Composing Your Picture Using The Rule Of Thirds

Video Transcript

" Hello I am Chris Conklin on behalf of expertvillage.com. Okay, now let us talk a little bit about framing your picture and making your picture look good. The first thing I want to talk about is something that is known as the rule of thirds. Now what you are doing basically on that is that you are putting tick-tack-toe grid across your screen or call it lines, two lines down and two lines cross. Now, you have four points where those lines meet each other. Okay, that is a third portion of the screen, it is the top portion or the lower portion and third. You want to make sure that the plain or the thirds, the lower, the middle and the high or the right, the middle and the left match up correctly in the thirds aspect. So, the line that goes across the top or your upper third that is where the highlight of your subject or your particular aspect that you are filming needs to hit in your picture. If it is off center then the natural view or the eye will view that picture in its incorrect form. If you want to capture somebody’s eyes you want to make sure that it hits their eyes, so that the natural function of the look when somebody looks at the picture, it draws directly into what you are looking for. Now, there is center, there is off-centered right and off centered left. You are looking at me on a left one-third aspect if you cut screen across and down so and so. Okay, you are going to see that it complements all my accessories that are on the table plus one of my strobe lights that is sitting in the background as well. You want to make sure that there is a good fill of objects or scenery to fill the object. If you got rule of thirds under control, a lot of your pictures are going to be a lot more appealing and it is going to look a lot better. Now, if you have to shoot a center on picture, try to avoid having your subject completely flat to the picture. It creates no substance and does not give you any depth or it does not capture a better feeling, what you typically want to do is you want to have your subject at an angle or tilted somehow. That way, it gives you more feeling and it can put the mood, it can put the personality or can put attitude into the picture. "