Rule of Thirds

In this lesson, I have been assigned to talk about the Rule of Thirds and Framing. I have done some research as to what they both are and will be analysing the two.

The Rule Of Thirds

When using the rule of thirds, photos are often split into three using imaginary lines. Two vertical and two horizontal making nine sections. It helps tighten up the composition.  The way you set this up on a camera is by going to the settings until you see grid display. This will guide you and make it easier to take photographs using the Rule of thirds. There are normally, four red dots called power points and they are the most important part of the picture. For example; if you were taking a photograph of a person you would have to make sure that the persons eyes are in line with the horizontal line. Using this effect can also help a picture look more quirky and interesting or fun and exciting. Here are a few images I took myself using the Rule of thirds.

Framing

Framing is used to keep the viewers focus on the Framed Object. It can be used to direct attention or just help with focusing whether everything else is blurred and one thing is in focus or can just be an object, acting like an actual picture frame to frame another object. It gives images a little more context, Adds a sense of depth and layer and also intrigues the viewers. After experimenting, here are some of my final pictures..

This image was taken through my blinds of the City. The blinds being in silhouette, help frame the view and guide your eyes directly to the city scape. This is quite a quirky effect and I have used this method in previous work as it makes images look really intriguing. 

I went out to the City and discovered this amazing architecture. They were frames, within frames and more frames. The idea is, when you look up at the very last triangle in the ceiling you can see the sky and clouds above. However, as this was taken at night it is quite difficult to find what it is you are trying to focus on. However the whole idea of the design being frames within frames was quite different and definitely had me interested. 

This is a picture I took when I was on my way to work in the snow. Now although there is no framing, there is still a guide to focusing meaning it can relate to framing. I focused on the rain drops on the window of the car as we drove and made the background a blur, to help viewers focus on the rain more despite it being extremely transparent. This was a challenging, but I wanted to challenge myself. Rather than just focusing on the background I tried to reverse it and get viewers to focus on what is least visible in the image. 

In this picture, I used darkness and light. I used darkness to frame the Sky. By having a picture as diverse as this, it is easy to be guided and focus on the sky straight away. Not only does having a dark picture guide light make it look dynamic but it helps frame magnificently. 

I am not too sure this is my best example of framing but it is one shot I took when visiting the wild park. I saw this view and it was restricted by a metal sign. I thought in a way it uses the effect of framing as it blocks the view as we try to direct our visions more onto the scenery in the back. But this also is something I took just to experiment with. 

This was taken using a fish eye lens. Fish eye lenses also help frame an image using a circular shape on the edges of the photograph. Some fish eye lenses are not actually visible like this one in the above picture where it is black. Instead, the edges of the picture in a circular shape tend to be blurred. This is just like a picture frame, but can be accomplished through the camera lens instead.