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Challenge: Rule of Thirds III (Basic Editing)
Camera: Panasonic DMC-FZ50
Location: My Living Room
Date: Apr 22, 2007
Aperture: f2.8
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/60
Galleries: Humorous, Macro
Date Uploaded: Apr 22, 2007

Marbles form the numbers 1, 2, 3

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Place: 372 out of 380
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Avg (commenters): 2.3333
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Views during voting: 221
Votes: 165
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05/02/2007 04:03:43 PM
Positives??????:
I have a rule that if there isn't anything positive I can say about an image then I shouldn't say anything at all. That is the case with this image. But you have asked and we talked about your photography and I know you want to do better, so I will just tell it like it is.

Technicals:
Outside that there are no seriously over or underexposed areas in the picture, there is little that is technically good about it. Color noise is a problem, sharpness is off and much needed post processing looks to be non-existent. The choice of subject and arrangement are probably boring or amature-ish looking to most voters. The digits aren't even properly arranged.

The Challenge:
More bad news. This complete fails to meet the challenge. You'll need instruction to learn more about the rule of thirds. Hopefully you can get into a Photoshop 101 class or get other mentoring to learn about it.

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The Rule of Thirds Example:
My entry in the rule of thirds challenge scored HORRIBLY, but it is a better example of rule of thirds than most of the other entries:



Notice that the center of the clover is offset to the lower left side. If you measured it accurately you will see that the centerpoint of the clover is exactly 1/3rd the way across the image from the left edge to the right and also 1/3rd the way up from the bottom to the top. That is called the lower left rule of thirds intersection point and is a very powerful compositional tool. There are three other equally powerful rule of thirds intersection points you could use in your compositions.

What makes this particularly strong for the rule of thirds is the clover's leaves accurately branch in an eye catching set of spokes from the lower left rule of thirds intersection point and the clover is the main subject of the composition.

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Suggestions:
Through mentoring DPCers will be able to help you to work on your photography for more satisfying submissions in future challenges. :)

Message edited by author 2007-05-02 16:07:19.
 Comments Made During the Challenge
04/30/2007 08:35:21 AM
Sorry but this image just isnĀ“t sharp enough and has too much noise in it for my taste, image quality is just not up to par.
04/27/2007 08:10:44 AM
The subject takes up the whole frame with no particular thing at the thirds intersection.
04/27/2007 02:43:46 AM
OOF and not RO3rds
04/26/2007 12:39:10 PM
u didn't apply the rule of thirds, all the numbers r equally catching the eye
04/26/2007 05:04:53 AM
You cheeky, you.
04/25/2007 05:14:11 PM
I think you needed to sharpen up the picture a lot more.
04/25/2007 10:35:08 AM
Using a smaller aperature in order to bring everything into focus would make this image much better for me.


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