Ok, now that you have a subject of interest, where do you place that subject within your frame?

Ok, now that you have a subject of interest, where do you place that subject within your frame?

When we look at an image, our eyes tend to naturally go to these four areas of the frame.

By breaking our frame into thirds, horizontally and vertically, we create a grid with intersecting points where your eyes naturally tend to look.

http://digital-photography-school.com/blog/rule-of-thirds/

3. Compose your image using the Rule of Thirds.

Get your subject away from the center of your frame.Try placing important elements at an intersecting point on the grid.

http://digital-photography-school.com/blog/rule-of-thirds/

http://digital-photography-school.com/blog/rule-of-thirds/

http://photospot2004.blogspot.com/2004/07/rule-of-thirds.html

http://photospot2004.blogspot.com/2004/07/rule-of-thirds.html

http://photospot2004.blogspot.com/2004/07/rule-of-thirds.html

http://photospot2004.blogspot.com/2004/07/rule-of-thirds.html

http://photospot2004.blogspot.com/2004/07/rule-of-thirds.html

Avoid putting horizontal or vertical elements directly in the middle of the frame.

Avoid putting horizontal or vertical elements directly in the middle of the frame.

If the sky is your main focus, move the horizon down low.

If the sky is your main focus, move the horizon down low.

If the water or ground is your main focus, move the horizon up high.

Golden Spiral

There should be something, leading the eye to the center of the composition. It could be a line or several subjects. This "something" could just be there without leading the eyes, but it will fulfill its purpose anyway.

Golden TriangleIt's more convenient for photos with diagonal lines. There are three triangles with corresponding shapes. Just roughly place three subjects with approximate equal sizes in these triangles and this rule will be kept.

There’s something unsettling about a photograph of a moving subject that is too close to the edge of the frame. It feels as if the subject is going to walk right out of the image.

The same thing happens if someone is staring at something outside of the frame.

Lead your subject. Give your subject some space to move into…

Lead your subject. … and somewhere to look.