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New Camera – Rule of Thirds

Rule of Thirds - ©TimeLine Media

Composition Rules

Have you taken a few hundred photos with your new camera yet? Well it has been almost three days since Christmas – what are you waiting for? Keep taking all the photos you can with it to get more comfortable with how it works. You want to be able to pick it up and have it fire off a photograph quickly so you do not miss anything unexpected that may come along. But as you it becomes apparent that everything works, you may start think how to make your photos better. I still would not even change any of the settings on the camera. I would first concentrate on composition. This is something I have to do at every shoot, and it changes with each subject, each scenario, and each scene. No matter how good you are technically at making photographs, if the composition of the image is poor, then you do not have an image that you will like, or that other people will want to view and share.

Restaurant portrait - ©TimeLine Media
Restaurant portrait – ©TimeLine Media

Rule of Thirds

One of the first composition rules that photography students study is the “Rule of Thirds”. Using the viewfinder camera as your boundary, divide the frame into 3 parts both horizontally and vertically. You end up with a grid that looks like this:

Rule of Thirds grid on a 4x6 frame
Rule of Thirds grid on a 4×6 frame

According to the Rule of Thirds, objects of interest should be placed along the lines that divide the frame into three parts. This includes horizon lines, faces of people, or other objects of interest. Usually they are the main subject of the photograph. You can see here in this photo that I did not follow this rule, and put my main subject right in the middle of the frame. This is one of the reasons that this photo looks more like a snap shot from vacation rather than a professionally setup image.

Restaurant portrait with grid - ©TimeLine Media
Restaurant portrait with grid – ©TimeLine Media

You can see the rule of thirds in many professional photographed still and video images. The news anchors on television may start in the middle of the screen, but they are quickly moved to the left or right third of the screen. This makes for a more pleasing image to the eye – giving the subject more room to breathe in the frame, and more room for your eye to travel in the frame putting your subject in context. These are with people images, but it can work with images of inanimate objects, or in landscape photography as well.

Rule of Thirds - ©TimeLine Media
Rule of Thirds – ©TimeLine Media

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Canvas Prints – Tech Thursday

©TimeLine Media - hanging prints in living room

For customers visiting the new TimeLine Media proofing website, I try to give lots of options for displaying your photos. For hanging on the wall, I prefer canvas prints compared to framed paper prints. The presentation of the image is very modern. Without the frame or matting, there is no other decoration surrounding the canvas. The wall that the canvas is hanging on becomes the backdrop, helping to pop the image even more. Here is an example of a display of prints in the living room:

©TimeLine Media - hanging prints in living room
©TimeLine Media – hanging prints in living room

Printing on Canvas

These four prints are each 20 x 20 in size. As a recommendation I would not hang any image smaller than 11 x 14 on the wall. Many think that an 8 x 10 is sufficient, but for me, it would be too small to appreciate anywhere but up close. The larger prints allow the images to be a focal point in the room as soon as one enters. On the website, I do offer 8 x 10 canvas prints in case it will hang in a small space, or hallway, or if you want to put a collection of them together against a wall. I would be happy to discuss with you about how displaying your prints as a single or collection would work for your wall space. I enjoy working on a collection like this one in a while.

Additionally, here are some detail images of these prints. They arrive well-packed from the lab to your home ready-to-hang! They are mounted with a wall hanger and bumpers on the back of the print to prevent any damage to paint on your walls.

Canvas wall hanger
Canvas wall hanger
Canvas wall bumper
Wall bumper on the back of a canvas print

Canvas prints can be made in most popular image sizes, but custom dimensions can be made too! The image is printed directly onto canvas, and is wrapped around a wooden frame. Sometimes the image can be made to wrap around the edge, or it can be wrapped with an edge of black, white or any custom color. These were wrapped on white edges.

Canvas edge detail
Canvas edge detail

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