just got into photography and I must say that yours was the clearest most comprehensive explanation of this doctrine or guideline of photography. Thank you, I have subscribed and liked!
As a photographer, know both (and all other "rules") but when taking pictures feel free to break the rules. The rules are just some sure ways to make a picture more interesting an pleasing to the eye, but if you find any other composition that works, go for it.
The thing I find interesting about the Golden Spiral is that at every step the line looses some of it's curve. This can be carried out to infinity and the line will NEVER be strait.
I don't mean to sound rude, but honestly, if you can't compose an aesthetically pleasing photograph without having to compare it to some grid to see if it matches, photography may not be for you.
The voice of sanity - thank you! If composition and 'art' was as simple as blindly placing the bird on a tic-tac-toe board or 'magic spiral,' we'd all be masters. Every image must find a balance of light and dark, textured and smooth, of contrasting or complimenting colors, etc. This necessary balance will never be achieved by blindly following some dumbed-down 'rule.' LOOK through the viewfinder and move the camera and subjects around until you find aesthetic appeal in the image. Push the shutter. IMO, if ROT ever enters your conscious thought process, 'You're doing it wrong!' ;)
Since both methods operate sub-consciously, how can we accurately say one is better than the other? Quantifying internal feelings/opinions has been a major issue in science for centuries, and no method has been able to accurately quantify a feeling without the quantities becoming relative to the person being examined.
Never used the Fibonacci sequence in photography, but I do use it all the time in furniture making and timber craft, it gives a better aesthetic and aids in functionality when one required dimension is used determine other nonspecific dimensions.
Since my cameras have a rule of thirds grid, I use that as a general guideline. I kind of mentally take a step back and look at the whole photo to see how it looks. Since the advent of high quality digital cameras, I have started taking several pictures with different compositions so that I can study them later, then choose and crop as needed. It's interesting to note that the Gimp (free and open source image editor) offers both a rule of thirds and golden ratio grid. The two are actually quite similar. I suppose you could choose one and precisely put the point of interest at one of the four intersections. For that matter, a computer would be quite adept at doing the same thing. But it is art more than science. The best thing to do is to use whatever rule you like to get things approximately where they should be, then use your artistic eye to shoot that perfect photo.
During my first (foundation) year of art school five years ago, the golden ratio was talked about in 2D design class--but not taught well, and I still struggle to understand it beyond the fact that I know that it's found in nature a lot (nautilus shells being a really good example) and works like the Vitruvian Man (also: the math that Tara talked about went WAAAAYYYY over my head--however, it's me, not her). Once I started my diploma in photography, however, the golden ratio was never mentioned--but the rule of thirds, which I immediately understood, was. So for me (I'm only speaking for myself on this subject), while the examples that DNews uses for the golden ratio are just as nice compositionally as the images used to demonstrate the rule of thirds, the rule of thirds is better simply because I understand it--and I've been able to get a lot of beautiful images while using it.
The Golden Section rule says that you allign a center of interest on a golden section proportion of Height or Width. Your first picture of the Blonde Girl showing the thirds grid ACTUALLY lines her eyes ( the center of interest) on the Golden Section proportion. .618 .382
Naturally it depends on many factors. But if i had to give some general rule about the two, id say that golden ratio when you want some detail to be composed so that it gets attention and rule of thirds when you want to separate different segments of an image.
I was referring specifically to the title "the golden ratio". I've never heard that title before, as I have only been familiar with phi and fibonacci's sequence as the names.
Well, the Fibonacci sequence is the name given to s specific sequence that approaches the golden ratio. 1,1,2,3,5,8, etc. It's the one that starts with two 1's. But really you can start a sequence with any two numbers and follow the same rule and get closer to the golden ratio. 4,16,20,36,56,92 or 9,200,209,409,618,1027. So the Fibonacci sequence is just one of the sequences that follows the golden ratio. It's just famous because of how neat and small it is. It's the smallest sequence using whole numbers.
When taking a photo, one thing I tend to do is prevent overfocus on one aspect of an image. Take a picture of a face? Make sure there's a neck attached to it as well nd shoulders nearby; don't neglect what's holding the head up. Foot fetish? I want to see the person's face as well so I'll know who's stuff it is. Same thing with cleavage; boobs aren't anything if they have no personality behind them. The subject of an image needs something to compare to, to bring contrast, disparity. It becomes harder to appreciate, or notice, the object of interest if there is nothing else to compare. It is hard to appreciate the brightness of a candle if it has no darkness to combat.
Odd. Apparently I have subconsciously been favoring Golden Ratio photography for the composition of most my pics. I do find that having the main subject of your photo to be smack up and center of your picture makes the photo bland, obvious, and too boring. Golden Ratio adds fluidity to the pic and naturally seems to guide your eyes where you want the main focus to go, and finding that composition while taking g a picture actually makes photography much more fun for me. 😺
since we have technology that can track the eyes it would be interesting to know where people who aren't exposed to pictures much loo when showed different pictures, seems like that would be the ultimate test of where to put subjects
It's not just for photography. For goodness sakes, it's for all forms are art - traditional drawings and paintings, digital drawings and paintings, sculpture, it can even be used in landscaping a garden.
That's a pretty good point, although it may not apply as well if you're photographing an animal, sporting event, weather or similar thing where timing is crucial and you may not get the same opportunity twice.
As long you know what you're doing it's fine to try different techniques. It's great that you can do this but its also the downside of digital cameras: It's so easy to not think about your photo at all because you might not value the cost and effort in taking pictures.
Being a newbie to photography, I'm still in the phase of thinking about every shot, wondering how to make it better and if I'm following the "rules" correctly (knowing full well that they're guidelines, not rules ;) ) But I also never intend to go pro with my work either, I will always be a newbie because it's just a hobby for me, and not one I dedicate much time or investment into.
***** If you're a newbie, the best thing to do is take lots and lots of pictures. Since some cameras have sound recorders for the purpose of taking notes, you might want to make use of it -- uttering your thoughts as you snap each frame.
Ray Drouillard Sound recorders... I wonder if Peter Parker knows about that. Imagine Spider-Man getting the entire audio track to a fight with the Green Goblin in addition to photos for the Daily Bugle newspaper.
