Finding random rules of thirds

Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature. – Eric Hoffer

The lesson this past week was to discover the Rule of Thirds.  This tried and true method supposedly helps capture points of interest in pictures.  Following the rule, the object of interest intersects in one of four places on the photo.  Imagine two horizontal lines and two vertical lines intersecting to break the picture up in nine even boxes.  The trick is to line up the focus of the camera so you follow the rule instead of always placing the object in the center.

Instead of trying to see if I could do the lesson this week, I looked back at all my "spectacular" pictures (i.e., What I thought were spectacular at the time I was taking them.) taken over the past few months to see if I had unintentionally been able to follow the rule or not.

I wonder if it is natural to want to capture photos of subjects following the rule of thirds or is that where the creative photos come from?  Is that how one makes their photos truly more interesting?  Or is it simply random luck?  Now that is more interesting to me...random great photos.  If you know anything about photography, you have to take TONS of pictures to get very few great pictures.   It becomes a matter of introducing some order in to the randomness of life.

Thanks for stopping by ~ enjoy your moments of ordered randomness!  Next week's lesson to discover diagonal lines.

Dessy definitely fills up a third or more
of a clothes basket. 

Zoom in and her nose becomes a point of interest

Copper stands out sort of in this picture, but
I centered him.

Here I placed him in a better point of interest

The fork stands out in this placement.

A bunch of apples

Zoom in a little more, still see mostly apples.

Zoom in even more...now do you see the stem as the
focal point?

The red car intersects at a point of interest,
plus it is a really cook car...add that to my
wish list!

Both of Dessy's faces intersect the rule
of thirds!

Once again, she is filling a space.  Her nose intersects
properly, but she consumes a lot of the picture

Here's a bit more interesting placement, don't you
wonder what she's looking at that might
draw her out of the box?

Perfect intersection of thirds!
You see the moon is the
subject of the picture right...?