I’ve just finished uploading my photos to the new top-secret website that will be launched in October by the Woodland Trust and it’s partners. In the meantime whilst you’re waiting for the site to go live and for me to tell you what it is you’ll have to look at their current website for more details:
http://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/en/our-woods/Pages/wood-details.aspx?wood=4935&site=Brachers-Wood
Just as a taster, here are a couple of photos that I took:
Well, they’re a conservation charity that plan over 500,000 trees each year! They are currently restoring over 100 ancient woodland sites in the UK and all of their 1000+ woods are free to visit!
For more information check their website: www.woodlandtrust.org.uk
The rule of thirds is a great way of taking fantastic photographs! The idea goes back to the late 1700′s so it’s not a new idea but one that has worked well over the years for paintings and in more recent times, photography.
The idea is that you split the photograph you’re about to take in to thirds, both horizontally and vertically (some digital cameras have these lines as a setting) and it should look something like this:
The dots indicate the best place to put the subject of your photo, so if you’re taking a photo of a person, instead of putting them in the centre of a photo you should put them where one of the fours dots is.
Give it a go and you’ll soon see that you’ll get some better more interesting photos.
One thing to remember is that rules are meant to be broken! If you want to put the subject of your photograph in the centre then do so! The human eye also likes things that are symmetrical so there’s nothing wrong with putting the subject in centre and completely ignoring the rule of thirds!
The whole idea of this rule is to simply give you another option of taking a great photo, but at the end of the day you should take photos how you like.
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