When you begin to argue what grid is better, then you clearly missed the point. In the end it comes down to: Be aware that centered objects may look (intentionally) stiff. Be aware that objects at the borders tend to be not obvious to the viewers(, when not supported by other composition tricks like spirals).
Pretty good explanation, but I am more of the rule of "shoot whatever you want however you want" type of guy. These "rules' are great for those that are jsut learning how to compose/frame up in the most appealing way. In the end though, they aren't so much rules as they are guides. To call them rules is a total misnomer.
I object to the concept of this video. Having a commercial in the beginning, forming a content related to or created by the sponsor and finally a commercial in the end.
The association of the main numbers in the field of mathematics with each other, reflects numerical sequences that correspond to the dimensions of the Earth, the Moon, and the Sun in the unit of measurement in meters, which is: 1' (second) / 299792458 m/s (speed of light in a vacuum). Ramanujan number: 1,729 Earth's equatorial radius: 6,378 km. Golden number: 1.61803... • (1,729 x 6,378 x (10^-3)) ^1.61803 x (10^-3) = 3,474.18 Moon's diameter: 3,474 km. Ramanujan number: 1,729 Speed of light: 299,792,458 m/s Earth's Equatorial Diameter: 12,756 km. Earth's Equatorial Radius: 6,378 km. • (1,729 x 299,792,458) / 12,756 / 6,378) = 6,371 Earth's average radius: 6,371 km. The Cubit The cubit = Pi - phi^2 = 0.5236 Lunar distance: 384,400 km. (0.5236 x (10^6) - 384,400) x 10 = 1,392,000 Sun´s diameter: 1,392,000 km. Higgs Boson: 125.35 (GeV) Phi: 1.61803... (125.35 x (10^-1) - 1.61803) x (10^3) = 10,916.97 Circumference of the Moon: 10,916 km. Golden number: 1.618 Golden Angle: 137.5 Earth's equatorial radius: 6,378 Universal Gravitation G = 6.67 x 10^-11 N.m^2/kg^2. (((1.618 ^137.5) / 6,378) / 6.67) x (10^-20) = 12,756.62 Earth’s equatorial diameter: 12,756 km. The Euler Number is approximately: 2.71828... Newton’s law of gravitation: G = 6.67 x 10^-11 N.m^2/kg^2. Golden number: 1.618ɸ (2.71828 ^ 6.67) x 1.618 x 10 = 12,756.23 Earth’s equatorial diameter: 12,756 km. Planck’s constant: 6.63 × 10-34 m2 kg. Circumference of the Moon: 10,916. Gold equation: 1,618 ɸ (((6.63 ^ (10,916 x 10^-4 )) x 1.618 x (10^3)= 12,756.82 Earth’s equatorial diameter: 12,756 km. Planck's temperature: 1.41679 x 10^32 Kelvin. Newton’s law of gravitation: G = 6.67 x 10^-11 N.m^2/kg^2. Speed of Sound: 340.29 m/s (1.41679 ^ 6.67) x 340.29 - 1 = 3,474.81 Moon's diameter:: 3,474 km. Cosmic microwave background radiation: 2.725 kelvins 160.4 GHz, Pi: 3.14 Earth's polar radius: 6,357 km. ((2,725 x 160.4) / 3.14 x (10^4) - (6,357 x 10^-3) = 1,392,000 The diameter of the Sun: 1,392,000 km. Numbers 3, 6 & 9 - Nikola Tesla One Parsec = 206265 AU = 3.26 light-years = 3.086 × 10^13 km. The Numbers: 3, 6 and 9 ((3^6) x 9) - (3.086 x (10^3)) -1 = 3,474 The Moon's diameter: 3,474 km. Now we will use the diameter of the Moon. Moon's diameter: 3,474 km. (3.474 + 369 + 1) x (10^2) = 384,400 The term L.D (Lunar Distance) refers to the average distance between the Earth and the Moon, which is 384,400 km. Moon's diameter: 3,474 km. ((3+6+9) x 3 x 6 x 9) - 9 - 3 + 3,474 = 6,378 Earth's equatorial radius: 6,378 km. Orion: The Connection between Heaven and Earth eBook 1 Arthur Geometry
As she said in the video... A = total length of the line - a point on the line separates the line into 2 segments - B = 1 segment of the line A - C = other segment of the line - so neither B or C can ever be longer (or bigger) than A as they are defined as a segment of A
The Golden Ratio is an irrational number that continuously changes. Therefore it is the shape of CHAOS. The 'Rule of Thirds' (sometimes referred to as the 1-2-3 PRINCIPLE) is the shape of ORDER. Inbetween Order and Chaos is BALANCE which is a separate element in and of itself that is 1/2 ORDER and 1/2 CHAOS. The combination of ORDER-BALANCE-CHAOS is a dynamic systems theory that some call the 'Hegelian Dialectic'... THESIS-SYNTHESIS-ANTITHESIS Or... PARADOX SYSTEMS THEORY. Here's some examples... PAST PRESENT FUTURE PROTON NEUTRON ELECTRON HEIGHT WIDTH DEPTH ETERNITY TEMPORALITY OBLIVION MOTION VIBRATION NONMOTION FAST DECELERATION SLOW SLOW ACCELERATION FAST LIGHT TWILIGHT DARKNESS BLACK GRAY WHITE BLUE RED YELLOW PURPLE ORANGE GREEN BACKGROUND MIDDLE GROUND FOREGROUND OPENING GAME MIDDLE GAME END GAME INDIVIDUAL COMMUNITY GOVERNMENT ORTHODOX HETERODOX HERESY FATHER CHILD MOTHER MALE HERMAPHRODITE FEMALE CHILDHOOD MIDDLE AGE OLD AGE BODY MIND SPIRIT SOLID LIQUID GAS HOT LUKEWARM COLD EVAPORATION MELTING CRYSTALLIZATION CHAOS BALANCE ORDER DORIC IONIC CORINTHIAN FATHER SON HOLY SPIRIT GROWTH HARVEST DECAY PLENTY SCARCITY FAMINE MEDICINE FOOD POISON HEALTHY SYMPTOMATIC SICKNESS IGNORANCE LEARNING WISDOM SCIENCE METAPHYSICS RELIGION MASTER FREEMAN SLAVE SACRED UNDECIDED PROFANE GOOD PLAIN EVIL RIGHT CHANGE WRONG TRADITIONAL CONTEMPORARY NOUVEAU SAFE DANGEROUS SUICIDE PEACE TRUCE WAR SILENCE SYMPHONY CACAPHONY WALTZ MUSIC SYNCOPATED RYTHYMS JAZZ FORMAL COLLOQUIAL INFORMAL MASCULINE FORM NEUTER FORM FEMININE FORM EXECUTIVE JUDICIAL LEGISLATIVE FEDERAL STATE LOCAL RESIDENTIAL COMMERCIAL INDUSTRIAL UPPER CLASS MIDDLE CLASS LOWER CLASS WINNING GAMBLING LOSING HOMEOWNERSHIP RENT HOMELESSNESS PITCH YAW ROLL FISSION STABLE FUSION ATOMIC X-Y-Z AXIS THREE ELECTRON PROBABILITY AREAS... 