it is a statistical rule really. Something on the lines of '9 out of 10 cats
prefer Kit-e-Kat'.
It appears to be true that people prefer pictures which have certain
geometrical patterns, subject matter and so on. Consequently people who
produce pictures are likely to be more successful (however that is measured)
if they are aware of these preferences, and make use of them. This could be
by deliberately flouting them in some circumstances.
I read somewhere recently, and I will try to trace the reference, that most
people prefer a landscape picture, seen from a strategic vantage point such
as the top of a valley, which includes a river and some kind of animals or
wildlife in the distance, with a heroic human figure in the middle distance,
on a third.
That may not be an absolutely accurate description, but it captures the
gist.
I think it's time for Thomas ("Painter of Light") Kincade to get his brushes
out.
--
Cheers,
Bob
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jens Bladt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: 13 May 2005 18:11
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: RE: Rule of thirds? Was Re: PESO: Smoke 'Em If You Got 'Em
>
> 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/phi2DGe
> omTrig.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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