| Author | Thread |
|
|
12/15/2013 06:23:03 PM · #1 |
Ok -- I get the whole spiraly thing, but it's not all about spirals. Yet when it comes down to it, it seems like any of the examples posted in the photography "lessons" on the web seem to be: make it fit the grid however you want.
Sometimes they put the important thing on the crosshairs, sometimes between the lines, sometimes above it, sometimes below it. It seems like I can throw any picture in and say it fits according to half of the examples on the web. If you're not taking a photo of a nice spiraly thingy, is anyone else having difficulties with this one?
And the previous entries seem to go more with the golden spiral vs the golden ratio. The golden ratio seems more of a modified rule of thirds, the golden spiral seems more difficult to fit.
suggestions? Anyone understanding this? |
|
|
|
12/15/2013 06:28:52 PM · #2 |
| I understand the question all too well. Unfortunately I have no answers. I'm not sure what they are after either. |
|
|
|
12/15/2013 06:31:02 PM · #3 |
I wonder if anyone actually will use a diagram on the monitor when they vote...
I just used my heart and entered something thinking it's the challenge subject ... words of a failure! |
|
|
|
12/15/2013 06:36:29 PM · #4 |
| I used the golden ration to crop in LR. Composition also seemed very different then the golden spiral. |
|
|
|
12/15/2013 06:38:37 PM · #5 |
Originally posted by FocusPoint:
I wonder if anyone actually will use a diagram on the monitor when they vote... |
It happens quite a lot lately!
Originally posted by FocusPoint:
I just used my heart and entered something thinking it's the challenge subject ... words of a failure! |
This is the right path IMO :) |
|
|
|
12/15/2013 06:44:40 PM · #6 |
| screw the grid. use the force. |
|
|
|
12/15/2013 06:50:54 PM · #7 |
| It's basically the rule of thirds, that's how I'll be voting, 'golden ratio' just sounds more 'intellectual'. |
|
|
|
12/15/2013 07:00:07 PM · #8 |
I don't know, I think quite a few of your comps would do well in the golden ratio challenge.
You know how some people see numbers in everything, well if you're looking for it the Fibonacci sequence appears in nature all the time. The thinking is, I think, that if your composition uses the Fibonacci sequence, also known as the golden ratio, it will be as naturally powerful as the arrangement of seeds in a sunflower or the curve of a nautilus shell. That's my take on it, anyway.
But, & there is always a big but, how do you keep the voters here happy? I would think the easiest way is to photograph something that has obvious qualities of the golden ratio, like a nautilus shell. Something that is an obvious natural example of the golden ratio. The keyword is obvious, obviously. |
|
|
|
12/15/2013 07:09:09 PM · #9 |
Originally posted by pixelpig:
I don't know, I think quite a few of your comps would do well in the golden ratio challenge.
You know how some people see numbers in everything, well if you're looking for it the Fibonacci sequence appears in nature all the time. The thinking is, I think, that if your composition uses the Fibonacci sequence, also known as the golden ratio, it will be as naturally powerful as the arrangement of seeds in a sunflower or the curve of a nautilus shell. That's my take on it, anyway.
But, & there is always a big but, how do you keep the voters here happy? I would think the easiest way is to photograph something that has obvious qualities of the golden ratio, like a nautilus shell. Something that is an obvious natural example of the golden ratio. The keyword is obvious, obviously. |
yes i wonder how many more spiral staircases/shells, etc we will see in this challenge!! I had something that would of scored higher, but found It utterley boring! So i withdrew it.
Message edited by author 2013-12-15 19:09:53. |
|
|
|
12/15/2013 07:24:32 PM · #10 |
 vawendy's portfolio is fun to browse thru. This is another obvious (to me) golden ratio shot. Perhaps the proportions of the chair also follow the golden ratio.
I expect a subject that illustrates the golden ratio will win out over a composition that does.
|
|
|
|
12/15/2013 07:33:30 PM · #11 |
Ooo I googled 'golden ratio chair design' found some odd furniture.
|
|
|
|
12/15/2013 07:52:20 PM · #12 |
Originally posted by Tiberius:
I used the golden ration to crop in LR. Composition also seemed very different then the golden spiral. |
OK so I went shooting today and just signed up for CC with Lightroom recently (haven't taken any images into PS or LR though). Should I look into this? Could I do so in the next couple of hours? Can anyone give me any tips to reduce the LR learning curve? |
|
|
|
12/15/2013 08:21:39 PM · #13 |
Originally posted by skewsme:
screw the grid. use the force. |
Yup. +100 |
|
|
|
12/15/2013 08:47:55 PM · #14 |
Originally posted by tanguera:
Originally posted by skewsme:
screw the grid. use the force. |
Yup. +100 |
So I should force it?
Ok!! ;) |
|
|
|
12/15/2013 08:54:08 PM · #15 |
Originally posted by skewsme:
screw the grid. use the force. |
Magnify the force. Use the shoehorn! |
|
|
|
12/15/2013 08:59:16 PM · #16 |
I don't know if I magnified the force, used the shoehorn or actually got the golden ratio but I am in! Entry 50 for 2013! That is thats all for this year! Unless of course I enter another!!
Message edited by author 2013-12-15 20:59:44. |
|
|
|
12/15/2013 11:26:12 PM · #17 |
Originally posted by Enlightened:
I don't know if I magnified the force, used the shoehorn or actually got the golden ratio but I am in! Entry 50 for 2013! That is thats all for this year! Unless of course I enter another!! |
Congratulations, but ...there are still sixteen more shopping shooting days until New Year's ... build up some momentum for the Beat Your Yearly Tally side challenge! |
|
|
|
12/16/2013 12:16:42 AM · #18 |
Originally posted by nam:
Originally posted by Tiberius:
I used the golden ration to crop in LR. Composition also seemed very different then the golden spiral. |
OK so I went shooting today and just signed up for CC with Lightroom recently (haven't taken any images into PS or LR though). Should I look into this? Could I do so in the next couple of hours? Can anyone give me any tips to reduce the LR learning curve? |
Wish I had seen this earlier...I'd have been happy to help you out...I've been using Lr for a few years and the Lr5 is a huge improvement over Lr3 (what I had before). As to the Ps CC...I'm still in a wonderland but totally enjoying it 100%!!!
PM me with any questions you have on Lr...(not that I'll know the answers...pfffftttt there's that!!!) |
|
Home -
Challenges -
Community -
League -
Photos -
Cameras -
Lenses -
Learn -
Help -
Terms of Use -
Privacy -
Top ^
DPChallenge, and website content and design, Copyright © 2001-2025 Challenging Technologies, LLC.
All digital photo copyrights belong to the photographers and may not be used without permission.
Current Server Time: 07/25/2025 12:30:24 PM EDT.
