Thank you for the links, they both are very interesting. The divine ratio is one thing I have used in my other life (mathematician and computer scientist) but not in my photography. The article makes some interesting thoughts that I will try to incorporate into some photographs, but as a newbie in this field it will take some time.
@tamaralara Certainly saving the themes list for inspiration, kind of fell in with it by luck, debatable whether today's counts...
I've tried the Fibonacci composition rule before, just keeping it in the back of my head while shooting but unless you're calmly working on arranging a shot it can be pretty tricky to remember it. Though if you have a canon point and shoot you could overlay it with CDHK instead of the standard grid.
*edit* I downloaded the .png of the spiral, tried overlaying it on a few of my images to see how they line up...
@tamaralara Thank you for posting these articles. I'm saving the list of themes for inspiration though I highly doubt I will use the calendar part to plan out the week. I'm just not that organized! :)
@kezzam@hjbenson@killerjackalope@naminstars --Thanks for responding! I am going to save the list as well. It never hurts to have a back-up plan! As far as Fibonacci's Ratio, I am very intrigued but still a bit confused by it! I don't know that I could remember exactly how it works in the middle of a shoot!
@tamaralara I tried keeping it in mind during a gig, it made my head hurt...
I've just got a look through the viewfinder with the image on my screen, I'll knock up a diagram because I can't easily explain how the focus points relate but they could be used as a rough way to remember. If you get the image up and frame it in the viewfinder you'll see what I mean...
Thanks for this idea! I was thinking today what I would do, because I din't have an idea what to shoot... This will help me a lot for new ideas. I won't do it every day of the week, but if possible at least once a week.
Okay, I took the jpg of the phispiral and overlayed the png file ontop, then marked the intersecting points with a dot, deleted the jpg layer and saved it as a new png file. Then I opened up a random photo from my 365 project and overlayed the newly saved file onto it and then recomposed my picture according to the dots (making sense?) and this is what I came up with-
Which is more appealing? Does it work? I think it is definetly something that I can use in post processing but I'm not sure how much I would use it during actual shooting.
Thank you so much for all of this advice and links! I needed this today. I am beginning to struggle. I have ideas, but I do not have all of the skills and knowledge I need. When I struggle, it is tempting to quit. Now, I feel like I can keep going on and growing. Onward!
i dont like to crop pics if i dont have to. so it would be a challenge for me to think about it while taking photos.. but def something to try . thanks for sharing
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I've tried the Fibonacci composition rule before, just keeping it in the back of my head while shooting but unless you're calmly working on arranging a shot it can be pretty tricky to remember it. Though if you have a canon point and shoot you could overlay it with CDHK instead of the standard grid.
*edit* I downloaded the .png of the spiral, tried overlaying it on a few of my images to see how they line up...
I've just got a look through the viewfinder with the image on my screen, I'll knock up a diagram because I can't easily explain how the focus points relate but they could be used as a rough way to remember. If you get the image up and frame it in the viewfinder you'll see what I mean...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tama_turtle/5364119833/
Which is more appealing? Does it work? I think it is definetly something that I can use in post processing but I'm not sure how much I would use it during actual shooting.
Here's an example of what I did-
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tama_turtle/5364158913/
i dont like to crop pics if i dont have to. so it would be a challenge for me to think about it while taking photos.. but def something to try . thanks for sharing