1/3 AND 2/3 FRACTIONAL CHARGES IN QUARKS FIBONACCI NUMBERS (THE TRIUNE BRAIN) REPTILIAN COMPLEX PALEOMAMMALIAN COMPLEX NEOMAMMALIAN COMPLEX SUPERCONDUCTOR RATIOS. The 1-2-3 Principle is imbedded in the Periodic Table of the Elements...(N squared times 2 determines electron shell numbers.) SEE ALSO: 1. E=MC2 2. TESLA'S 3-6-9 3. 1+2+3 = 1×2×3 4. BIBLICAL THREES 5. ATOMIC X-Y-Z AXIS 6. CHROMOELECTRODYNAMICS 7. BUDDHA'S MIDDLE PATH 8. SUPERCONDUCTOR RATIOS 9. HEISENBERG UNCERTAINTY PRINCIPLE 10. QUARKS 11. FAIRYTALES (Goldilocks, etc) 12. TRUISMS ("Third times the charm") 13. FREEMASONRY (3 DEGREES, 3 GREAT LIGHTS, 3 SETS OF WORKING TOOLS THAT COME IN THREES, ETC...) If you need more chaos in your art, use the Golden Ratio or a FIBONACCI SPIRAL. If you need more ORDER, use the Rule of Thirds. If you want a harmonic BALANCE of both...use both.
Your Head and Elbows, (medium shot) is composed well. It does not put a frame line at a natural joint. The head and elbows cuts at the navel, ( which is the middle of the abdominal part of the body) ie Just under the elbows of the folded arms.
I didn't know there was a whole formula or term to all this, I just found that a particular layout is more visually appealing, but I could never explain why, but most pictures I've taken oddly fit in to this golden rule. I've never gotten technical with it, I just went by gut feel, and people seemed to like it **shrug**
Crop large raw shots. Get both out of one photo. And what if I lined up my pictures in between the intersecting points from both grids? Does it create super tension?
It really depends on the nature of the composition. It's silly to think that there's ever a single supreme method that will work equally well in all scenarios.
uhm... why the center is bad? photographers and painters have had using center line since the beginning of art, it's not bad by any mean. And btw the rule of third is mediocre, unbalanced, and uninteresting, just stop using it
ImaGhostSE It doesn't have to be exact, especially not immediately as you take the picture with a digital camera. As long as you have a general idea of where things might line up your good for that. For more accuracy, try cropping the photo-later- after you have taken the shot.
Some good cameras actually have indicators within the viewfinder which align with the golden ratio instead of the rule-of-thirds. Pentax, for instance. The K-3 indicators for the AF points indicate the Golden Ratio within a golden rectangle [not the 1:1.5 frame]. The SF1/SFx has the width of the focus indicator LEDs at the bottom of the frame be the same as the width of the lines within a golden rectangle also. (Not sure about the side indicators). Other cameras may have something similar.
"The main complaint with the Rule of Thirds is that it can look too obvious, where as the Phi Grid makes photos appear more natural and less rigid." Well, yeah, when one subject is a rocky coast, and the other is a fence whose man-made lines follow the RoT grid perfectly, haha. Let's see the Golden Ratio version of that fence picture side-by-side with the one used in the example.
Couldn't* care less.. I'm not trying to be a grammar nazi, that's just the one that hits the nerve lol, I have even seen shirts say "could". When the whole idea is that they couldn't.. care less.
Watching strange mystery's episode on the golden ratio made like no sense to me as there was no true explanation of what the ratio had to do with all the pictures shown, but in the short 1:45 of this video I learned that which strange mysteries had me confuse.
ABC (accuracy+brevity+clarity) is also a good ‘Rule of thirds’ when attempting to deliver information and remain succinct, interesting and informative, sorry but I could only hack one third of this due to the high-speed waffle.
This is an invitation to see a theory on the nature of time! In this theory we have an emergent uncertain future continuously coming into existence relative to the spontaneous absorption and emission of photon energy. In this process we even have an objective reason for the start of the Fibonacci numbers 0, 1, 1,... with the t = 0 and the positive +1 and negative -1 representing the positive and negative of electromagnetic waves with everything being based on one geometrical process. In this theory the future is not random it is based on a process of spherical symmetry forming and breaking. Spherical symmetry forms the low entropy that we see if we look back in time at the ‘big bang’ and also forms the potential for ever greater symmetry formation that we have in cell life with the Fibonacci spiral being visible almost everywhere in nature! This is because if the quantum wave particle function Ψ or probability function is reformulated as a linear vector then all the information I have found says that each new vector is formed by adding the two previous vectors together this forms the Fibonacci Sequence 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144, ∞ infinity!
In response to each one, you should ask, "Why is it so?" I reckon each one is nonsense. Ansel Adams is reputed to have said, "There are no rules in photography, just good photographs." I myself have seen highly effective photograph were both notions were purposefully set aside. If they don't apply all the time, then they are not rules.
