The Rule Of Thirds

 The Rule Of Thirds

The rule of thirds is a grid, much like a naughts and crosses grid, which acts as a guide for a photographer to take a picture with adding more composition and depth. To follow the rule of thirds you have to pick your focal point and place one of the intersecting points of the grid over your focal point.

Here is a good and bad example of the use of the rule of thirds:

As you can see, this is a bad example of the rule of thirds as it is unclear where the focal point of this photograph is. Also the intersecting points aren't place over anything in particular.

This is a good example of the rule of thirds, this is evident as the focal point in quite clearly Hayley who is sitting on the grass, and the intersecting point is neatly placed over her head.