Tessa's Tips… little tips about art, creating it, and enjoying it….. tips 1-5

The rule of thirds.... when composing a picture you typically want your subject to be in thirds... my camera has a nifty little option where I can put lines on my LCD screen to divide it into thirds, looks like a tick tack toe board. When I play with depth of field, the area of my picture that is in focus I place in one of the intersecting points of those dividing lines, but the camera likes to auto focus in the middle, so I focus, then hold my button half way down to move the subject in the picture to where I want it, then snap the picture. Using the rule of thirds works well with drawings and paintings too.

My purple swamp here I used the rule of thirds throughout the whole picture, just about everything in it can be divided into thirds. I don't always use this rule, but it works well with composition.

It is more difficult, but I like my results better when I use the rule of thirds. It's an old art rule, but I learned it from a few artists that have made it big :-) I think they teach it in art schools, but the most schooling I've received in art was in junior high and a semester in high school and that was it. Everything else I've learned on my own, or by asking successful artists.

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