The Golden Ratio is the same thing that people also like to refer to as God's Fingerprint. As they said in the videos it is a spiral measurement that is so precise & can be found all over the universe.
Along with photography, understanding the Golden Ratio can allow you to make steel balls spin like crazy in your hand or, if you're riding a horse with stirrups, you can access the infinite energy contained between dimensions. ORA!ORA!ORA!ORA!ORA!
When used in photography both have their respective strengths. Photographers mustn't forget however that they are merely guidelines used to illustrate technique to novices. Photographers will use one or another but will mostly follow their own 'eye'. Sometimes it fits in the 'rule of thirds' other times it fits in 'the golden ratio'. There is no right in any art form, regardless of what critics may say.
My first rule of thumb is don't talk about my thumb.
The second is to make sure I've taken the lense cap off
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Did she just say "for hundreds of years the rule of thirds has been one of the most universal accepted guidelines for composing photographs"? I didn't know photography has been around that long!
+moccoyen the first photo was taken in 1826
+Kevin Rooney She's ten years too early.
+smb10011001 please see dictionary.reference.com/browse/hundreds definition 4
moccoyen The real mistake here is using the word photograph when she was reffering to portraits and pictures in general.
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As a numberphile I am shocked they did not say Fibonacci once.
i think they're just trying to get away from getting too technical on their video(and therefore avoiding mentioning fibonacci), which is good, because not everyone is a numberphile like you(or, as a matter of fact, me).
+BuickGirl1986 smh tbh fam
shes just taking credit for something that already was created and had a name, thats all i can see
Why would they? the ratio is found in many number sets, Fibonacci is not unique, Lucas and Binet formulas as well...
Me too, in fact, I learned about Fibonacci before golden ratio. I even knew about the diagram but didn't know about the golden ratio
Remember! These are NOT rules, they are GUIDES!
Unless you have a project you need to do, and they require you to use the rule of thirds
"Thank you, Gyro"
So the Golden Ratio is basically Fibonacci's Sequence?
yep, if you divide any number in the Fibonacci Sequence by the number before it, it will be close to the golden ratio (phi). and the further along you are in the sequence the closer the ratio will actually be to phi.
Dennis Davis Any sequence that follows those set of rules will encroach on Phi, not just the Fibonacci Sequence. The Fibonacci Sequence is only special insofar as it is the first sequence in an uncountable infinite number of sequences.
James Oldfield the terms don't need to be integers.
For example consider the Fibonacci sequence divided by 2:
0.5, 0.5, 1, 1.5, 2.5, 4...
Still tends to the same ratio.
JNCressey Oh. Well scratch that then. It's uncountably infinite. It is literally a Fibonacci sequence of unspecialness... :/
I thought the thing that makes a photo to look good are:
1. Optics arrangement
2. Sensor size
3. Back Side Illumination
4. Image Signal Processor
5. Aperture and Exposure
6. Stability of the lens (either by digital or OIS)
Their not talking about image quality. Its about what your eye looks at first. Like if you saw a picture arrange in a spiral your eyes would go around and straight into the center of what ever photo your looking at or drawing or advertisement. The rule of thirds you can see on a grid. The golden rule is in nature you can see it plants animals, whirlpools.
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Oh no, are you one of those digital photographers?
The optics and sensors and all that stuff are criteria for choosing a camera.
We're not discussing that. We're talking about technique. After all, you can give a Leica to a hack, and he'll take snapshots. You can give a cell phone to an accomplished photographer, and he'll take high quality photos.
So don't put a lousy driver in your Corvette.
That's what makes a camera better than others. But you still need a good photographer to shoot good pictures.
Now I know what those grids were for! 😭
lol me too😂
iXbeXy I still don't ;__;
James Oldfield lol. It's simple. Line up the thing you're taking a picture of (the subject) so that it touches two intersecting points on the grid. If your background isn't complete crap, the picture will look a million times better than if you just centered the subject. Also focusing the lens to blur out everything but the subject helps too.
SatanistSin Thirdsing it ups easy but finboancaiiing it isn't
James Oldfield you line the subject up with the smallest spiral.
It ends up being just about the same thing though.
Okay, so how many of us came from Steel Ball Run?
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will look some porn pics to see if i can detect what method they used.
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Dyexmax That's a terrifying image...
Message to everybody watching; fuck the rules, photography or film don't have any rules. Using these grids may be helpful but making use of this doesn't grant you a nice picture.
Yes it does :p
James Oldfield You think making use of the grid will get you a nice picture?
TheTwicey Did you even see that emoticon? -_-
James Oldfield Ofcourse I did, but it could have been a sign u used to show that you were respectfully disagreeing which is possible.
TheTwicey Nope
She reminds me of Laura Prepon.
You limit yourself too much. The golden ratio is also used in designing aquarium aquascapes, gardens, landscapes and art.
I adopted these styles by myself before I even knew about them. This is not boasting, I'm pointing out that nature will just take it's course... I naturally preferred to take pictures using those ratios, because they just looked better to me! Wow.. now I know about this, I can't stop trying too hard now and my pics never feel as natural as they did before I knew about this.
I'd never really paid any attention to either. I just took photos in a way that I thought looked visually appealing. Then, one of my friends who is a professional photographer (I'm just a hobbyist), asked if I used the Golden Ratio to compose my photos, because it looked like I was. When I told him I had no idea, he thought it might be fun to see if my photos fit in the Golden Ratio. Surprisingly, most of my photos fit in the ratio really well; not all, but most.
im taking a photography class right now and all that matters is getting the subjects framed properly with without any distractions. strictly adhering to rules of alignment is too orthodox and might just obscure the potential of a shot
That's the first time I've heard "eschew" used in a youtube. Bravo!
Thank you DNews. I knew what the rule of thirds was but had never heard of the golden ratio.
Both are useful in different ways. Using rule of thirds is a guideline as is the spiral. The thirds rule is great when you are taking normal shots that are made to highlight the whole frame. Great for general portraits. I have used the spiral when it applies to curved lines and wanting to draw attention in a direction across a photo. For instance shots to show human form (nude, ballet, martial arts etc.) tend to look more pleasing to the human eye using the spiral. That being said these rules are a guide to start from. Composing a shot depends on many more factors than just a ratio or two.
