golden section more a quick engineering approximation, like using 3.14 for Pi.
Jens Bladt wrote:
Of course there are no rules. You may take pictures anyway you like. Hoewver, many people find images that are composed according to the golden section pleasing.
If a line is devided into two parts - a and b - and the relation between "a" and "b" is: a/b = b/a+b. Then the line is devided according to the golden section.
I believe the "rule of thirds" is some kind of a "poor mans golden section". It's not quite the same.
http://www.ewersarchitecture.com/golden_section.htm http://www.mcs.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/R.Knott/Fibonacci/phi2DGeomTrig.html#ph i2D
I have once read that scientist have shown, that what most people regard as a "pretty face", is actually "constucted" from pentagons, which are "in the golden section family". In nature many things are "constructed" from pentagons as well.
When photographing I use this relation all the time - no matter if I wnat to or not. This "rule" is in fact embeded in my spine after half a century of taking pictures.
Jens Bladt mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hjem.get2net.dk/bladt
-----Oprindelig meddelelse----- Fra: frank theriault [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sendt: 12. maj 2005 04:51 Til: [email protected] Emne: Re: Rule of thirds? Was Re: PESO: Smoke 'Em If You Got 'Em
On 5/11/05, UncaMikey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
<snip> From what I have read on PDML, I think I may be headed for some sort
of
mental breakdown,
If you're here, the breakdown has likely already happened.
being a big fan of both the Theriaultian and the
Belinkoffian modes of seeing. Is my brain about to explode?
No. It will implode (which pretty much amounts to the same thing in terms of post-event brain-functionality).
<vbg>
cheers, frank
-- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson
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A man's only as old as the woman he feels.
--Groucho Marx
