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05/05/2015 10:37:33 PM · #1 |
| Take a photo that uses this "golden rule" of composition. |
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05/05/2015 10:50:46 PM · #2 |
| I know the "golden rectangle" version -- what "rule" is this one? |
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05/05/2015 10:55:44 PM · #3 |
Originally posted by GeneralE:
I know the "golden rectangle" version -- what "rule" is this one? |
It's a diagonally-oriented composition built around golden section proportions:
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05/05/2015 11:33:20 PM · #4 |
Thanks! Is the sweet spot where the unencumbered dots are, the vertices, or somewhere else?
Message edited by author 2015-05-05 23:33:55. |
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05/06/2015 05:32:30 AM · #5 |
Originally posted by GeneralE:
Thanks! Is the sweet spot where the unencumbered dots are, the vertices, or somewhere else? |
Typically, the composition will flow diagonally from corner-to-corner and there will be a second diagonal intersecting that at right angles, OR there will be a dominant diagonal with the subject protruding above/below that diagonal from one of the two intersection points. It's a pretty loose compositional guide, really; sometimes the diagonals are just implied.
Confusingly, there's an actual "golden triangle" which is an isosceles triangle whose base is half the length of its sides:
Note that this triangle is the implied isosceles triangle that repeats inside a pentagram, and gives us the geometry of DaVinci's famed "Vitruvian Man":
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I'm not even sure which one the OP is suggesting we use... |
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05/06/2015 07:43:23 AM · #6 |
I was referring to the composition rule for photography, not the mathematic one.
It's like rule of thirds, but for images with a diagonal element. You frame up your subject either along one of the diagonals, or in one of the triangles.
Further, you can use it as a quick visual aid to figure out where the phi grid sweet spots are (or "golden rectangles").
I was thinking of the triangle for framing, though, as a challenge.
It is a composition technique I rarely use, just because rule of thirds is easier for me to visualize. But I want to improve at it. Thought perhaps, others would find it challenging as well. |
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05/06/2015 12:48:03 PM · #7 |
| The mathematic one is what makes the photographic one??? They are one in the same applied to photography??? |
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05/06/2015 01:12:42 PM · #8 |
Sort of- they are based off of the phi number... Can't remember exact digits but 1.6 something.
The pentagram triangle is often used in drawing. |
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