I read an article not to long ago about how Nintendo seems to use the Golden Ratio on many of their more recent box arts on the WiiU. It's crazy how much of this stuff can go unnoticed until you learn about it, then it seems to be everywhere you look.
I'm so glad I stumbled upon this video, I love Tara and lost sight of her since destructoid. It made my day!
The Golden Ratio seems to be something deeply ingrained in our existence. We see it in nature and even the cosmos, and our brains find it pleasing when we see something that follows the ratio. Interesting huh?
The golden ratio is found in almost everything. classical art, and architecture have used it as a rule of thumb for quite some time. It's even used to properly proportion bodies and faces. It's so ingrained in the psyche that when someone or thing doesn't approximate it, we tend to think he/she/it is ugly or unrealistic.
Fantastic explanation! Just got into photography and I must say that yours was the clearest most comprehensive explanation of this doctrine or guideline of photography. Thank you, I have subscribed and liked!
The rule I use for taking photos... I position the camera until what I see in the screen looks good.
This felt like a nice introduction to the concepts, but just as things were getting interesting, the video ends!?!
As a photographer, know both (and all other "rules") but when taking pictures feel free to break the rules. The rules are just some sure ways to make a picture more interesting an pleasing to the eye, but if you find any other composition that works, go for it.
The thing I find interesting about the Golden Spiral is that at every step the line looses some of it's curve. This can be carried out to infinity and the line will NEVER be strait.
I don't mean to sound rude, but honestly, if you can't compose an aesthetically pleasing photograph without having to compare it to some grid to see if it matches, photography may not be for you.
The voice of sanity - thank you!
If composition and 'art' was as simple as blindly placing the bird on a tic-tac-toe board or 'magic spiral,' we'd all be masters. Every image must find a balance of light and dark, textured and smooth, of contrasting or complimenting colors, etc. This necessary balance will never be achieved by blindly following some dumbed-down 'rule.' LOOK through the viewfinder and move the camera and subjects around until you find aesthetic appeal in the image. Push the shutter. IMO, if ROT ever enters your conscious thought process, 'You're doing it wrong!' ;)
Noel Kerns these guides are helpful for people who just started tho lol snob much?
Since both methods operate sub-consciously, how can we accurately say one is better than the other? Quantifying internal feelings/opinions has been a major issue in science for centuries, and no method has been able to accurately quantify a feeling without the quantities becoming relative to the person being examined.
Never used the Fibonacci sequence in photography, but I do use it all the time in furniture making and timber craft, it gives a better aesthetic and aids in functionality when one required dimension is used determine other nonspecific dimensions.
Since my cameras have a rule of thirds grid, I use that as a general guideline. I kind of mentally take a step back and look at the whole photo to see how it looks.
Since the advent of high quality digital cameras, I have started taking several pictures with different compositions so that I can study them later, then choose and crop as needed.
It's interesting to note that the Gimp (free and open source image editor) offers both a rule of thirds and golden ratio grid.
The two are actually quite similar.
I suppose you could choose one and precisely put the point of interest at one of the four intersections. For that matter, a computer would be quite adept at doing the same thing.
But it is art more than science. The best thing to do is to use whatever rule you like to get things approximately where they should be, then use your artistic eye to shoot that perfect photo.
MY guidelines?
"Is it in the frame?" and "Is there enough light?" and ""Is it in focus?"
But I'm known for being an indifferent photographer.
Clearly not an artist. More of a natural photographer.
James Oldfield Natural photographer? A little lofty in the title. More like "casual pic-snapper".
During my first (foundation) year of art school five years ago, the golden ratio was talked about in 2D design class--but not taught well, and I still struggle to understand it beyond the fact that I know that it's found in nature a lot (nautilus shells being a really good example) and works like the Vitruvian Man (also: the math that Tara talked about went WAAAAYYYY over my head--however, it's me, not her). Once I started my diploma in photography, however, the golden ratio was never mentioned--but the rule of thirds, which I immediately understood, was. So for me (I'm only speaking for myself on this subject), while the examples that DNews uses for the golden ratio are just as nice compositionally as the images used to demonstrate the rule of thirds, the rule of thirds is better simply because I understand it--and I've been able to get a lot of beautiful images while using it.
The Golden Section rule says that you allign a center of interest on a golden section proportion of Height or Width. Your first picture of the Blonde Girl showing the thirds grid ACTUALLY lines her eyes ( the center of interest) on the Golden Section proportion. .618 .382
This gives a good set of examples of how the Golden Ratio or Golden Mean creates aesthetics.
Naturally it depends on many factors. But if i had to give some general rule about the two, id say that golden ratio when you want some detail to be composed so that it gets attention and rule of thirds when you want to separate different segments of an image.
Isn't that just Fibonacci's sequence? Why give it a whole new name?
A sequence and a number are different
Not just Fibonacci sequence can make Phi, there are infinite other sequences that can make that too.
I was referring specifically to the title "the golden ratio". I've never heard that title before, as I have only been familiar with phi and fibonacci's sequence as the names.
The ratios between each number in the fibonacci sequence converge to phi but are never actually equal to phi.
Well, the Fibonacci sequence is the name given to s specific sequence that approaches the golden ratio. 1,1,2,3,5,8, etc. It's the one that starts with two 1's. But really you can start a sequence with any two numbers and follow the same rule and get closer to the golden ratio. 4,16,20,36,56,92 or 9,200,209,409,618,1027. So the Fibonacci sequence is just one of the sequences that follows the golden ratio. It's just famous because of how neat and small it is. It's the smallest sequence using whole numbers.
When taking a photo, one thing I tend to do is prevent overfocus on one aspect of an image. Take a picture of a face? Make sure there's a neck attached to it as well nd shoulders nearby; don't neglect what's holding the head up. Foot fetish? I want to see the person's face as well so I'll know who's stuff it is. Same thing with cleavage; boobs aren't anything if they have no personality behind them.
The subject of an image needs something to compare to, to bring contrast, disparity. It becomes harder to appreciate, or notice, the object of interest if there is nothing else to compare. It is hard to appreciate the brightness of a candle if it has no darkness to combat.
Odd. Apparently I have subconsciously been favoring Golden Ratio photography for the composition of most my pics. I do find that having the main subject of your photo to be smack up and center of your picture makes the photo bland, obvious, and too boring. Golden Ratio adds fluidity to the pic and naturally seems to guide your eyes where you want the main focus to go, and finding that composition while taking g a picture actually makes photography much more fun for me. 😺
So you used the golden ratio to set your subject or did u just eyeball it.
There's a great amount of hearsay knowledge thrown in as actual knowledge in this video.
since we have technology that can track the eyes it would be interesting to know where people who aren't exposed to pictures much loo when showed different pictures, seems like that would be the ultimate test of where to put subjects
It's not just for photography. For goodness sakes, it's for all forms are art - traditional drawings and paintings, digital drawings and paintings, sculpture, it can even be used in landscaping a garden.
So which one is better for taking a selfie?
Try both, then keep the one that looks better. In the world of digital cameras you can afford to do that. It's not like you're wasting any film :)
That's a pretty good point, although it may not apply as well if you're photographing an animal, sporting event, weather or similar thing where timing is crucial and you may not get the same opportunity twice.
As long you know what you're doing it's fine to try different techniques. It's great that you can do this but its also the downside of digital cameras: It's so easy to not think about your photo at all because you might not value the cost and effort in taking pictures.
Being a newbie to photography, I'm still in the phase of thinking about every shot, wondering how to make it better and if I'm following the "rules" correctly (knowing full well that they're guidelines, not rules ;) )
But I also never intend to go pro with my work either, I will always be a newbie because it's just a hobby for me, and not one I dedicate much time or investment into.
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If you're a newbie, the best thing to do is take lots and lots of pictures. Since some cameras have sound recorders for the purpose of taking notes, you might want to make use of it -- uttering your thoughts as you snap each frame.
Ray Drouillard Sound recorders... I wonder if Peter Parker knows about that. Imagine Spider-Man getting the entire audio track to a fight with the Green Goblin in addition to photos for the Daily Bugle newspaper.
I always use the rule of thirds. I'm gonna start using the golden ratio too. Thank you.
Not even if a man pointed a gun at your head? :/
golden ratio looks hard and time consuming
Thank you based DNews for placing commercial on end of video.
When you begin to argue what grid is better, then you clearly missed the point.
In the end it comes down to: Be aware that centered objects may look (intentionally) stiff.
Be aware that objects at the borders tend to be not obvious to the viewers(, when not supported by other composition tricks like spirals).
Pretty good explanation, but I am more of the rule of "shoot whatever you want however you want" type of guy. These "rules' are great for those that are jsut learning how to compose/frame up in the most appealing way. In the end though, they aren't so much rules as they are guides. To call them rules is a total misnomer.
nice vid. I was curious about the math, but the photography angle is really fun
I object to the concept of this video. Having a commercial in the beginning, forming a content related to or created by the sponsor and finally a commercial in the end.
The association of the main numbers in the field of mathematics with each other, reflects numerical sequences that correspond to the dimensions of the Earth, the Moon, and the Sun in the unit of measurement in meters, which is: 1' (second) / 299792458 m/s (speed of light in a vacuum).
Ramanujan number: 1,729
Earth's equatorial radius: 6,378 km.
Golden number: 1.61803...
• (1,729 x 6,378 x (10^-3)) ^1.61803 x (10^-3) = 3,474.18
Moon's diameter: 3,474 km.
Ramanujan number: 1,729
Speed of light: 299,792,458 m/s
Earth's Equatorial Diameter: 12,756 km. Earth's Equatorial Radius: 6,378 km.
• (1,729 x 299,792,458) / 12,756 / 6,378) = 6,371
Earth's average radius: 6,371 km.
The Cubit
The cubit = Pi - phi^2 = 0.5236
Lunar distance: 384,400 km.
(0.5236 x (10^6) - 384,400) x 10 = 1,392,000
Sun´s diameter: 1,392,000 km.
Higgs Boson: 125.35 (GeV)
Phi: 1.61803...
(125.35 x (10^-1) - 1.61803) x (10^3) = 10,916.97
Circumference of the Moon: 10,916 km.
Golden number: 1.618
Golden Angle: 137.5
Earth's equatorial radius: 6,378
Universal Gravitation G = 6.67 x 10^-11 N.m^2/kg^2.
(((1.618 ^137.5) / 6,378) / 6.67) x (10^-20) = 12,756.62
Earth’s equatorial diameter: 12,756 km.
The Euler Number is approximately: 2.71828...
Newton’s law of gravitation: G = 6.67 x 10^-11 N.m^2/kg^2. Golden number: 1.618ɸ
(2.71828 ^ 6.67) x 1.618 x 10 = 12,756.23
Earth’s equatorial diameter: 12,756 km.
Planck’s constant: 6.63 × 10-34 m2 kg.
Circumference of the Moon: 10,916.
Gold equation: 1,618 ɸ
(((6.63 ^ (10,916 x 10^-4 )) x 1.618 x (10^3)= 12,756.82
Earth’s equatorial diameter: 12,756 km.
Planck's temperature: 1.41679 x 10^32 Kelvin.
Newton’s law of gravitation: G = 6.67 x 10^-11 N.m^2/kg^2.
Speed of Sound: 340.29 m/s
(1.41679 ^ 6.67) x 340.29 - 1 = 3,474.81
Moon's diameter:: 3,474 km.
Cosmic microwave background radiation:
2.725 kelvins
160.4 GHz,
Pi: 3.14
Earth's polar radius: 6,357 km.
((2,725 x 160.4) / 3.14 x (10^4) - (6,357 x 10^-3) = 1,392,000
The diameter of the Sun: 1,392,000 km.
Numbers 3, 6 & 9 - Nikola Tesla
One Parsec = 206265 AU = 3.26 light-years = 3.086 × 10^13 km.
The Numbers: 3, 6 and 9
((3^6) x 9) - (3.086 x (10^3)) -1 = 3,474
The Moon's diameter: 3,474 km.
Now we will use the diameter of the Moon.
Moon's diameter: 3,474 km.
(3.474 + 369 + 1) x (10^2) = 384,400
The term L.D (Lunar Distance) refers to the average distance between the Earth and the Moon, which is 384,400 km.
Moon's diameter: 3,474 km.
((3+6+9) x 3 x 6 x 9) - 9 - 3 + 3,474 = 6,378
Earth's equatorial radius: 6,378 km.
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Thanks that was an incredibly useful and helpful video, great upload.
This is the first time I've heard of the Golden Ratio. I've alway use the Rule of Thirds. My iPhone uses thirds when I edit.
1:47 how is b/a=1.618... when a is bigger than b ?
and (a+b)/b actually = 1+a/b and doesn't = b/a nor 1.618... ,they switched a and b ... fail
As she said in the video... A = total length of the line - a point on the line separates the line into 2 segments - B = 1 segment of the line A - C = other segment of the line - so neither B or C can ever be longer (or bigger) than A as they are defined as a segment of A
Clear, educative.
Good job.
The Golden Ratio is an irrational number that continuously changes. Therefore it is the shape of CHAOS.
The 'Rule of Thirds' (sometimes referred to as the 1-2-3 PRINCIPLE) is the shape of ORDER.
Inbetween Order and Chaos is BALANCE which is a separate element in and of itself that is 1/2 ORDER and 1/2 CHAOS.
The combination of ORDER-BALANCE-CHAOS is a dynamic systems theory that some call the 'Hegelian Dialectic'...
THESIS-SYNTHESIS-ANTITHESIS
Or...
PARADOX SYSTEMS THEORY.
Here's some examples...
PAST
PRESENT
FUTURE
PROTON
NEUTRON
ELECTRON
HEIGHT
WIDTH
DEPTH
ETERNITY
TEMPORALITY
OBLIVION
MOTION
VIBRATION
NONMOTION
FAST
DECELERATION
SLOW
SLOW
ACCELERATION
FAST
LIGHT
TWILIGHT
DARKNESS
BLACK
GRAY
WHITE
BLUE
RED
YELLOW
PURPLE
ORANGE
GREEN
BACKGROUND
MIDDLE GROUND
FOREGROUND
OPENING GAME
MIDDLE GAME
END GAME
INDIVIDUAL
COMMUNITY
GOVERNMENT
ORTHODOX
HETERODOX
HERESY
FATHER
CHILD
MOTHER
MALE
HERMAPHRODITE
FEMALE
CHILDHOOD
MIDDLE AGE
OLD AGE
BODY
MIND
SPIRIT
SOLID
LIQUID
GAS
HOT
LUKEWARM
COLD
EVAPORATION
MELTING
CRYSTALLIZATION
CHAOS
BALANCE
ORDER
DORIC
IONIC
CORINTHIAN
FATHER
SON
HOLY SPIRIT
GROWTH
HARVEST
DECAY
PLENTY
SCARCITY
FAMINE
MEDICINE
FOOD
POISON
HEALTHY
SYMPTOMATIC
SICKNESS
IGNORANCE
LEARNING
WISDOM
SCIENCE
METAPHYSICS
RELIGION
MASTER
FREEMAN
SLAVE
SACRED
UNDECIDED
PROFANE
GOOD
PLAIN
EVIL
RIGHT
CHANGE
WRONG
TRADITIONAL
CONTEMPORARY
NOUVEAU
SAFE
DANGEROUS
SUICIDE
PEACE
TRUCE
WAR
SILENCE
SYMPHONY
CACAPHONY
WALTZ MUSIC
SYNCOPATED RYTHYMS
JAZZ
FORMAL
COLLOQUIAL
INFORMAL
MASCULINE FORM
NEUTER FORM
FEMININE FORM
EXECUTIVE
JUDICIAL
LEGISLATIVE
FEDERAL
STATE
LOCAL
RESIDENTIAL
COMMERCIAL
INDUSTRIAL
UPPER CLASS
MIDDLE CLASS
LOWER CLASS
WINNING
GAMBLING
LOSING
HOMEOWNERSHIP
RENT
HOMELESSNESS
PITCH
YAW
ROLL
FISSION
STABLE
FUSION
ATOMIC X-Y-Z AXIS
THREE ELECTRON PROBABILITY AREAS...
1/3 AND 2/3 FRACTIONAL CHARGES IN QUARKS
FIBONACCI NUMBERS
(THE TRIUNE BRAIN)
REPTILIAN COMPLEX
PALEOMAMMALIAN COMPLEX
NEOMAMMALIAN COMPLEX
SUPERCONDUCTOR RATIOS.
The 1-2-3 Principle is imbedded in the Periodic Table of the Elements...(N squared times 2 determines electron shell numbers.)
SEE ALSO:
1. E=MC2
2. TESLA'S 3-6-9
3. 1+2+3 = 1×2×3
4. BIBLICAL THREES
5. ATOMIC X-Y-Z AXIS
6. CHROMOELECTRODYNAMICS
7. BUDDHA'S MIDDLE PATH
8. SUPERCONDUCTOR RATIOS
9. HEISENBERG UNCERTAINTY PRINCIPLE
10. QUARKS
11. FAIRYTALES (Goldilocks, etc)
12. TRUISMS ("Third times the charm")
13. FREEMASONRY (3 DEGREES, 3 GREAT LIGHTS, 3 SETS OF WORKING TOOLS THAT COME IN THREES, ETC...)
If you need more chaos in your art, use the Golden Ratio or a FIBONACCI SPIRAL.
If you need more ORDER, use the Rule of Thirds.
If you want a harmonic BALANCE of both...use both.
Your Head and Elbows, (medium shot) is composed well. It does not put a frame line at a natural joint. The head and elbows cuts at the navel, ( which is the middle of the abdominal part of the body) ie Just under the elbows of the folded arms.
I didn't know there was a whole formula or term to all this, I just found that a particular layout is more visually appealing, but I could never explain why, but most pictures I've taken oddly fit in to this golden rule.
I've never gotten technical with it, I just went by gut feel, and people seemed to like it
**shrug**
I take photos with a nikon and develop/print on canon
*#Anarchy*
Maybe that's why the ad was for a Canon printer and not camera :)
Thanks for such information, I like both rules.
you just took a universal algorithm that is at the basis of the function and design of our universe and turned into a photography commercial
1:13 "Somewhere in the middle of that line there is a point separating it into two segments of different lengths".
Where did you get your glasses? I love them!
lol, there is a picture with the main subject (milky way) centered in a picture behind Tara
Crop large raw shots. Get both out of one photo. And what if I lined up my pictures in between the intersecting points from both grids? Does it create super tension?
Why would you want to crop and lose resolution?
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I don't really need a full 8 megapixel photo for anything. Even when I do crop, it doesn't take much to change between those 2 grids.
Very interesting...and I think I just fell in love.
Please do one video about the triple point!
informative, clear, simple. great video~gj~
It really depends on the nature of the composition. It's silly to think that there's ever a single supreme method that will work equally well in all scenarios.
Talking about the rule of thirds whilst standing rigghhhhhhhttt in the middle ...derpy
well i don't think they were going for a dramatic/artistic shot here, so...
uhm... why the center is bad? photographers and painters have had using center line since the beginning of art, it's not bad by any mean. And btw the rule of third is mediocre, unbalanced, and uninteresting, just stop using it
How do I apply the golden ratio while I take pics?
Take out your calculator, apply it to your hand held Golden Rule guide and then................oh wait, it's too late you've missed the moment.
Okay? I don't care for any rude people.
ImaGhostSE It doesn't have to be exact, especially not immediately as you take the picture with a digital camera. As long as you have a general idea of where things might line up your good for that. For more accuracy, try cropping the photo-later- after you have taken the shot.
Some good cameras actually have indicators within the viewfinder which align with the golden ratio instead of the rule-of-thirds. Pentax, for instance.
The K-3 indicators for the AF points indicate the Golden Ratio within a golden rectangle [not the 1:1.5 frame]. The SF1/SFx has the width of the focus indicator LEDs at the bottom of the frame be the same as the width of the lines within a golden rectangle also. (Not sure about the side indicators). Other cameras may have something similar.
So which grid should I put my finger in?
"The main complaint with the Rule of Thirds is that it can look too obvious, where as the Phi Grid makes photos appear more natural and less rigid." Well, yeah, when one subject is a rocky coast, and the other is a fence whose man-made lines follow the RoT grid perfectly, haha. Let's see the Golden Ratio version of that fence picture side-by-side with the one used in the example.
I learned somthing today. Thanks DNews!
I'm surprised I've never heard of either of these techniques.
I sorry a picture is a fucking picture to me. I could care less about there the center point on an object's focus could be.
That's because you're a moron.
as a person that is getting a degree in computer graphics and design, this comment was very painful to read.
Couldn't* care less.. I'm not trying to be a grammar nazi, that's just the one that hits the nerve lol, I have even seen shirts say "could". When the whole idea is that they couldn't.. care less.
Gilbert Flowerface just get over it. some people say "could" and others say "couldn't."
damn, I'm surprised by all the hate you're getting.
Watching strange mystery's episode on the golden ratio made like no sense to me as there was no true explanation of what the ratio had to do with all the pictures shown, but in the short 1:45 of this video I learned that which strange mysteries had me confuse.
So you mention a Canon product by name but you don't have a link to it anywhere in the video nor the description. Smooth.
Use Both as well as rectangle of rebatment.
Photograghs have only been around for 174 years. The rule of thirds was use in painting though for hundreds of years.
I like the rule of thirds better, its so much more simple to understand. lol
Great explanation
I didn't even know about this but I have been doing it.
Tool is the greatest band ever.
tommy Long do you know the pieces fit?
ABC (accuracy+brevity+clarity) is also a good ‘Rule of thirds’ when attempting to deliver information and remain succinct, interesting and informative, sorry but I could only hack one third of this due to the high-speed waffle.
This is an invitation to see a theory on the nature of time! In this theory we have an emergent uncertain future continuously coming into existence relative to the spontaneous absorption and emission of photon energy. In this process we even have an objective reason for the start of the Fibonacci numbers 0, 1, 1,... with the t = 0 and the positive +1 and negative -1 representing the positive and negative of electromagnetic waves with everything being based on one geometrical process. In this theory the future is not random it is based on a process of spherical symmetry forming and breaking. Spherical symmetry forms the low entropy that we see if we look back in time at the ‘big bang’ and also forms the potential for ever greater symmetry formation that we have in cell life with the Fibonacci spiral being visible almost everywhere in nature! This is because if the quantum wave particle function Ψ or probability function is reformulated as a linear vector then all the information I have found says that each new vector is formed by adding the two previous vectors together this forms the Fibonacci Sequence 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144, ∞ infinity!
Hey DNews, here's a question: Which comes first, the sponsor, or the video topic?
I really don't like the rules... I just try to make the shot look nice.
the golden ratio does not restrict creative freedom just like the chromatic scale in music does not
In response to each one, you should ask, "Why is it so?"
I reckon each one is nonsense. Ansel Adams is reputed to have said, "There are no rules in photography, just good photographs." I myself have seen highly effective photograph were both notions were purposefully set aside. If they don't apply all the time, then they are not rules.
Top left is what we were taught in advertising ..top left being focal point
The Golden Ratio is the same thing that people also like to refer to as God's Fingerprint. As they said in the videos it is a spiral measurement that is so precise & can be found all over the universe.
Nicely covered
It takes million light years for me to understand
This whole video was shot on golden ratio camera lens, no doubt people got instant attraction!
Fibonacci's Sequence
I didn't actually know what those gridlines were but thats cool
but they seem overcomplicated
Along with photography, understanding the Golden Ratio can allow you to make steel balls spin like crazy in your hand or, if you're riding a horse with stirrups, you can access the infinite energy contained between dimensions.
ORA!ORA!ORA!ORA!ORA!
Could you make a video about the Fibonacci in nature?